Facebook Speech Police Ban Independent Author for Sharing Article
Banned from Facebook for Sharing Article About False Flags
In an article published by MintPressNews.com (linked below), Caitlin Johnstone revealed that she recently received notice from Facebook that her personal account was being blocked for 3 days. The reason? Because Johnstone shared an article that “doesn’t follow” Facebook “Community Standards”.
The article shared by Ms. Johnstone that Facebook found offensive is titled, “For Those Who Don’t ‘Believe’ In ‘Conspiracies’ Here are 58 Admitted False Flag Attacks” (this article is also linked at the bottom) and published by the website EducateInspireChange.org. This article, apparently written by someone other than Johnstone, is a fact and link-filled eye-opener about the subject of false flag events. It does not appear to contain any lewd or otherwise offensive language or imagery.
The notifications say I can be permanently banned if I continue posting that sort of material. I’ve had that [Facebook] account since 2007.
While the right to freedom speech guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not apply to a private entity like Facebook, the social media giant is clearly targeting individuals for censorship based on their political views. This is clearly demonstrated by the fact that the alleged offensive content that Caitlin Johnstone shared is not about alleged false flag events, rather it is a list of events where someone with government credentials has confirmed government involvement in creating the event. For an organization that has ostensibly committed itself to policing “fake news”, Facebook sure seems hostile to people sharing the truth!
Who Is Caitlin Johnstone?
According to her Medium.com account, Caitlin Johnstone is a “rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper.” She has over 15,000 followers on Medium.com, 5,000 Facebook friends and over 5,000 Facebook followers. She says that she has had her Facebook account since 2007, but the notifications she’s received say she can be permanently banned if she continues posting that sort of material.
Johnstone noted she posted the article two months prior, but that recently she has posted articles of her own that were particularly challenging to the establishment. Or as she puts it, she’s “been a bit naughtier than usual” in her last couple of articles. Those last couple of articles apparently asserted that WikiLeaks receives biased coverage in the mainstream media. You can read her personal account of receiving the Facebook banhammer, “I’ve Been Banned From Facebook for Sharing an Article About False Flags”, on MintPressNews.com (article linked below).
A Hegelian Dialectic Ploy to Get Alternative Voices to Call for Goverment Interference?
This story is yet another example in a growing list of censorship efforts by social media giants, Facebook, Google/YouTube, and Twitter under the guise of combating “fake news”. This is pure speculation on the part of this author, but these attempts at suppressing ideas and information that challenge the status quo imposed by western social media giants not only provide the perfect end-run around constitutional protections of free speech, but also provide the perfect foundation for a Hegelian Dialectic, or “problem-reaction-solution”, scenario whereby those who challenge the status quo may be lured into calling for government regulation of large social media platforms.
Caitlin Johnstone appears to be an advocate for free exchange of ideas and civil liberties and I do not believe she has any ulterior motives. However, in her MintPress.com article on being banned from Facebook she states, “[i]n a corporatist system of government, corporate censorship is state censorship. When there’s no meaningful space between corporate power and government power, it doesn’t make much difference whether the guy silencing your dissent is Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Sessions.”
While it is important to call out and resist oppressive and authoritarian behavior, particularly by such powerful actors as Facebook, we also must also be vigilant against any attempt to use such behavior by private entities as an excuse for increasing government interference in private Internet platforms. Otherwise, we risk falling for the Hegelian Dialectic trap by begging for the very authoritarian government mechanisms we sought to oppose in the first place.
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Links:
- “For Those Who Don’t ‘Believe’ In ‘Conspiracies’ Here are 58 Admitted False Flag Attacks” at EducateInspireChange.org
- Caitlin Johnstone’s Medium account
- “I’ve Been Banned From Facebook for Sharing an Article About False Flags” at MintPressNews.com
- PNR Video, “The Hegelian Dialectic“
- See also, “Facebook Security Chief Warns of Creation of Ministry of Truth”
