“This\n is like a death blow. Facebook was a source of how we were able to get \nour links out and drive traffic to the website, and we no longer have \nit. The few remaining employees that we have, they are going to be \ngone.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nJournalists did\n not get any time to prepare for the looming crackdown, Savoy said, and \nat first the staff thought it was a mere glitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Matt Bergman, Punk Rock Libertarians, 190,000 followers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Matt\n Bergman, who founded the Punk Rock Libertarians in 2010, told RT that \nhis “The Daily Liberator” podcast was taken down from Facebook without \nany explanation. Bergman’s own account along with those of other page \nadmins were also briefly suspended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The purge is the result of the pressure the Congress put on Mark Zuckerberg, and its first targets were independent outlets “right of the dial,”<\/em> since it’s easier to get away with banning relatively small outlets than major channels like RT, he argued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n“Their\n terms of service agreement is probably a million words long. Nobody has\n ever read it all the way through and I would think that if they wanted \nto they can ban CNN, they can ban you guys, if they wanted to, they can \nban anybody.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nBergman said he is filing an appeal in a bid to restore the account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dan Dicks, Investigative Journalist, 350,000 followers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Vancouver-based investigative journalist Dan Dicks, who writes for The Press for Truth, said the Facebook crackdown was “clearly political”<\/em> as it saw tech companies assuming the role of “the gatekeepers of political thought.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n“What\n we are dealing with here today is the silencing of anybody who goes \nagainst the status quo right now, does not matter right or left side of \nthe political spectrum.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nConspiracy theorist Alex Johns, expunged from Facebook and Twitter, might have been “the first domino to fall,”<\/em>\n but now the crackdown has widened to affect smaller outlets that vie \nfor minds of the people on par with mainstream media, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n“This is the mainstream media trying to wipe out their competition, so that the oligarchy can maintain status quo,”<\/em> Dicks said.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe\n crackdown on anti-establishment voices will return to bite Facebook, UK\n Labour Party activist and political theorist Dr. Richard Barbrook \nargued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Facebook and other tech companies who feel compelled to impose more “traditional media censorship”<\/em> are likely to see a mass exodus from their platforms, he believes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n“The\n problem is if they are doing it too much, people would be gone \nsomewhere else, where they don’t have network effects working against \nthem,”<\/em> Barbrook told RT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published time: 13 Oct, 2018 02:49 Edited time: 13 Oct, 2018 03:00 Get short URL \u00a9 Global Look Press \/ Mario Hommes Some 800 anti-establishment accounts and pages have been yanked from Facebook in a sweeping crackdown the social media giant framed as a fight against spammers. RT talked to those who were targeted in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[97,104,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-democracy","category-featured","category-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/5bc14380dda4c837768b4591.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2SfUR-1YR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7618,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions\/7618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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