On Friday, popular conservative columnist Michelle Malkin said that fascists at Facebook, the authoritarian social media company dubbed “Iron FistBook” by cartoonist A.F. Branco, slapped her after she dared to defend the free speech of Laura Loomer and Gavin McInnes, two conservative individual made into thought criminals and digital unpersons by what this writer now calls the Silicon Valley Axis of Evil.
“So this just happened to me on @facebook The shadow of the Valley of the Banned looms. Contingency plans in place,” she tweeted.
So this just happened to me on @facebook The shadow of the Valley of the Banned looms. Contingency plans in place.#fightthecensors @RonColeman @alx @LibertarianBlue @RaheemKassam @willchamberlain @pdabrosca @gatewaypundit @minds @bitchute https://t.co/6yY8lWzTce pic.twitter.com/o5w5CkXECz
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) May 10, 2019
Here’s the post and Facebook’s response:
Apparently, supporting free speech or defending the free speech of those Facebook doesn’t like violates their alleged “Community Standards,” which seem to change with the winds.
In a follow-up post, Malkin stated:
I know my days here are numbered. You know Twitter goons already put me on notice for my Mo Cartoons posts. Now @facebook – Instagram's next. Stay in touch for my next big projects via my newsletter sign-up. Always have a back-up plan or 2 or 3==> https://t.co/G49S2pAQ2e
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) May 10, 2019
She then noted how Facebook even had the gall to hit her up for money after her post was banned.
I know my days here are numbered. You know Twitter goons already put me on notice for my Mo Cartoons posts. Now @facebook – Instagram's next. Stay in touch for my next big projects via my newsletter sign-up. Always have a back-up plan or 2 or 3==> https://t.co/G49S2pAQ2e
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) May 10, 2019
It seems that Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes was right when he called the company “dangerous” in an op-ed at the New York Times, further saying that Mark Zuckerberg has become too powerful and must be stopped.
Indeed. Issues like this are what inspired American-Israeli Adina Kutnicki and I to publish “Banned: How Facebook Enables Militant Islamic Jihad” in 2016. We warned what might happen if nothing was done. Nothing has happened and the company has become an oppressive online dictatorship somewhat reminiscent of Orwell’s “Oceania,” Nazi Germany and the former Soviet Union. And still, Congress does nothing.
Exit question: How long will it be before Facebook starts executing conservatives in the street? And will apologists say Facebook can do whatever it wants because it’s a private company? This may sound hyperbolic, but who would have thought five years ago that a private company could do what Facebook is doing?
Courtesy of Conservative Firing Line
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