My friend
Dr. Mircea and I, when we lived for twenty years behind the Iron Curtain, had all our personal correspondence crudely opened, read, resealed, or
confiscated by special KGB commissars, well trained to destroy freedom of
speech and to silence any opposition to the communist regime.
When I
discovered that, in addition to specific algorithms, Facebook used “fact
checkers” hidden and disguised as “friends,” and when I found thousands of such
fake friends hiding under variants of fact-checker, fact, factoids, and other
spellings, I wrote an article about it describing who these “monitors” for hire were and their lowly $16 per hour pay. These “fact-checkers," who were not necessarily required to have a college education, used as sources of truth
opinion articles written in various leftist newspapers and magazine and not
scientific journals or scientific facts. Thus, I blocked thousands of such “friends."
The very
same day that my article appeared at Canada Free Press, I was restricted for 30
days for a photographic meme which I posted four months before. I could not “go
live” for 30 days. Never mind that I never go live at any time, so the punishment
was ridiculous on its face. The photograph was an actual photo from WWII and the
caption was apropos.
The fact
that my account was restricted, and my freedom of speech curtailed on the very
same day that my article criticizing Facebook “fact-checkers” appeared, proved
my point. I have never believed in
coincidences and I am not about to become a believer now.
After
blocking thousands of “fake friends” under Settings/Privacy/Blocking, and
finding more and more word search combinations and spellings entered in the
rubric Blocking (fakt, fakts, bot, bot check, bot checker, chequ, cheque, fakt-chequers,
chequers, facktoid, factors, factoria, fabrica, fabric, fab, fabr), more fact-checkers
were assigned to my account each day.
What exactly
do I have to say that Facebook finds offensive, threatening, and so in
violation of their liberal “community standards?” Is it the fact that I
suffered under communism for 20 years, with millions of others, I escaped it,
and tried my hardest to expose its tyranny? Is it the fact that the left is
trying to install socialism/communism here in America and we, the survivors of
such a tyrannical regime, are flies in the globalist ointment?
Is truth now
relegated to only what the social media tech giants allow through their Marxist
filters?
Must we be
submissive to the chicom virus, to the Democrat Party, to the Marxist
penetration of public education, social and fake media, and the D.C. swamp who
are attempting to transform our shiny city on the hill into a tarnished, rusty
urban war zone dominated by fear, corruption, and panic driven non-stop by the supine
media and anti-police lawlessness?
How scared
and faceless have Americans become if they wear masks for six months now, deep
into the woods with few other humans around?
Today, like
many other conservative Americans, I have been restricted again on Facebook
because I dared to post a video of a nurse who gave testimony as to what
happened at the Elmhurst Hospital in New York and how many patients died
following placement on ventilators.
How exactly
are we endangering anybody by posting a video that people can ignore or delete?
And how can we be made responsible for its content when we share it? Since when
is social media staffed by medical doctors who can verify that the statements
on the video are dangerous and must be suppressed?
And where is
my freedom of speech, social media? Are you a social platform protecting select
or all individuals of your so-called “community,” or are you a publisher
protecting/censoring content?
As my friend
Dr. A. Mircea wrote, “For the past few months, my Facebook posting and comments
have been severely censored, photos covered, erased, cancelled or outright
blocked. Then, in the past few weeks, the censorship commissars informed me
officially that my posts and attempts to “wake up America” will be reviewed,
eliminated, or prevented from going public.” How is that for communist-style
censorship coming from corporations?
America’s
sacred freedom of speech is on life support and we must stand up to censors who
want conservatives silenced.
Frightening and, at the same time, infuriating.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your courage.
I did resign from Facebook a couple of times before, but I wanted to continue to contribute to the FREEDOM OF SPEECH, hence I returned again and again, for Comrade Zuckerberg's more censorship punishments...
ReplyDeleteWell, I can no longer tolerate it...I'm out for good, as of September 5th 2020!
I'm leaving behind great memories, 5000 friends and a conservative group I personally created named "Let Freedom Ring!" God save America from the communist curse!
You shall be missed. I hope we can join Parler and MeWe.
DeleteToday's quote from Dr. Michel Levin, an avid political poet!
ReplyDeleteMichael's Limericks
Do not consider yourself dejected
If from Facebook you’ve been rejected
For in the end
Those we befriend
Will not permit truth to be deflected.
In the competition for viewers attention
There isn’t often much retention
It’s easy to skew facts into fiction
Censor ones diction
And one gazes on posts with less than rapt attention.
And should you continue to be bitter
You can always retreat to Twitter
As for myself
I’ll remain on the shelf
For long ago,I’d been a social media quitter.
I found it to be a gigantic waste of time
One tor which I wouldn’t spend even a dime
I don’t care to read the babble
Of mostly uninformed rabble
And I believe that has suited me just fine
The horrible censorship by Facebook and other social media is bad enough, but sadly that by the liberal news media (“Fake” news) probably does even more damage, because the news media reach more people on a daily basis. How else can you explain how Donald Trump, the hardest working and most productive president in history, has the lowest approval rating of all 13 post-WW-II presidents! Not one of Trump’s dozens of accomplishments has been fairly reported to TV viewers. Otherwise his approval rating would be at least 80, not 40 percent! David Sponseller
ReplyDeleteDr. Sponseller,
DeleteI agree. We have a good president despite his personal flaws. He has accomplished so much considering that he is being harassed non-stop by his opposition and the dishonest media. It is infuriating! How did America ever achieve such greatness with so much dishonesty, cowardice, lies, and corruption?