By Steve Otto
Once again Facebook has censored me for my opinions. They are claiming that I violated their community standards. To put it in simple language this is what they said:
You can't post or comment for 2 days
This is because 3 of your previous posts didn't follow our
Community Standards.
Nov 16, 2021
Your comment didn't follow our Community Standards
Jun 12, 2021
Your comment didn't follow our Community Standards
May 15, 2021
Your comment didn't follow our Community Standards
Here is my post for Nov.
16:
Has anyone seen those adds for cashnetUSA.com, Do you know what the
interest rate is on those loans--a little over 200%. That is a whole lot of
money, and I do mean A whole lot of money-!!!!(1)
I then posted a link to that ad on TV:
Along with:
Their complaint is that I threatened people
with violence. So where in this comment does it say that I encourage anyone to
use violence? The answer is nowhere. There is no suggestions that people use
violence against these lenders. In earlier posts I did say that these lenders
are crooks, and they deserve much worse than what most activist want to do. I
posted an article in my blog, the Idiot
Factor: Corruption Folly which said:
“I recently attended a Payday Loans Town Hall meeting. Most of the
people there wanted to reform the predatory lenders rather than banning them.
My personal feelings are that people who try to profit of the most vulnerable
of people really belong in jail. I would rather see those institution banned.
That is possible, but maybe not what is best for the people who live around
them. Maybe the people who live around the Payday Loans and other similar
institutions will be better off if those institutions simply treat them fairly.
I don’t blame
the people in those areas for wanting reforms rather than bans. But I have a
strong distaste for those who want to profit of off those in our society who
are already down. The profit off of those who have problems finding a job that
pays more than minimum wage. They profit off of those who may be living in sub
standard homes, which cost them a lot of money. They profit off of
those who may be driving cars that are about to fall apart at any time. When
they do fall apart they have to find money to fix them and that is not always
possible.”
In the past I have suggested that some of these
deserve to be shot, “DESERVE,” but I never seriously suggested that people
actually use violence against them. My latest comment said nothing about
hurting anyone. I didn’t say anything about putting people in jail. So why was
my view point censored?!
This is an obvious case of me being shut down
simply because some one does not like my opinion.
Facebook is a monopoly that can control what ever they
want in a public forum. We already have three major news networks, ABC, NBC
and CBS. All of them are very biased. These three networks dominate what
passes for news and what is accepted speech and what is not. If there are views
they don’t like, they have ways to make them go away. They ignore them and make
sure such views are kept from the public. They are very affective at doing this. Facebook
is following in their footsteps. They are making sure that anyone who does not
support the Bourgeois status quo, simply disappear—or at least their opinions
do. For example,
how many people in the public eye are able to disagree
with our leader’s treatment of Cuba? Those who defend the Cuban government are
kept out of the public eye.
The bourgeois press is
fond of pointing out that America’s Communist Party can freely publish their
newspaper. That is true. But how many people have ever seen it? If any American
wanted to see that newspaper for themselves, how easy would it be to find such
a paper? How many people know where to get one? Unlike the old Communist run governments,
we do not have official censorship—we have effective censorship. There are no
laws on the books to censor people here in America and yet there are voices that
are never heard. Thanks in part to the US Congress, and due to both parties, Facebook
has become another bourgeois form of thought control. They are a monopoly;
they are owned by $billionaires and those of us who cross their point of view
get buried. Only the wealthy and powerful in this country can be heard without censorship.
Others can be swept under the rug and never heard from again. There is no
organization—no company that can rival Facebook. And they know it.
Another important
point is that Facebook is protecting people with unscrupulous practices
that harm poor people, trapping them in debt and then squeezing out large
amounts of money from them. Such practices used to be called extortion. But
today these criminal practices stay legal thanks to such leaders as Donald
Trump and institutions as Facebook!
I plan to appeal this
to their censorship board. If that does not work, I plan to seek the help of
those who are tired of a lopsided view of leaders who believe they can censor
and destroy those who get in their way or threaten their agendas!
As of yet, we are not
beaten. We will be heard!
(1) For those who have not seen this--it is too good to not show the public--https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/301294069923254?show_form=post_problem.
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