Does this sound like I’m a paid operative of the White House?
No, but once you get the paranoia ball rolling, reason tends to disappear pretty quickly.
creeping government censorship
This isn't government censorship. Facebook isn't the government.
This, and the attempts by the Obama Administration to control news outlets and groups like Facebook and Youtube, should scare the Hell out of people.
Why should I believe that this had anything to do with the Obama administration? Is it just because it seems to follow along with its agenda? From 2001-2008 I saw lots of people zotted for expressing opinion contrary to the agenda of the Bush administration. Was Free Republic a pawn of the White House, or was it just on the same side? Those are different things.
There is another post here that has it right. FB, google and more than a few others are PROXY ca$$h sites (for electronic money) for obamaomau. They are also part of the fascist/corporatist/Statist Left— there is such a thing- we had this prior to WWII- with their cash going to support the “agenda”. Tammany goes internet— that sort of thing.
Couple this with the govt. employees unions and their legions of shadow statist advocates— and you get— a re-election that should not have been. Would not have been, given sharper street smart people running the campaign.
Paranoia starts when one is always afraid. Information, identification, action.... these things reduce fear and hence paranoia. The state often moves to identify paranoia that follows the facts (as oftentimes said even paranoids DO have enemies).
The “shaping” of opinion, whether by the Bushies propaganda (no fan of them here— we got here because of the senior bush dismantling Reagan, and giving us, with help from Perot, the Clintoonians/obamaomaus), OR by the current regime is part of the “ruling” package that comes with regimes. Which is even more reason to discern what the truth is, informed by conservative principles.
Deo Vindice.