'STOP THE STEAL' FACEBOOK BLOCKS PRO-TRUMP GROUP ... Concerns of Inciting Violence

TMZ ^

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A Facebook group with more than 300,000 members claiming the election's being stolen from President Trump just got removed ... over growing fears it's stirring violence.

The "Stop the Steal" group began picking up serious steam among Trump supporters over the past 24 hours, and was attempting to organize protests this Saturday around the country, claiming ... "PRESIDENT TRUMP NEEDS US NOW MORE THAN EVER."

Facebook's not having it though, and has shut the group down citing "worrying calls for violence from some members of the group." FB also says the group was "organized around the delegitimization of the election process."

The social media giant says ... "In line with the exceptional measures that we are taking during this period of heightened tension, we have removed the Group 'Stop the Steal,' which was creating real-world events."

As you likely know by now ... Trump and his campaign officials have been very active in opposing the ballot-counting process in several battleground states and vowed multiple lawsuits over it.

There has been some chaos at ballot counting centers in Detroit and Phoenix where some of Trump's most avid supporters have shown up to protest, some of them with firearms.

That might be the "real-world events" to which Facebook was referring, but the move to censor the "Stop the Steal" group will no doubt be a controversial one. The platform's already been blasted for what many, conservatives and others, see as First Amendment violations.

[BigEdLB]

Zuckerf**k is a treasonous bastard

[God luvs America]

there was near 500,000 members when hey pulled the page at noon...and there was no fears of “inciting violence- complete BS!

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

Wow.

[Regulator]

But BLM/ANTIFA doesn’t?

[LibsRJerks]

Makes me SICK!!!

It’s PAST time to go. Time to roll. This is all out suppression of free speech ...Zuckerberg needs to hang from a lamppost!!!

[snarkytart]

knew it

[a fool in paradise]

Now Americans know how it feels when this happens to dissidents in China and Iran.

Despotism (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWSqboZr1w

“A community is low on a ‘Respect’ scale if common courtesy is withheld from large groups of people on account of their political attitudes.”

“...in a downright despotism opposition is dangerous whether the despotism is official or whether it is unofficial...”

“A community rates low on the ‘Information’ scale when the press, radio, and other channels of communication are controlled by only a few people and when citizens have to accept what they are told.”

“See how a community trains its teachers”
“...these students are being taught to accept uncritically whatever they are told. Questions are not encouraged.”

“And if books and newspapers and the radio [and facebook and youtube and...] are officially controlled the people will read and accept exactly what the few in control want them to. Government censorship is one form of control. The newspaper that breaks the government censorship rule can be suspended. It is also possible for newspapers and other lines of communication to be controlled by private interests...”

Democracy (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx25aMPvbJo

“The newspapers of a real democracy meet these tests...”

Newspaper checks.
1. Balance of coverage
2. Disclosure of source
3. Competence of staff

[teletech]

The cancel of conservatives has begun.

[BenLurkin]

#stopthesteal

[a fool in paradise]

Remember that wannabe wrapper who sucker punched a white clerk at a department store in a mall and falsely claimed he was called the n-word?

Fascistbook was OK with his video on his account being up for days with hundreds of black supremacists cheering on the beatdown of an innocent man violently assaulted by a racist playa.

[joma89]

It began decades ago.

JoMa

[Irenic]

They’re shoving Trumps voters into the basement.

The shocking way Anderson Cooper behaved, FOX not giving a rip.

They are getting revenge.

Media/Social Media are silencing us unless we conform.

It really is a coup.

[pollywog]

oh NO... we need to BAN FB!!!!!!!
This needs to get to the Senate and NOW...

[dontreadthis]

this will finish you off:

Mark Zuckerberg paying for election operations, vote counting across U.S.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/oct/29/zuckerberg-paying-election-operations-vote-countin/

[Toespi]

Just the beginning, it will get much more dangerous and that’s because we aren’t stopping it now. Just get on that cattle car, for a nice resort vacation.

[damper99]

Another thing that is going on is that my Comcast email is stripping all the text from the bodies of emails that come from Trump and the GOP. Just started today...I can see the subject line but everything else is missing.

[ThinkingBuddha]

Stop using Facebook, twitter etc, start using gab, parler, minds

[Pollard]

https://mewe.com

Very good replacement for fakebook, minus the fb games. Plenty of conservatives. No censorship and they don’t sell your data or have ads.

[SWAMP-C1PHER]

I want to see this company AND its founder in a thousand pieces!