Posted on 07/09/2019 7:00:06 AM PDT by george76
During this year's Aspen Ideas Festival, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained that Facebook is increasingly trying to work with governments to determine what political speech it does and does not allow. Oh sorry, I mean: what kind of political ads it is willing to approve.
In the particular example Zuckerberg cited, in 2018, American pro-life groups wanted to run advertisements for Facebook users in Ireland. This is because the Irish were about to vote in a referendum on whether abortion should be legalized.
When Facebook saw the ad requests, the company contacted the Irish government asking whether this should or should not be allowed. "Their response at the time was, 'we don't currently have a law, so you need to make whatever decision you want to make.'"
In other words, Facebook could do as it pleased. There was no legal reason to disallow the ads. But what did Facebook do? You guessed it:
"We ended up not allowing the ads."
This is extremely disturbing, but it's very expected. Facebook's top managers have a long history of leftist activism, and it's clear from the company's policies that they're pushing their authoritarian leftist views on the company itself.
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Facebook has truly become a force for authoritarian progressivism -- and it's downright frightening.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Is this true?....Did they do this?.......are they really bragging about it?
It was Northern Ireland right?.....they never wanted abortion on demand......fought against it for years!
I get along fine without ever having been on the site.
Zuckerberg: “So we thought about it and said that there are few enough blacks in Ireland that it might not matter. But the possibility of killing black babies was just too tempting so we advertised to support abortion in Ireland.”
Okay, so Facebook stopped US-funded or paid ads in Ireland, just like we’d likely not want our Irish friends advertising here in the US. That said, did they prevent Irish pro-life groups and people from advertising? That would be a test too far.
Facebbok is a US company. I’ll bet they let in US pro-abortion money in there.
zuck is kissing the a$$ of militant man-hating feminazis.
Cover my eyes and ears
Till it all disappears
How can you judge for me
What I should hear and see
You take away freedom of choice
Take away the right to voice
My beliefs and and all my views
You take away my right to choose
Show me what should I see
Make my mind up for me
Show me what should I see
What should I see
How can you censor my thought
What is right what is not
How is it you decide
What I should feel inside
Quoting god as you discuss
What is right and wrong for us
You inundate us with your views
You take away my right to choose
Show me what should I see
Make my mind up for me
Show me what should I see
What should I see
You take away freedom of choice
You take away my right to voice
My beliefs and all my views
You take away my right to choose
Show me what should I see
Make my mind up for me
Show me what should I see
What should I see
Make my mind up for me
Show me what should I see
He and his crew are despicable.
Frozen Ghost. Nice.
Social media sites are like universities. Democratic propaganda machines.
Just think of what they are going to do to the US election in 2020
Thanks george76.
Trump smiles: Populists defeat globalists in European parliamentary elections
American Thinker | 07/09/2019 | By Robert B. Sklaroff
Posted on 07/09/2019 6:51:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3762645/posts
Ping to Semimojo. We are going to lose every single thing that matters because of your belief that public communications should be controlled by tech giants who have gained control over public communications systems.
All I can do is keep showing you examples of where this is heading in the hopes that you will eventually figure out where this is heading.
A whole pile of folks to add to the CW II target list.
I just created a rule on my home router, blocking ALL facebook traffic. It's not going to go over well, but there's other sites where folks can get their SMAR (Social Media Adrenalin Rush) from.
Good question. Did they block all American sources of ads or just the ones against abortion?
This guy is such a nitwit fascist.
“Okay, so Facebook stopped US-funded or paid ads in Ireland, just like we’d likely not want our Irish friends advertising here in the US”
Ludicrous.
He will be very surprised one day when he realized he does not really control events this way, just as the legacy media were surprised earlier.
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