Posted on 04/16/2020 5:55:35 PM PDT by marshmallow
With coronavirus restrictions forcing the closure of church gatherings worldwide, and authorities threatening to punish those who continue to attend public worship, the Christian church has become more dependent on the internet than ever.
Churches are now employing popular social media and video sharing platforms to conduct their services and broadcast their sermons. But how will the tech giants and social media outlets respond, especially considering their tendency to censor unapproved messages?
Well, it would appear straight-up banning churches isn’t off the table for some platforms, as a church in Moscow, Idaho discovered last week.
On Friday, Google suspended Christ Church’s app from the Google Play store after accusing the pastors of a lack of sensitivity and/or capitalizing on the current coronavirus pandemic.
The church received a notice from the platform, stating: “We don’t allow apps that lack reasonable sensitivity towards or capitalize on a natural disaster, atrocity, conflict, death, or other tragic event.
“Your app has been suspended and removed due to this policy issue,” the notice added.
It’s believed Google was referring to Pastor Douglas Wilson’s short lessons on responding faithfully to the COVID-19 crisis, and Pastor Toby J. Sumpter’s sermon calling God’s people to humble repentance in the face of the pandemic.
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Bump
Google all the social media need to lose a major freedom of speech lawsuit!
When does it start? I’m getting older everyday...
Memo to churches:
Get your own website of start one on Sharefaith.com. If you depend on Google or YouTube to host your sermons, you’re going to regret it. Their tools of the Chinese Communists. Many genuine webhosting companies exist. ShareFaith hosts and makes it easy for the techophobes to host a site.
Other places can host live streaming.
This is just the beginning of the end. . . .as in end times.
Our church has had its own web site for a couple of years.
About a year ago, they developed the capability to go on line to see/hear previously recorded sermons and musical arrangements.
With the shelter and cower in place, the church has had live church services via Face Book and other similar sites as well as our own recorded and eligible to watch services.
We have wondered how long the live services would last.
“And so it begins........”
We’ll see if our Attorney General actually does something about this outrageous attack on the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of religion.
I’m not holding my breath.
Thanks for this suggestion:
Get your own website of start one on Sharefaith.com. If you depend on Google or YouTube to host your sermons, you’re going to regret it. Their tools of the Chinese Communists. Many genuine web hosting companies exist. ShareFaith hosts and makes it easy for the techophobes to host a site.
Other places can host live streaming.
Bkmrk
The tech giants aren’t the only way to have a public voice on the internet. That being the case I don’t worry. It’s good for an organization if they have to work hard to get on the world stage.
google, facebook and twitter are banning ALL information not approved by WHO ... i kid you not!
A little off topic. Churches will be forced to perform Gay marriages very soon
what will it take after political speech is stifled including candidates and now religious speech before the feds stop the oppression of these monopolies.
So, does Lemon feel the same way about AIDS and sodomy ? “Let that be a lesson to Faithful Buggerers ?”
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