Posted on 04/17/2021 12:58:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Thursday, Facebook decided to censor a New York Post article about Black Lives Matter co-founder, Patrisse Cullors, a "trained Marxist" who has come under heavy criticism for the hypocrisy in her buying a $1.4 million home in a largely white neighborhood. The piece in question, by Isabel Vincent, from April 10, reported that "Marxist BLM leader buys $1.4 million home in ritzy LA enclave."
Facebook used the oft-repeated reasoning of "violating community standards." Specifically, "This content was removed for violating our privacy and personal information policy."
An Inquire piece from Shant Mesrobian and Zaid Jilani confirms the ban is worldwide.
Vincent's piece makes mention of the neighborhood, with pictures, but cites a celebrity real estate blog, and does not list addresses.
In an editorial, the New York Post is adamant they did not share Cullors' personal information:
We reached out to Khan-Cullors for comment before publication; she didn’t respond. After it was posted, her organization put out a statement saying yes, she used to take a salary from BLM but doesn’t anymore, and the money she used to buy property came from her private income for book and development deals. Take the organization’s word for it. We added the response in full to our online article post-publication.
Then she accused us of being “abusive” and putting her at risk.
Our article features some pictures of the properties she bought, but includes no addresses, in fact doesn’t even say the city in some cases. Our reporter compiled the information from public records.
Khan-Cullors’ lawyers apparently got a more sympathetic ear at Facebook, however, and five days after the article was published, it suddenly decided that it clashed with its “community standards.” “This content was removed for violating our privacy and personal information policy,” Facebook writes.
The editorial also highlighted the sheer hypocrisy and double standard:
This decision is so arbitrary as to be laughable. Does Facebook know how many newspapers, magazines and Web sites highlight the real estate purchases of the rich and famous? The next time People magazine covers Kim Kardashian’s latest mansion purchase, will it violate any community standards? How about running a picture of the resort Ted Cruz is staying at?
Rachel Bovard highlights this concern further in her piece for the New York Post, "Progressive figures work hand-in-hand with social media to silence opponents" from Friday afternoon:
Likewise, Facebook made no effort to reduce circulation of a stories containing the illegally leaked details of President Trump’s tax returns, or secretly recorded conversations with Melania Trump.
Information about celebrity home purchases, including sale prices and photos, circulate daily. So, too, do images of revenge pornography, child abuse, and sex trafficking – which Facebook claims before Congress and in court it should not be held responsible.
That’s because Facebook’s content policies aren’t really concerned with privacy, or with protecting personal information. They’re about protecting the politically and culturally powerful by suppressing criticism, punishing dissent, and crushing counter-narratives.
The New York Post wasn't the only one who found the explanation faulty.
Facebook justifying blackholing a news article by saying it's concerned about the unwanted spread of people's personal information is ... something. https://t.co/i8fJ3brfsi— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) April 16, 2021
The New York Post has also had content censored when it comes to publishing a column that the Wuhan Coronavirus could have leaked from a virology lab there, and about the laptop Hunter Biden left at a Delaware computer repair shop. Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, admitted before a Congressional committee that it was "a mistake," in remarks that conveniently came after President Joe Biden had already won the election. He called it "a total mistake," before another committee when President Biden had already taken office.
According to a poll commissioned by the Media Research Center, 9.4 percent of Biden voters would have changed their vote had they been fully aware of the Hunter Biden scandals.
In other words, President Trump could very likely have been re-elected if not for censorship from the mainstream media.
If this was an article about Tiger Woods living in Juniper, Florida, would they censor it? So that’s a stupid argument to make.
What really gets me about communists like the BLM founder, and even globalists in general, is they don’t understand the reason for their actions or their beliefs.
Take your typical, individual communist, or maybe the higher ups in the CCP. Or your average globalist vaccine Nazi or the politician or media person who works for them.
Right there in that person’s mind, in the place only they can go, if they were to look around for the true reason explaining their feelings about the world, they’d come up empty.
If only Je$$e Jack$on or the very reverend Al $harpton had come up with the “race hustle” that this woman Cullors-Khan has come up with. The old race hustlers are kicking themselves because they didn’t come up with the Marxist orientation that the new breed identifies. There is a lot more money in Marxism than being a loyal Democrat it appears. If you remember Je$$e ran for president without much success and I believe White Liberal Guilt had not matured enough for him to gain traction as a candidate.
So 60 Minutes is trashing DeSantis but won’t do a story on these race hustlers? NY Times won’t track the billions of dollars that these crooks are extorting from corporate America?
If proof of the existence of the acquisition by the BLM founder was not given, which was characterized by YouTube as doxing, they would have banned it as un-proven misinformation.
In actuality, YouTube has not effectively censored anything, and has only transferred the hypocrisy and mendacity of the BLM founder’s guilty utterances to themselves. No surprise there.
“New York Post is Censored by Social Media Again for Exposing the Hypocrisy of BLM’s Co-Founder”
New York Post is Censored by ANTISocial Media Again for Exposing the Hypocrisy of BLM’s Co-Founder
There, fixed it
Obama’s push button kids at it again....
Jesse Jackson was born 20 years too early.
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