Reflections From a Murky Pond

Oh, the sorts running and working at Fascistbook will probably never quite come out and say it, but blocking, jailing, and deplatforming as many American voices as possible is definitely part of their agenda in the lead up to the 2020 elections.

Their latest target has been Black Conservative, Candace Owens. They actually went so far as to authorize special scrutiny of Ms. Owens’ public persona, her ideology, actions, and major news involving her. The policy review team was also instructed to list any and all “Affiliated Hate Entities” of Owens – whatever those are.

Tags: 2020 Elections | Candace Owens | Censorship | Civil War | Democrats | Deplatforming | Domestic Enemies | Facebook | Fascism | Fascistbook | Fascists | Hate Speech | Liberals | Progressives | Social Media

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 23rd, 2019 at 8:22 am and is filed under 2020 Elections, Politics, Technology. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

To most Americans it’s obvious that Facebook’s bans are the conspiracy. They’ve doubled-down on probably illegally silencing certain sorts of speech and certain sorts of speech only, while letting at least as “dangerous” things go by without censure or censorship. Indeed, they developed the habit of actively defending their preferred narrative by banning dissenting or complaining comments and those that made them.

Tags: 1st Amendment | America | Bias | Censorship | Constitutional Law | Facebook | Fascistbook | Fascists | Freedom of Speech | Law | Liberals | Liberty | Politics | Progressives | Social Media | Society | The Constitution

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 8th, 2019 at 8:40 am and is filed under Politics, Society. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

An oversimplification? Sure. It’s still fairly accurate though since one can, for the most part, sort the deadly sins by social media platform.  😈

Tags: Deadly Sins | Facebook | Humor | Instagram | LinkedIn | Netflix | Sin | Social Media | Technology | Tinder | Twitter | Yelp

This entry was posted on Sunday, October 28th, 2018 at 6:38 am and is filed under Humor, Society, Technology. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Most people believe that there is no real way to fight against Facebook’s fascistic censoring of speech and opinion in its platform because Facebook aka Fascistbook is a private, corporate entity. Fortunately and surprisingly, this is NOT legally true and there is case law to back that up.

The US Supreme Court’s ruling in Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946) that when a corporation is, in essence the public square and functions as such, it must abide by the same restrictions as the State insofar as Constitutional law is concerned. And that Facebook is, in fact, operating in that manner is the held opinion of the SCOTUS, as stated in Packingham v. North Carolina, 582 U.S. _ (2017).

Social media allows users to gain access to information and communicate with one another on any subject that might come to mind. With one broad stroke, North Carolina bars access to what for many are the principal sources for knowing current events, checking ads for employment, speaking and listening in the modern public square, and otherwise exploring the vast realms of human thought and knowledge. Foreclosing access to social media altogether thus prevents users from engaging in the legitimate exercise of First Amendment rights.

— Justice Anthony Kennedy

The Court’s ruling in Packingham v. North Carolina is of particular importance because it eliminates the potentially countering issues brought up in Cyber Promotions, Inc. v. American Online, Inc., 948 F. Supp. 436 (E.D. Pa. 1996), though Facebook’s de facto monopoly and ubiquitousness might well do that already.

So yes, I do believe that we, the People have to capacity to fight Fascistbook and the other dangerously biased and tyrannical social media corporations that have become entrenched in society to the point of it not being completely ridiculous to think of them as utilities.

Tags: 1st Amendment | America | Bias | Censorship | Constitutional Law | Facebook | Fascistbook | Fascists | Freedom of Speech | Law | Liberals | Marsh v. Alabama | Politics | Progressives | Social Media | Society | The Constitution

This entry was posted on Monday, August 20th, 2018 at 7:30 am and is filed under Politics, Society, Technology. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Yep! Facebook Has Jailed Me Again

Yes, it’s true; a few days ago I was jailed by Facebook again – another 30 days during which I cannot post, share, comment, or even “like” someone’s post. Above is the “Hate Speech” I wrote in reply to someone’s post calling for Australia to ban calls from India due to all the scammers constantly calling people there.

The funny part iss that the majority of those Indian scammers are breaking Indian laws when they call other countries. Most, due to maximization of profits, use VOIP to do it and using for VOIP for international calling is actually illegal in India…they want the rupies from it.

— jonolan
Facebook Comment

Now, I being reasonably normal and sensible, rather than rant and rave, I simply requested a review by FB’s monitors / admins. I figured that I just got caught by some algorithm.

Yep Again! Facebook’s Employees Agree

But no! If, and it’s a nested series of if’s, Facebook actually does have people review alleged “Community Standards” violations and if those reviewers actually review the complaint instead of just pushing a button to agree with the algorithm, then those reviewers also believe that my comment constituted “Hate Speech” or that they could use the initial, computer-driven jailing as an excuse to silence me for 30 days.

OK, OK! Maybe it was just a particularly rabid Grammar Nazi. I did, after all, misspell “Rupees.”

Think about that. Read the comment I was jailed for again and think about what this means for people when operatives of the largest communication platform in the world can and do silence people at their whim and are utterly unaccountable for doing so. There is even an escalation process. Nor is their the capability for people to contact Facebook via any means other than their “support” portal.

Tags: 1st Amendment | Facebook | Free Speech | Indians | Internet | Liberals | Progressives | Social Media | The Internet

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 1st, 2018 at 2:08 pm and is filed under Society, Technology. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.