Posted on 01/13/2021 4:43:13 AM PST by MtnClimber
Big tech censorship is out of control and it's getting Orwellian.
It happened in a hurry. The Left is, apparently, attempting to impose the complete destruction of First Amendment rights of roughly half of America’s citizens. In cases large and small, massive multinational corporations with no particular allegiance to the United States are colluding with members of the media and Democratic politicians to permanently silence dissent and cement their own power.
To wit: LeeAnn Miller founded PatrioticMe, an online retailer that sells patriotic clothing items, in September of last year. The business advertised on Facebook and was quite successful from the outset. She donates a portion of every sale to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, a charity founded to honor the sacrifice of New York City firefighter Stephen Siller, who gave his life to save others as a first responder on Sept. 11, 2001. But, on Nov. 4, 2020, the day after the presidential election, she received an email from the Facebook Ads Team informing her that her advertisements did not comply with Facebook's advertising policies or other standards. The subject line of the email stated: "Ad Account Disabled for Policy Violation.” She was stunned.
She assumed the advertisements were disabled in error, so she immediately contacted Facebook and requested a review of her account. She received a second email saying virtually the same thing. After two more requests for a review or explanation, the Facebook Ads Team sent Miller a final notice on Nov. 24 telling her that her restricted account would not be re-enabled. Miller says that she was never able to speak with a live human being. Facebook’s decision has resulted in PatrioticMe losing 94% of its traffic. She believes her ad account was disabled simply because of her products’ patriotic message.
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To the left it is important that they control what you think. You can see their efforts most clearly in the “news” produced by the MSM. Why do they need all of those channels when they all say exactly the same things that aren’t even true?
Thank you, Never-Trumpers. Thank you so much.
They smell blood in the water.
They are being really stupid, they do not want this to go underground. That is how things get really out of hand. Anger is already simmering, they put a cover on the just won’t see it until it boils over.
Government can’t censor you.
But business (and your employer) can.
I’d like to see it more like the Civil Rights Act — neither government nor business can discriminate on the basis of race. I’d like to see Free Speech like that.
I think we should be allowed to say whatever we want without being silenced. And bring back dueling. If I offend you, feel free to slap me with a glove and challenge me.
I look at it this way, back in about 1975 or so, IBM and Hewlett Packard basically told ones like Jobs and Wozniak that people were not going to do their computing from home, so why would they be bothered to develop the Mac personal computer concept with them. Nowadays, Google and Microsoft and Apple and Facebook and Twitter are basically telling people that conservative thought is not necessary, therefore they are not permitting it with their items and infrastructure. That creates an opportunity, doesn’t it?
It’s the DC-GOPe’s fluids that they see and smell.
There are some politicians I would like to censor!
You should throw Amazon in there as well. Heard a news report two days ago that they may have the largest number of servers in the US used in internet transmissions.
They attack us for waging war against them and use that as cover while they wage a war against us. Typical democrat play. I don’t know what else to call this. They’re waging war against us. We’re under siege in our own country. It would be bad enough if this was just the usual democrat vs Republican BS but with the involvement of big tech and communist China, it’s far more precarious imo.
Bttt
“But business (and your employer) can.”
But business cannot ban extreme hairstyles of their employees, so sayeth the courts.
We’re pretty much at the point where your personal expression cannot be questioned — you have a right to your hairstyle. But politics?? Oh, we clamp down pretty hard if you have improper political views.
It’s like we forgot what the First Amendment is about.
Don’t patronize any of the censors and sell stock in them, if you have any.
I’m going to buy as much as I can from Walmart rather than AMZ. Walmart has a 5% off credit card, too. I know, Walmart has CCP ties - but they’re not censoring.
Also using Vudu instead of AMZ video. Vudu has a lot of freebies.
This is just the beginning, this is a communist take over of the USA and I was worried that Patriots would stand idly by but Jan. 6th gave me hope. I was really surprised at the turn out. Needless to say the communist domestic enemies and their occupier of the White house will continue the oppression, our rights will be trashed, we may even be arrested eventually for having opposing views of the state but I think eventually the people and the military will stand up, the military following their oath of enlistment to first and foremost support and defend the constitution against domestic enemies and the shitbags will be eliminated like a bad case of diarrhea.
Wouldn’t it be a shame if a Facebook server farm burned to the ground?
Suckerberg, the guy that looks like Satan (Twitter) and Bozos all need to be executed.
The deceiver knows his time is short.
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