Posted on 04/20/2020 9:39:35 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that his social media platform will endeavor to assist the country’s overreaching governors by banning all posts that seek to organize and support demonstrations protesting stay-at-home orders and other efforts by governors and mayors to shred the Bill of Rights in the name of fighting a virus.
From a Breitbart article on Zuckerberg’s proclamation:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that posts and pages attempting to organize protests against stay-at-home orders will be banned as “misinformation.”
The Facebook CEO confirmed that the posts would be banned to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on a segment of Good Morning America.
Stephanopoulos asked Zuckerberg how the company deals “with the fact that Facebook is now being used to organize a lot of these protests to defy social distancing guidelines in states. If somebody trying to organize something like that, does that qualify as harmful misinformation?”
“We do classify that as harmful misinformation and we take that down,” confirmed Zuckerberg, while at the same time saying that it’s important “that people can debate policies.”
A Facebook spokesman confirmed to CNN that planned protests in California, New Jersey, and Nebraska were having their pages removed from Facebook at the request of state authorities.
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Note that part about “…at the request of state authorities.”
Thus does Facebook, a social media platform supposedly designed to facilitate communication between its millions of users now become a tool for the state to use to deny its users’ first amendment rights. Granted, Facebook is a privately-held company that is perfectly able to and well-known for banning speech of which its uniformly leftist moderators do not approve, but it is now making a leap to the banning of speech of which the state does not approve.
That’s a whole different kettle of fish right there.
And so we see Facebook join with the corrupt, mainstream media outlets in becoming just another cog in the machinery of the Democrat/media propaganda complex.
You wonder why people hate the media and fear the loss of their individual rights? This announcement by the CEO of the largest social media platform, made on a Disney-owned TV network morning show that is hosted by a pretend journalist who spend much of his adult life serving as a bagman for the Clintons really kind of ties up the reasons all in a neat little package, doesn’t it?
We’re all in this together, comrades.
Facebook will protect you from harmful speach, comrades.
Trust us, good citizens.
My goodness.
That is all.
They can jerk back and forth. It will make no difference at all.
It’s on 24/7 even on Fox News. Everyone is.
Shut fakebook down!
He has always been a prick.
Many many postsf from on the scene. Thousands showed up. A beautiful day in Harrisburg!
Why haven’t these sites been hauled into court for being monopolies???
Time to post more of them and keep re-posting.
“Arrogant and Stupid” will be his epitaph.
BOYCOTT such scum.
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