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“Flyover Culture” Falls to Facebook’s Partisan Crackdown
https://medium.com/@BWBailey85/flyover-culture-falls-to-facebooks-partisan-crackdown-12b00ef3d5ba ^ | August 12, 2019 | Beth Bailey

Posted on 08/12/2019 6:30:52 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW

With conservative freedom of speech under attack across social media platforms like YouTube, Twitter, and Pinterest, social media giant Facebook has begun directly attacking conservative groups, individuals, and content under the guise of shielding users from false content and hate speech.

Carole Quattro Levine, founder of the Facebook-based conservative media site “Flyover Culture,” is among the latest, but not nearly the first victim of Facebook’s crackdown.

According to Levine, Facebook’s censorship arose after sites such as her own “stunned the political world in 2016” by empowering like-minded conservatives often overlooked by coastal political elites and mainstream media, and thus ushering in the Trump presidency.

“The masters of the universe,” she explained, “have placed their boots on our necks to prevent this from happening again in 2020.”

(Excerpt) Read more at medium.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: censorship; conservative; facebook; fascistbook; markzuckerberg; zuckerberg
The fight against censorship isn't just against leftists but also conservative elites. The reasons given for censoring Carole are extremely lame. The owner of Flyover Culture explains:
"Last month, I was interviewed by Beth Bailey, a writer for The Federalist and Washington Examiner, to discuss the current purge of conservatives on social media."

"Bailey's column was rejected by her editors, ostensibly because nobodies like you and me are considered expendable by establishment media. As a feisty young woman, she self-published the piece."

"Clearly, the lines have been drawn, and it's not simply a "conservative" versus "leftist" issue. It's the establishment against the Great Unwashed. They want to teach us a lesson for voting for Trump in 2016. Fortunately, we are stubborn as hell and won't listen."

MAGA, baby!

~ Carole

1 posted on 08/12/2019 6:30:52 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW
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To: DJ MacWoW

There are solutions. Dissenter is one. Freerepublic is one. Even Twitter is one, to a lesser degree.

And check out “blue collar logic” on youtube. Amazing channel.


2 posted on 08/12/2019 6:45:06 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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To: DJ MacWoW

“”” Facebook-based conservative media site “Flyover Culture,” “””

It’s a facebook page, not a “media site”.

She can get a website if she wants and then just post the mild stuff to facebook that links to HER site.

Trying so use ONLY facebook is putting all your eggs in one sorry ass basket


3 posted on 08/12/2019 6:46:53 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

FreeRepublic should become a ‘for profit’ Conservative Facebook...

With a sightly different name - FRF FreeRepubicFacebook...


4 posted on 08/12/2019 6:48:24 AM PDT by GOPJ (Liberals virtue signal by showing how much crap they can overlook in the black community.)
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To: DJ MacWoW
Remember this famous photo from that private dinner Obama held with tech CEO's in February 2011?

That could become the Wannsee Conference evidence needed to go after the tech companies for violating First Amendment rights.

5 posted on 08/12/2019 6:49:22 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: cuban leaf

>>And check out “blue collar logic” on youtube. Amazing channel.

I hope they mirror to Bitchute. If they’re any good, they’ll get deplatformed from YouTube any time now.


6 posted on 08/12/2019 6:50:03 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: cuban leaf
Echo chambers don't change minds. It is important to blast the truth to leftists, liberals and independents. If it wasn't effective, FB et al would ignore conservative sites. But telling the truth works so they silence it.

My other concern is that "conservative" outlets like the Federalist refused the article. It clearly lays out the bias but since it didn't affect them, they passed on publishing.

7 posted on 08/12/2019 6:50:21 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: RayChuang88

Good gravy I missed that pic! Thanks for posting it.


8 posted on 08/12/2019 6:52:01 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Pollard
What's the point of shouting in an echo chamber? See my Post 7
9 posted on 08/12/2019 6:53:56 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: RayChuang88

Disturbing pic.


10 posted on 08/12/2019 6:54:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: cuban leaf
And check out “blue collar logic” on youtube. Amazing channel.

If it gains any traction, YouTube will shut it down.
11 posted on 08/12/2019 7:05:02 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: DJ MacWoW

Controlling the message is all about what the MSM is doing.
I remember in 2009 I asked some of my CA friends if they were involved in the Tea Party movement.
They had no idea what I was talking about.

If its not covered by the MSM, it never happened.


12 posted on 08/12/2019 8:08:44 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Zathras

Absolutely, unfortunately that also includes some conservative outlets.


13 posted on 08/12/2019 8:13:38 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: DJ MacWoW

My point was, she’s relying on one outlet and that outlet is controlled by the enemy.

That and I was taking issue with a facebook page being called a site. Sure, it’s a set of pages but the term site makes it sound like a website which it is not. With a website, you can make a good backup and if it gets taken down, you can have it back up in a day or three, albeit with a different domain name possibly, depending on who you chose to get your domain name from in the first place.

She should have a website and cross post on the website and facebook with every facebook post having a link to her website. That way if facebook bans her, people know where to find her.

A LOT of people HAD a youtube channel and nothing else and when they got banned by youtube, they effectively disappeared.

All their eggs were in one rotting leftist basket.

yunnastand?


14 posted on 08/12/2019 8:38:03 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: Pollard
Do YOU understand that the "fight" needs to take place on the "enemies" land? IF we concede the field to them, we lose.

A backup site is NOT going to be seen by independents or Democrats. You simply make it the leftists safe space.

15 posted on 08/12/2019 9:01:45 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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