Posted on 02/21/2017 4:57:38 AM PST by Petrosius
ZANESVILLE, Ohio, February 20, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to use his platform to build a worldwide “inclusive community.” However, a Christian ‘vlogger’ found out there appears to be no room in it for her as long as she quotes Bible passages about homosexuality.
Elizabeth Johnston, aka the “Activist Mommy,” says there is a big disconnect between Zuckerberg’s recent call for a global “inclusive community” and Facebook’s “censorship of Christians.”
“They are muzzling me and my biblical message while Mark Zuckerberg claims that FB is unbiased,” she stated in a news release.
She has had her page frozen three times now, twice in seven days, because of her posts. Last week, she posted her argument that the Bible condemns homosexuality, using Old and New Testament sources. Facebook summarily removed the post and suspended her access to the page. It also stripped her of her ability to respond to private comments for three days.
Once she was unfrozen, she complained about censorship and restored the original blog. Facebook removed it again. She was frozen for another seven days and cut off from her 70,000 followers.
“The post Facebook deleted included no name-calling, no threats, and no harassment. It was intellectual discussion and commentary on the Bible,” Johnston said of her scriptural choices, which were unmistakably strong condemnations of homosexuality.
Johnston has asked Facebook to explain “why the doctrine of tolerance only applies to those who subscribe to Mark Zuckerberg’s Silicon Valley leftist ideology.”
LifeSiteNews has also asked Facebook, which 1.86 billion people use each month, if it will allow discussion of homosexuality at all, or only if the Bible is not cited.
Facebook has not responded to either query.
Johnston says she’s “very appreciative of the platform Facebook gives us to promote family values.” She told LifeSite she could understand being censored “if I were threatening people or posting slander. But this is a classic case of censorship of Christians and our First Amendment rights to free speech.”
Facebook states that it “removes hate speech, which includes content that directly attacks people based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation … ”
Johnston acknowledges that she depends on Facebook’s unequaled access “to connect with my supporters.” She also acknowledges that Facebook “has the right to set their own rules.” However, she notes that Zuckerberg also claims to be unbiased.
Last year, Gizmodo published the claims of a former Facebook staffer that co-workers “routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential ‘trending’ news section.”
All it takes to be frozen as she has been, Johnston told LifeSite, is for a few “liberal trolls and bullies” to complain.
In response to Facebook’s action, Johnston said she has joined a new rival site, Andrew Torba’s Gab. Torba has himself been frozen by Facebook censors and is offering his platform as a “free speech alternative to Twitter, to Facebook, to Reddit.”
Torba told Breitbart the Gizmodo affair prompted him to start Gab. According to spokesman Utsav Sanduja, it has 150,000 members and a waiting list of 400,000.
In Canada and most of Europe you can get arrested for quoting the bible in Church. At least Facebook isn’t the government.
“Imagine that!” - ping.
Snake: “You knew what I was when you picked me up.”
I believe in freedom of speech for all people, religious people to speak their mind about sex and non-religious people to speak their mind about sex.
To paraphrase the Fox News slogan, Facebook and the internet as a whole should be a place where “We post and you decide”.
What is and isn’t a TOS violation there is amazing. Sickenly savage disgusting Muslim atrocities remain up and arent TOS violations. It’s actually “Two Facebook.”
"Inclusive" means actively seeking out every form of defect, degradation, and deviancy, and promoting them as superior to normalcy.
Never used fb and never intend to.....and yet somehow my life goes on without it. Weird.
I don't think Zuckerberg wants to be grilled by the DoJ or Congress on what was discussed at that dinner--a dinner that could end up taking down the biggest tech companies in the Bay Area--Apple, Cisco Systems, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Oracle, Twitter and Yahoo!....
Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.
I quit the site 4-5 years ago as I had my INFO sold by this clown just like Google does. I refuse to use either except one gmail account to set up our phones, 4K UHD TV’s etc.
A leftist lies. I’m shocked, shocked I say!
Color me unsurprised.
FB is such a waste of time.
#9 — Any hints or references to learn more about the event?
The left cannot answer the clear condemnation in God’s Word of what they celebrate, so they shut down speech. Typical.
This is why I don’t do FascistBook.
It seems to be "policed" by a bunch of nerds just out of gym class, wherein they've had their underwear pulled over their noses by the jocks.
I had several run-ins and discovered that they really have no standards, they just react on what pisses them off for that day.
I was banned on several occasions for using the term "mooslimbs", once while describing the piece of porcine offal that shot up the Recruiting Center in Chattanooga.
The only response I got from them was that the allegation of being "muslim" was unproved and my use of the term "mooselimb" violated the Community standards guidelines.
This the whole time that the "community" would have gladly emasculated and lynched any thing remotely thought to be a jihadi "mooselimb".
I terminated my account a long time ago.
I will admit to a couple of fake ones, but those are for laughs and for me to torment the Farcebook dummies and troll the stupid liberal crybabies.
And to be able to respond to some of the absolutely stupid "Letters to the Editor" in most of the liberal newscraps, which have a stupid requirement that responses must be through Farcebook.
Facebook continues to shoot itself in the foot and is opening the door for competition to create an alternative social media that is both conservative and Christian friendly.
The Word of God says “no” to homosexuality in both the New
and the Old Testaments.
Momma always said that she thought it was just a nasty
HABIT that people got addicted to & didn’t want to do any
different.
It takes 21 days to break ANY habit.
If they can sue the cakemaker and win then why can’t we sue facebook and win for the same offense of failure to provide a service due to differences in beliefs?
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