{"id":39111,"date":"2018-10-13T12:35:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T17:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39111"},"modified":"2018-10-13T12:35:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T17:35:11","slug":"land-of-censorship-home-of-the-fake-alternative-voices-on-facebook-and-twitters-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39111","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Land of censorship & home of the fake\u2019: Alternative voices on Facebook and Twitter\u2019s crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cardboard cutouts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seen at a protest in Washington DC \u00a9 Reuters \/ Aaron P. Bernstein<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Alternative voices online are incensed after Facebook and Twitter closed down hundreds of political media pages ahead of November’s crucial midterm elections. Facebook says they broke its spam rules, they say it\u2019s censorship.<\/div>\n
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Some 800 pages<\/a>\u00a0spanning the political spectrum, from left-leaning organizations like The Anti Media, to flag-waving opinion sites like Right Wing News and Nation in Distress, were shut down. Other pages banned include those belonging to police brutality watchdog groups Filming Cops and Policing the Police. Even RT America\u2019s Rachel Blevins found her own page banned for posts that were allegedly \u201cmisleading users.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Journalist Glenn Greenwald hit out at those on the left who cheered Facebook and Twitter\u2019s coordinated \u2018deplatforming\u2019 of right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in August. \u201cThose who demanded Facebook & other Silicon Valley giants censor political content…are finding that content that they themselves support & like end up being repressed,\u201d<\/em> he wrote. \u201cThat’s what has happened to every censorship advocate in history.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Those who demanded Facebook & other Silicon Valley giants censor political content – something they didn’t actually want to do – are finding thatcontent that they themselves support & like end up being repressed. That’s what has happened to every censorship advocate in history:<\/p>\n

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