Today Hundreds of Activist Pages Were Purged From Facebook, Including Many of Mine

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For months now, The Free Thought Project, Police The Police, The Anti Media and The Free Your Mind Conference dozens of other pages that I am affiliated with were unpublished from Facebook. According to an article from the LA Times, this was a concerted effort to wipe out "spam" accounts that post political links.

Next, Anti Media and numerous writers for the site got banned from TWITTER, showing cooperation between the two social media giants.

This signifies a re-consolidation of the media. Cable news media  controlled the narrative for most of modern history, but the internet  has lowered that barrier to entry and allowed the average person  to become the media themselves. This obviously took market share and  influence away from the traditional media, and it has allowed for a more  diverse public conversation. Now it seems the platforms that have  monopolized the industry are favoring mainstream sources and silencing  alternative voices. So now, instead of allowing more people to have a  voice, these platforms are creating an atmosphere where only powerful  media organizations are welcome, just as we had on cable news. 

People think that we are just providing an activist spin on the news,  but they don't see the families struggling to have their voice heard.  For example, when someone is shot by police, mainstream media sources  often just republish the press release from the police department,  without presenting the victim's side of the story. We give the victims  and their families a voice, which is essential to keep power in check.  This also goes for bigger issues like foreign policy as well; multiple  full-scale invasions of Syria have been prevented because of information  that the alternative media made viral. 

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Remember the supreme court case against the mormon passing out literature on company property. The company owned the whole town and SCOTUS ruled that the town is a public square. You cant suppress freedom of speech even if you own the public square. Use their words against them. They called their systems a public square. #infowarsarmy

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More and more reason we need scale adoption of blockchain tech. Things like this won't be allowed if a decentralized structure is in place.

I will ever be an evangelist of the tech.
My new post about why blockchain is so disruptuve https://steemit.com/blockchain/@paulo380/why-blockchain-is-considered-as-the-most-disruptive-tech

If you want to fight back against Facebook join @jpbliberty in the Class Action against them. All Steemians are eligible. https://www.jpbliberty.com/class-member-signup

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I hope others will join me in replying to these tweets on twitter about this horrible turn of events. Now more than ever we need to get these amazing journalists and teams here!

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Last days of the fakebook empire...

𝕮𝖔𝖒𝖊 𝖙𝖔 𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖊𝖒 𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝖞𝖊 𝖜𝖍𝖔 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖈𝖚𝖙𝖊𝖉

Fakebook is so over. These are the desperate actions of a dying empire. I would have left Fakebook years ago if it wasn't for my obsession with hillwalking and mountaineering. For the past few years I've used Fakebook to share pics of my mountain climbs, read about my friends' mountain adventures and chat about hillwalking and climbing.
But recently, even some of my hillwalking and mountain pals are leaving Fakebook, or just not posting so often. These are people with no interest in the alt media - there is a growing distrust of many of these corporate social media platforms. People used to think you were a conspiracy nut if you said that Fakebook was profiling you, or Google was tracking you. Now it's general knowledge. No one wants to be tagged any more. Many people don't even want you to take a photo of them unless you promise it won't be put on social media.

Thanks for the post @johnvibes. Upvoting and Resteeming. I have compiled a large amount of info on many sites that were banned today. I encourage others to add more to the comments so a larger assessment of who is being censored can be ascertained.

Huge Facebook Censorship Purge Enacted As Atlantic Council/NATO Partnered Social Media Giant Removes Over 800 Alternative Media Accounts

https://steemit.com/news/@clarityofsignal/huge-facebook-censorship-purge-enacted-as-atlantic-council-nato-partnered-social-media-giant-removes-over-800-alternative-media

The wolves of Facebook finally show their teeth and they are using them to destroy freedom of speech instead of protecting it, what happened to the guys that made their slogan don't be evil, looks like when the tables are turned, they too turned authoritarian huh?

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I’m sure it’s just a coincidence this was done just before the U.S. midterms. 🙄🙄🙄

It’s also yet another reason why I barely do anything on Facebook and come here to Steemit way more often now.

Holy shit, this is so horrifying. We truly live in a dystopia. >:(

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