Who is Facebook to decide what people should hear or not hear? Who is Facebook to decided what people want to read or should read? Who is Facebook to decide what people should or should not be protected from? Americans nowadays are soft enough as it is and to further bubble wrap them from the real world will result in more harm than good. Facebook regardless if the believe it or not is the public commons – the common place for public speech. It is not good that private corporations can be unaccountable and have the power to control our public spaces.
They may not want to admit it, but it is clear Facebook had closed door purge conservative views meeting, or else they would have never sent out a press release saying they were banning far-right political voices (which are nowhere close to far right). The only reason Farrakhan was added so that they would not seem to have a bias against the right on behalf of the progressive liberal left. For example, Linda Sarsour remains on twitter although she praises and supports Farrakhan and a known convicted murder terrorist Rasmea Odeh who was convicted in Israel of killing two Hebrew University students in a 1969 terrorist attack and for planning an attack on the British Consulate. Is she banned? Will she be banned? I doubt it.
The flying monkeys of Facebook are the true danger. I consider them flying monkeys because it is a phrase used that describes folk “who act on behalf of a narcissist to a third party, usually for an abusive purpose” or folk “who act on behalf of a psychopath for a similar purpose.” Yes this is an apt description of the thought police of Facebook however, they are not fictional characters the likes provided to literature by L. Frank Baum in his novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz but they are ironically the same representation of evil or fear Facebook censors proffer us today for to Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, dangerous means saying things they do not like – fascism by another name is one person deciding what opinions you are allowed to have, especially if liberal-leaning tech companies are the single controller in open public debate.
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