My personal Facebook account, which has the maximum 5,000 friends and an additional 5,000+ followers, has been blocked from posting for three days.
My page hasnt been blocked yet, but well see; I shared the article there, too.
The reason given for this ban by the little pop-up boxes when I logged on just now was that a couple months ago I had shared an article about admitted false flag operations perpetrated by governments around the world.
I dont know what happened that made Facebooks system decide to crack down on me now all of a sudden, but I do know Ive been a bit naughtier than usual in my last couple of articles.
The article I got the banhammer for sharing is titled For Those Who Dont Believe In Conspiracies Here Are 58 Admitted False Flag Attacks.
According to the sites ticker it has 50,667 shares as of this writing. Its laden with hyperlinks for further reading, and lists only instances of false flag operations that insiders are on the record as having admitted to themselves. Its a good compilation of important information. People should be allowed to share it.
The notifications say I can be permanently banned if I continue posting that sort of material. Ive had that account since 2007.
So. Who wants to see my Barbra Streisand impression?
In a corporatist system of government, corporate censorship is state censorship. When theres no meaningful space between corporate power and government power, it doesnt make much difference whether the guy silencing your dissent is Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Sessions. America most definitely has such a system.
If theyre going to get us locked down and propagandized into their vapid brain boxes, this will be how theyll do it. Not by government censorship, but by corporate censorship. Government cant make an overt attempt to stop a dissenting voice from speaking, but the corporations who own the venue of their speech can.
In a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, plutocrat-sponsored senators spoke with top legal and security officials for Facebook, Twitter and Google in a very disturbing way about the need to silence dissenting voices.
Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii demanded that the companies adopt a mission statement declaring their commitment to prevent the fomenting of discord.
A former FBI agent Clint Watts kicked it up even further, saying,
Civil wars dont start with gunshots, they start with words. Americas war with itself has already begun. We all must act now on the social media battlefield to quell information rebellions that can quickly lead to violent confrontations and easily transform us into the Divided States of America.
Stopping the false information artillery barrage landing on social media users comes only when those outlets distributing bogus stories are silenced??silence the guns and the barrage will end, he added.
This was on the Senate floor. Officials were speaking about the need to censor social media to prevent people from sharing dissenting ideas on the Senate floor.
World Socialist Web Site said of the hearing,
That such a statement could be made in a congressional hearing, entirely without objection, is an expression of the terminal decay of American democracy. There is no faction of the ruling class that maintains any commitment to basic democratic rights.
None of the Democrats in the committee raised any of the constitutional issues involved in asking massive technology companies to censor political speech on the Internet. Only one Republican raised concerns over censorship, but only to allege that Google had a liberal bias.
Ill admit right now that this really scares me. Ever the optimist, Ive been reassuring my readers that the corporatocracy would never risk taking off the black hole sun mask of corporate cheerfulness and move into regular, overt totalitarianism. Ive contended that they must remain covert in order to keep successfully manufacture consent.
But, here we are. Through a studious application of psy-ops they have their censorship and they have their consent. Remember, in the book Fahrenheit 451 the public wasnt unhappy about the book burnings. They cheered them on, and thats what we have now. The herd is mindlessly clapping their approval at censorship and even volunteering to report naughty behavior like good little hall monitors for the oligarchy. Im sure that even some of my close friends and family will silently approve of my banning and will meet my distress with the pursed lips of a church lady secretly pleased at my comeuppance.
I tried joining Gab when I saw this coming, but its really alt-righty there and the energy there is just gross. Finding a new social media outlet might not even matter anyway, since these creeps just target any place people gather in large numbers.
I dont know. I always freak out a bit when the eye of corporate censorship focuses on me. Ive recently been told by a number of people that theyve been banned for sharing my articles, and now its hitting me.
Im babbling. This is weird. I just really, really dont want humanity to become what these people are trying to turn it into, you know? Help me make some noise about this stuff, please. Manipulators cant do their job when theres a big spotlight pointed at them.