Monday, September 7, 2020

America’s Sacred Freedom of Speech on Life Support

If you are a conservative, your sacred freedom of speech is on life support. The tech billionaires in control of various social platforms have become the Soviet-style post office headquarters.

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.




6 comments:

  1. Frightening and, at the same time, infuriating.

    Thank you for your courage.

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  2. 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...
    Well, 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!

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    1. You shall be missed. I hope we can join Parler and MeWe.

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  3. Today's quote from Dr. Michel Levin, an avid political poet!
    Michael'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

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  4. 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

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    1. Dr. Sponseller,
      I 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?

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