The numbers are in: Approx. 800 independent media accounts and pages have been banned from Facebook
The numbers are in: Approx. 800 independent media accounts and pages have been banned from Facebook
(RT News) Some 800 accounts and pages against the establishment were removed from Facebook in a radical crackdown on the social media giant ...
(RT News) Around 800 accounts and pages against the establishment were removed from Facebook in a radical crackdown against the social networking giant framed as a fight against spammers. RT spoke with those who were targeted by the cleanup.Among the hundreds of pages and accounts that Facebook and Twitter eliminated were the left and right political ones, which range from [so called] conspiracy theorists and observers of police brutality, the media with unconventional angles. While its content can sometimes be described as controversial, most of the banned pages had a large number of followers and disclosure.
RT spoke with some of the voices silenced by the Facebook movement. Here is what they had to say.
Jason Bassler, The Free Thought Project, 3.1 million followers.The Free Thought Project advertises itself as a "center for free thought conversations". Both their Facebook and Twitter accounts were closed in the purge prior to the exam.
Jason Bassler, who co-founded the project in 2013, told RT that what Facebook did is an act of political censorship and has nothing to do with its stated goal of cleaning up its spam platform.
"If that were just spam, if that was irrelevant trash, they would not be so threatening, they would not ban us, they would not care, we would not have been on their radar."
By spinning the story as a fight against the garbage of unworthy news, Facebook itself deceives users with its own version of false news, said: "This is nothing more than political censorship And trying to eradicate certain political ideologies. "
Nicholas Bernabe, founder of The Anti-Media, 2.1 million followers.
Nicholas Bernabe, blogger and entrepreneur behind the independent news aggregator The Anti-Media, believes that "the most worrying" in Facebook's treatment of media pages is that the technology giants are now trying to do so. police cultural dialogue posing as politically neutral.
"That could be perceived as Facebook intrudes in the elections.because we are only a few weeks of the partial exams and go to 800 pages of politically oriented media for its elimination. "
He added that most of the prohibited pages contained ".Opinions very anti-establishment, very anti-authoritarian., "who appealed to those whose take on the election is very different What the media has to offer.
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Matt Savoy, The Free Thought Project, 3.1 million followers.It's hard to overestimate the implications for those who were swept up in the purge, said Matt Savoy of The Free Thought Project. Many of the affected websites will be out of business and "thousands of people will be without work. "
"This is like a deathblow, Facebook was a source of how we could get our links and drive traffic to the website, and we do not have it anymore." The few remaining employees we have will leave. " . "
The journalists did not have time to prepare for the impending repression, Savoy said, and at first the staff thought it was a simple failure.
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Matt Bergman, punk rock libertarians, 190,000 followersMatt Bergman, who founded the Punk Rock Libertarians in 2010, told RT that his podcast "The Daily Liberator" was removed from Facebook without explanation. Bergman's own account was also briefly suspended, as well as those of other page managers.
The purge is the result of the pressure that Congress put on Mark Zuckerberg, and his first targets were independent outputs "to the right of the dial", since it is easier to avoid prohibiting relatively small outputs than the main channels like RT, he argued.
"Your terms of service agreement is probably one million words, nobody has read it until the end and I think that if they wanted, they can ban CNN, they can ban you, if they wanted, they can ban anyone. "
Bergman said he is filing an appeal in an attempt to restore the account.
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Dan Dicks, investigative journalist, 350,000 followers.Research journalist Dan Dicks, based in Vancouver, who writes for The Press for Truth, said the Facebook crackdown was "clearly political"How he saw technology companies take on the role of" the guardians of political thought. "
"What we are dealing with here today is The silencing of anyone who goes against the status quo. At this moment, it does not matter the right or left side of the political spectrum. "
Alex Jones, deleted from Facebook and Twitter, could have been "the first domino fall, "but now the repression has expanded to affect smaller outlets that compete for the minds of people on par with main means of communication, he said.
The offensive against voices against the establishment will bite Facebook againThe activist of the United Kingdom Labor Party and political theorist, Dr. Richard Barbrook, argued.
Facebook and other technology companies that feel compelled to impose more "traditional media censorship" are You are likely to see a mass exodus from your platforms., he believes.
"The problem is if they are doing too much, people would have gone to another place, where they have no network effects working against them"Barbrook told RT.
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