(Stillness in the Storm Editor) An unprecedented development in modern-day censorship has occurred, Facebook wants you condemn users they ban. Heretofore, Big Tech censored users by banning them from their platforms. While some bans are quite obviously political in nature (Deep State censorship), social media platforms retain the right to remove content that is actually dangerous or illegal, such as live streaming a rape or murder. But with Alex Jones, and several others, there is no evidence of any danger, other than the fact they use the social media platform to talk about things the establishment wants to keep quiet. You might not like Jones, you might think he’s crazy, but he isn’t dangerous, and he certainly isn’t doing anything illegal.
But the question as to whether Jones should be banned is a side issue for this story. Banning would be less damaging than what Facebook decided to do.
Citing policies “prohibiting dangerous individuals and organizations” Facebook not only banned Jones from posting, they are also preventing any of his content from being shared on the platform—unless you’re condemning it.
This is an egregious act of malevolence on the part of Facebook, an assault on the very freedom of thought we enjoy as human beings.
Refusing to let any of Jones’ content to posted is one thing. Forcing people to share Facebook’s “deep state-sanctioned” opinion is an unparalleled step toward tyranny.
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This amounts to a Facebook sponsored smear campaign, with you as the mouthpiece.
Why?
One, because there is no danger. Review the evidence yourself. Jones has never openly called for violence, nor has he performed illegal acts using the platform.
Two, Facebook and other social media giants never made it clear what they are banning him for. Jack Dorsey and the legal advisor for Twitter provided a non-answer when asked why they banned Jones and others. This amounts to deformation due to the fact people can’t judge for themselves if he is guilty of the alleged violation of policies.
A smear campaign is a planned attempt to discredit or destroy a person’s reputation. Facebook’s stance borders on slander because it does material harm to Jones’ reputation, which he needs in order to support himself and his family.
Facebook is already harming Jones by deplatforming him without a valid reason. Now they are recruiting you, the user, to proselytize their position on him, at least in directly.
Facebook is telling you that the only opinion you should have about Jones is a negative one. And that you can only share this negative opinion with others on their platform. This is a form of enforced speech, which is worse than suppressing free speech.
We have an opportunity to take a stand against this Deep State manipulation. I would argue, this is just the first step in an agenda of encroachment to destroy freedom of thought on social media.
Given that social media is one of the primary ways people are becoming aware of the corruption of this world, the Deep State needs to deal with this. One way is to make sure only “approved opinions” are acceptable. This policy of Facebook the first step to making that a reality.
The following image can be shared on social media to help raise awareness about this insidious assault against a man’s freedoms.
This does damage to everyone, by attacking free speech and slandering an innocent man. As a people, we should not let this go on unchecked, else we’ll find ourselves in a more draconian world before long.
– Justin
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by , May 2nd, 2019
ON THURSDAY AT around 2 pm ET, multiple news outlets simultaneously “broke” a story that six particularly toxic extremists and one conspiracy theorist organization had been banned from Facebook and Instagram. Only, they hadn’t.
Stories by CNN, the Verge, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post lauded Facebook for scrubbing the accounts of inflammatory far-right online figureheads like Laura Loomer, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Infowars’ Alex Jones and Paul Joseph Watson from both platforms. Yet those four still had control of their Instagram accounts for nearly an hour after the bans were announced. And Jones’ Facebook page, “Infowars Is Back,” was still online and live-streaming for nearly two hours after the ban was disclosed.
An image of the Infowars is Back Facebook page taken more than an hour after the site was reportedly banned.
Loomer and Yiannopolous took advantage of the advance notice, posting photos to Instagram about being banned from the platform that included captions directing their fans to follow them elsewhere. The pages were eventually removed, but the time lag and strange media rollout turned what should have been Facebook’s most comprehensive crackdown on high-profile extremists into another example of the company’s struggles with content moderation.
Facebook effectively gave these folks a heads up. In response to his ban, Milo got this up… on Instagram. pic.twitter.com/fSFcebvOjX
— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) May 2, 2019
None of the extremists banned Thursday are new to Facebook or Instagram. Each has used the platforms extensively to spread misinformation and inflame tensions. Jones and his allies were able to evade an earlier ban through a network of ostensibly unofficial pages sharing Infowars content. Facebook said on Thursday it would close that loophole, but that will require much greater effort by the company and may prove no more successful.
In addition to Jones, Yiannopoulos, Loomer, Joseph Watson, and Infowars, Facebook said it also banned white supremacist Paul Nehlen and radical Muslim preacher Louis Farrakhan from both Facebook and Instagram under its policies prohibiting dangerous individuals and organizations. The company says that all of their personal and professional accounts—or any accounts that appear to represent them or their organization—are no longer permitted on either platform.
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In a statement to WIRED, a Facebook spokesperson said that the company has “always banned individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology.” But the people and organization banned Thursday were just as extreme and peddled just as much misinformation a year ago. So why now?
Facebook says “the process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and it is what led us to our decision to remove these accounts today.”
In August 2018, YouTube and Apple banned Infowars. Facebook followed suit shortly after, removing Jones and his organization’s accounts, amid mounting pressure from critics to deplatform the conspiracy theorist. The company said its ban was unrelated to the actions of the other tech companies. And Jones and Infowars were effectively able to evade the ban thanks to a network of ostensibly unofficial pages and profiles dedicated to resharing Infowars content which popped up within days of the official accounts’ removal.
Facebook’s Thursday ban closes that loophole, by deploying a tool against Infowars usually reserved for terrorist organizations and self-proclaimed hate groups. The company says that users will be prohibited from sharing Infowars videos, radio clips, articles, and other content from the site unless they are explicitly condemning the material. Fan pages or groups that reshare Infowars content in a sincere or appreciative manner won’t be permitted.
By allowing users to share Infowars content for the purpose of criticizing it, Facebook has effectively restricted itself from using automated tools to enforce the ban—because those tools often cannot accurately determine context and tone. Instead, Facebook will have to rely on human content moderators to determine whether a post is sufficiently critical.
Asked about the “banned” accounts remaining active for an hour or more after the ban was disclosed, the Facebook spokesperson said it was the result of a plan gone awry. Facebook had originally intended for the six users and Infowars to be banned from the platform and told of the ban before they read about it in the press.
However, actually scrubbing all of the accounts from the platforms took much longer than Facebook had anticipated, the spokesperson said, leading to more than an hour of lag time in some cases.
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Stillness in the Storm Editor: Why did we post this?
Censorship of information is critically important for the Deep State to maintain their false reality paradigm, which is the foundation of the mind control system used to enslave the individual and society at large. The preceding information reveals one such method the powers that be are using to censor information. Properly understood, one can begin the process of liberating their mind from false conceptions of reality, particularly those incomplete bits of knowledge that if contemplated fully, would activate the truth-seeking urge and result in the development of mental autonomy—critical thinking and discernment skills.
– Justin
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Source:
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-bans-alex-jones-extremists/
Facebook’s Judgement Day is coming.
The End is Near.
The Hammer is about to be dropped on them.