The Evil Face of Facebook Censorship
By Gina Miller
AmericanClarion.com
For many years I resisted joining Facebook. I
looked at it with disdain, as nothing more than a
do-it-yourself surveillance network, a government
spy’s treasure trove, which, of course, it is.
I finally decided it could also be a useful tool in
sharing my columns and networking with fellow
patriots. I knew I wouldn’t stupidly post
information about myself that I didn’t want everyone
and their dog to know, like photographs of my lunch
and when and where I’m away from home at the moment
(hello, house burglar!), so I broke down and joined
last October.
I quickly learned how the site works, and I also
observed the strange way the “news feed” page
doesn’t seem to make sense, how some stories take
off with lots of attention and others of equal or
more importance are hardly noticed. You can
organize your news feed by “top stories” or “most
recent,” and I set mine to “most recent,” but
Facebook keeps changing my setting back to “top
stories.” Why? I believe it’s because
Facebook manipulates these “top stories,” whatever
they consider them to be. It likely
manipulates the “most recent” stories, too, by
simply omitting some and showing others.
We know that Facebook
does manipulate our news feed page.
It recently admitted using close to 700,000 users as
unwitting guinea pigs in a purported
“scientific” study to see how they
would react to being flooded with positive or
negative posts on their news feeds. Many users
were outraged by this. Others, if they were
even aware of the study, just shrugged their
shoulders, re-closed their eyes and went back to
playing Facebook video games and “poking”each
other.
When we sign up on Facebook, we should know that it
is a company run by liberals. The young CEO,
Mark Zuckerberg, is a leftist and known supporter of
Barack Obama (or whatever his name is). That
should tell you plenty about where his sympathies
lie. Facebook’s
notorious censorship of conservatives and
pro-family advocates comes as no surprise, although
it’s utterly detestable in a “free” society like
ours is supposed to be. I have known people
who have had their pro-life, pro-family pages
deleted by Facebook without warning or explanation,
includingAmericans
for Truth About Homosexuality’s Peter
LaBarbera, who had his personal page deleted without
reason or notification, although the reason was
undoubtedly the iron fist of “political
correctness,” since Pete tells the truth about the
immoral, unnatural and unhealthy behavior of
homosexuality and its tyrannical, activist movement.
While it may be hard to actually see manipulation of
stories on Facebook, because you can’t see what’s
being buried, there are dramatic, obvious examples
of Facebook manipulation. One of the biggest
ones I know is that ofRenew
America’s Facebook
page. Renew America became a
co-sponsor and promoter of the Conservative
Majority PAC’s Pledge
to Impeach drive to recruit congressmen
and the American people to commit to the impeachment
and removal from office of the lawless Obama and his
collaborators for their anti-constitutional, even
treasonous, crimes against the United States.
In his July 7thcolumn, “Is
Facebook Blocking RenewAmerica’s Impeachment Drive?”
President and Editor of Renew America, Stephen
Stone, wrote:
On April 15, RenewAmerica’s Facebook
page dramatically surged to 100,000 fans
— after years of being parked around 10,000.
… The obvious reason for the
surge in fans was RA’s prominent promotion of
Obama’s constitutionally-required impeachment in
article after article, graphic after graphic, spread
across our Facebook page and shared with recipients
week after week, beginning late last summer.
Within a week after reaching this milestone, our
Facebook page grew by another 10,000 fans — an
increase of nearly 1,500 a day — and within a month,
our page reached 150,000 fans, a phenomenal
expansion that continued to increase between
1,000 and 2,000 a day.
All due mainly to RA’s
aggressive public push for impeaching the most
lawless, traitorous president in our country’s
history. This impeachment push was the only
distinguishing thing RA was doing differently that
could possibly explain the remarkable escalation of
its Facebook page’s influence after years of
plateauing around 10,000.
The obvious connection
between our vocal impeachment effort and our
dramatic surge in reach was impossible to dismiss.
Facebook’s “Obama brigade” to the rescue
A month after RA’s Facebook page reached 100,000
fans — and just days after it surpassed 153,000
— our rate of “likes” began plummeting as
precipitously as it had risen. This sudden collapse
began noticeably May 14. In the eight weeks since
then, the page has gained just 7,000 new fans —
dropping from 1,500 new likes a day to just 100 a
day, a 93 percent decline.
This is the evil face of Facebook. It is the
face of burgeoning communist censorship. It is
the face of the anti-Americanism of the radical
Left. It is the face of the metastasizing
tyranny that is fast growing in our nation. It
is the face of a company that will do the bidding of
the lawless despot in the White House to subvert or
silence the message of those opposed to his
“fundamental transformation” of the United States
into a socialist-communist hell-hole.
Many have lamented the lack of a conservative option
to Facebook. Even if someone had the
knowledge, money and ability to create and launch
such an alternative, the website would be
hard-pressed to ever gain the reach that Facebook
has. Facebook is simply a powerful behemoth.
Respected as the world’s most popular social media
service, Facebook has a duty to its far-reaching
community, and to the nation that enabled that
community, to be fair and neutral in matters of
legitimate politics. Considering that the
Constitution prescribes impeachment and removal as
the sole remedy to a lawless president, Facebook
has no valid justification for squelching vitally
important public discourse in a partisan effort to
protect an unprecedentedly errant chief executive.
… In a truly free country, no subversive bully
should be allowed such inordinate sway, without
challenge, in the political arena. I call upon
Facebook to cease and desist from any appearance —
or reality — of interfering with the growing
movement to impeach and remove Barack Obama, and let
the American people, in ways mandated
by the Constitution, decide the man’s fate.
I don’t know what it would take to stop Facebook
from being a censorship goon for the Obama regime.
I have read of lawsuits against it over censorship,
but I have seen little evidence that Facebook gives
a rip about being even-handed.
Those of us who know the Lord and have studied His
Word, know that the future is a horribly dark place
of unimaginable tyranny and global, even
supernatural, surveillance. We’re watching it
fall into place more each day. We should not
be surprised by any of this, and we’re not, although
that doesn’t mean we don’t speak out against it.
Meanwhile, I’ll continue to use Facebook until its
censors delete my page for containing
soon-to-be-outlawed “hate speech,” since I speak the
truth about their beloved Dear Leader, his evil
schemes and the vile agenda of the radical Left.