On Thursday, Facebook removed some of the most popular oppositional pages and accounts on the world’s largest social media network, in a massive and unconstitutional assault on freedom of expression.
With no public notice or accounting, over 800 pages and accounts have been summarily removed from the internet. The removed pages include Police the Police, with a following of over 1.9 million, Cop Block, with a following of 1.7 million, and Filming Cops, with a following of 1.5 million. Other pages targeted include Anti-Media, with 2.1 million followers, Reverb Press, with 800,000 followers, Counter Current News, 500,000 followers, and Resistance, 240,000 followers.
Right-wing publications, including Right Wing News, were also removed.
The move has no precedent in the history of the internet.
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http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/12/cens-o12.html
Truly amazing !!! What the hell is going on?
Since Facebook is technically a non-governmental, non-regulated entity I would not call this move "unconstitutional". It is, however, a massive assault on freedom of expression.
Any belief that "the left" (a.k.a. the Democrats) is in favor of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or free expression is ABSURD. We are headed to a state of autocracy and extreme censorship, but it's coming from the likes of Hillary Clinton and Obama ad-Dajjal, the disciples of Saul Alinsky.
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