UPDATE 12/20 11:30 AM PST: Facebook just removed the block. Does this herald less censorship of dissenters? Not likely. But it’s a positive development.
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It’s just a technical problem, right? All I have to do is secure my account with two-factor authentication, right? Sure, except I did that when Facebook blocked Jihad Watch in September, and all seemed to be well. A Facebook operative repeatedly assured me at that time that there was no silencing of dissenting voices going on in my case, that it was purely a technical matter, and it was quickly cleared up.
As of yesterday, however, it isn’t. Facebook is demanding that I do again what I did in September: prove that I am in the United States, apparently to establish that I’m not a Russian bot (contrary to the claims of Malcolm Nance on MSNBC), and give them a phone number. I’ve given them everything they’ve asked for more than once now, but nonetheless the block remains. And now the Facebook employee who was so helpful in September is not answering my emails.
The Facebook fascists are increasingly open about what they’re doing. And remember that in July 2017, Facebook Vice President Joel Kaplan went to Pakistan to assure the Pakistani government that it would remove “anti-Islam” material. Is Facebook closing down my site because it dislikes my views, which assuredly must annoy the Pakistani government, and is steadily endeavoring to silence all dissent from the hard-Left agenda? That is blazingly obvious.
I would have nothing to do with Facebook were it not the portal through which so many people get their news, but I am not too concerned about these new developments: people are abandoning Facebook by the droves now that it has become clear that it’s just another Leftist propaganda outfit, and so I’m willing to bow out there, and sit back and and watch as the whole corrupt and compromised Sharia-compliant Zuckerberg edifice eventually tumbles down.
I’ve asked a couple of Facebook operatives for on-the-record comment on this. If they answer, you’ll be the first to know.