“No One Else Can See Your Post”
- “Your Post Goes Against Our Community Standards So Only You Can See It”
[Update: 8/5/23 – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. just filed a lawsuit against Google for violations of free speech rights. Read the lawsuit and watch the RFK, Jr. speech that Google took down from YouTube.
Prior to that, a federal District Court judge issued an opinion that documented widespread, systemic government censorship. Read the opinion too. ~~~ end update]
It is shameful that I have to begin by noting this, but anyone who knows me or reads what I write knows that I am not a science denier, racist, anti-semite, homophobic, misogynist, anti-trans, anti-vaxer, MAGA Trumper, Putin puppet, violent extremist, Fascist, et al. or distributor of disinformation, misinformation, libels, or any other intentional and/or malicious falsehoods or smears. This is all irrelevant anyway.
(if the government has now defined a whole new concept of “malinformation” including information that deviates from government diktat or criticizes government policy, then I am proud to be a distributor of “malinformation”)
So, let me say that I was appalled by how the Democrats in Congress just defended the indefensible, at yesterday’s House hearing on blatant censorship by the federal government (the hearing behavior was actually worse than the Democrats’ letter prior to the hearing).
I’d also like to go on record to document that I was one of the millions of Americans whose First Amendment rights were infringed upon and violated by the federal government.
The above post is clear evidence of that.
On January 8, 2021, I posted the photo above of myself and a group of environmental leaders from NJ on the Capitol steps. This group was selected and honored by Congressman Rush Holt (who signed the photo FB suppressed).
It was suppressed by Facebook.
At the time, I was not aware of the fact that Facebook’s rationale or motives to intentionally censor speech were at the direction of and under the coercion of the federal government. I now know that.
My intent was exactly the opposite of what I assume Facebook and the government’s intent was.
But my intent is irrelevant.
It was blatant and intolerable censorship. Period.
The crucial factor is the interplay of governmental and private action, for it is only after the initial exertion of state power represented by the production order that private action takes hold. ~~~ US Supreme Court, NAACP v. Alabama (1958)