[governance] Facebook Even Censors ART & Facebook Yields to Pressure

Riaz K Tayob riaz.tayob at gmail.com
Sat Dec 29 07:50:51 EST 2012 

  Facebook Even Censors ART

Posted on December 28, 2012 
<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/12/facebook-even-censors-art.html> 
by WashingtonsBlog <http://www.washingtonsblog.com/author/washingtonsblog>
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/Image by William Banzai <http://williambanzai7.blogspot.com/>/


      Social Media Censorship is Rampant

Not only does Facebook 
<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/12/facebook-purges-political-activists.html> 
-- like all of the other large social media outfits 
<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/12/biggest-social-news-sites-censor-alternative-media.html> 
-- censor political speech, it also censors /art/.

Acclaimed artist Anthony Freda <http://www.anthonyfreda.com> told us:

    They suspended my account for a period saying my posts 'violated
    community standards'

    I say *they* violate *My* community standards by spying on us,
    mining and sharing our info and keeping our biometric data in facial
    recognition systems.

When a user of the popular Infowars Facebook page uploaded an 
uncopyrighted image of Bin Laden, that Facebook account was temporarily 
suspended 
<http://www.infowars.com/facebook-now-censoring-political-posts-as-hate-speech/>:

    Facebook is now apparently censoring political posts which violate
    its "Statement of Rights and Responsibilities" as hate speech, after
    the social networking giant threatened to close radio host Alex
    Jones' account over an image of Osama Bin Laden with the words
    "Al-CIA-da" written underneath.

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    Attempting to login to Alex Jones' Facebook account, which has over
    321,000 subscribers, Infowars staff were met with a message from
    Facebook denying access to the account until it was acknowledged
    that Facebook's terms had been violated.

    "We removed content you posted," stated the message, underneath
    which was a black and white image of Osama Bin Laden with the words
    "Al-CIA-da" emblazoned across it. Facebook removed the image because
    it "violates Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities
    <http://www.facebook.com/legal/terms>."

    A secondary screen then warned that other infringing images should
    be removed if the account was to remain in good standing.

    Since the image is not copyrighted, according to Facebook's terms of
    agreement one can only assume that it was removed because it
    represented an example of "hate speech," yet the picture was merely
    a commentary on the admitted fact that Osama Bin Laden was aided by
    the CIA during the cold war and that Al-Qaeda terrorists are now
    being supported by the Central Intelligence Agency in Syria and Libya.

This is, indeed, an admitted fact 
<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/09/sleeping-with-the-devil-how-u-s-and-saudi-backing-of-al-qaeda-led-to-911.html>. 
Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski admitted 
<http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-17/brzezinski1.html> 
on CNN that the U.S. organized and supported Bin Laden and the other 
originators of "Al Qaeda" in the 1970s 
<http://www.thenation.com/article/blowback-prequel> to fight the Soviets.

And -- in the name of fighting our enemies -- the U.S. has directly been 
supporting Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups for the last decade. See 
this 
<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/09/al-qaeda-terrorists-u-s-finances-and-supports-attack-embasies.html>, 
this 
<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/07/weve-always-been-at-war-with-eastasia-allies-with-al-qaeda.html>, 
this 
<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/08/u-s-government-is-prosecuting-christians.html>, 
this 
<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/08/is-america-the-worlds-largest-sponsor-of-terrorism.html> 
and this 
<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/09/sleeping-with-the-devil-how-u-s-and-saudi-backing-of-al-qaeda-led-to-911.html>.

Many Americans will be offended by the allegation of the former FBI 
translator - who has been deemed credible by the Department of Justice's 
Inspector General, several senators 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/15/national/15translate.html?ex=1153886400&en=13842175814b8e8c&ei=5070> 
(free subscription required), and a coalition of prominent conservative 
and liberal groups 
<http://web.archive.org/web/20071031085021/http://www.libertycoalition.net/state-secrets-privelage/coalition-letter-to-the-house-committee-on-oversight-and-government-reform-on-criminal-activities-by-the>, 
who the ACLU calls "the most gagged person in the history of the United 
States of America", and who Daniel Ellsberg says 
<http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5260> possesses information "far more 
explosive than the Pentagon Papers" -- that Bin Laden worked for the CIA 
/right up until 9/11 
<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/07/former-fbi-translator-bin-laden-worked-for-u-s-right-up-until-911.html>/. 
But that doesn't mean that she doesn't have the right to say it (or that 
it isn't true).

Maybe Facebook censors would have been happier if a /younger/ Bin Laden 
was shown wearing an Al-CIA-da shirt? (It is a funny coincidence that -- 
as the Guardian noted in 2008 -- Facebook was largely launched with CIA 
and neoconservative money 
<http://www.guardiannews.com/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook>.)

William Banzai -- who knows a thing or two about artwork, privacy and 
censorship -- writes 
<http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-12-28/social-media-protecting-you-reality>:

    Several items of interest surfaced over the Christmas Holiday with
    regard to Social Media Strip Mining and data cloud euphoria:

    1. Facebook's privacy settings are evidently too complicated for
    Zuckerberg's sister to navigate. Not surporising, they are not
    designed for anyone to successfully navigate. If you succeed in
    mastering Facebook's privacy settings, you are in line for Krugman's
    Nobel.

    2. Our Congress, which always has our best interests at heart do
    they not, managed to expunge the provision of the NDAA which would
    have required a warrant for government access to our email accounts.
    Surprised?

    3. Instagram, shifted into hyper-back-pedaling mode. Of course they
    want to convert user images to advertisements. Isn't that what
    Facebook wants to do? Stripmining user privacy.

    4. "Facebook's New Motto: If it's free, it's not the First Amendment."

    I don't mind that so many others use these services for seemingly
    inane purposes. Photo sharing is actually more engaging than sitting
    around watching TV when you get right down to it. It is two way
    communication.

    What concerns me is the way these giant social media players are
    displacing other traditional channels of content sharing and
    distribution, yet they obviously consider themselves exempt from
    well worn principles of free speech, privacy, open access and fair use.

    They cannot just say if you don't like it go somewhere else. That's
    not good enough.

    You can't deny access to so called "fringe groups" and allow
    mainstream political groups to remain ensconced.

    That is not the level playing field of ideas envisioned by the First
    Amendment.

    At some point, Facebook becomes a quasi-public space like Zucotti
    Park and they cannot just arbitrarily deny access to users without
    some form of due process.

    Their perfect commercial world is a world bereft of unpopular ideas
    or political controversy.

    A happy sheepful place.

    5. It was revealed that plain old fashioned email marketing provides
    a higher retail ROI than social media advertising, which also came
    behind display ads and web search...

In the ultimate revenge, Freda created a picture parodying Facebook as 
the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Freda explains:

    It's a play on the mysterious 2001 monolith that appears to
    influence human behavior, including the triggering of the use new
    technology and weapons, etc.

Face Facebook Even Censors ART 
<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Face.jpg>/Anthony 
Freda/ <http://www.anthonyfreda.com>

And here are more illustrations from Banzai 
<http://williambanzai7.blogspot.com>:

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  Facebook Yields to Pressure: Reactivates Political Critics' Accounts

Posted on December 28, 2012 
<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/12/facebook-yields-to-pressure-reactivates-political-critics-accounts.html> 
by WashingtonsBlog <http://www.washingtonsblog.com/author/washingtonsblog>


      Outcry Leads Facebook to Back Away from Overt Censorship

Prominent political critics confirmed to us that their accounts had been 
suspended or inactivated yesterday 
<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/12/facebook-purges-political-activists.html> 
in a coordinated purge.

But after we -- and others -- slammed the censorship, the activists' 
accounts have been reinstated.

Peter Dale Scott told us:

    The issue seems indeed to have been activism, but of many varieties,
    including gun advocacy. Above all it seems to have affected many
    more accounts in England than here. See the Guardian story on my
    webpage, now restored, also this:
    http://www.secretsofthefed.com/facebook-now-suspending-accounts-which-question-mainstream-media-reportingaccount-of-events/
    <http://www.secretsofthefed.com/facebook-now-suspending-accounts-which-question-mainstream-media-reportingaccount-of-events/>

    It is possible we [9/11 activists] were marginal victims of a
    procedure designed to prevent flash mobs (which alas we will never be).

    Ejournalism seems to have taken care of the problem. Let's take
    heart from this.

Michel Rivero writes <http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/209888>:

    Last night while I was sleeping the Magic Elves turned my Facebook
    account back on. I understand that most if not all of the other
    accounts were also switched back on. Frankly, I am honored to have
    been included in the list of leading political critics thus
    attacked. I feel like I made the varsity team!

    Not a word of explanation has been forthcoming from Facebook. This,
    I think, rules out an external hacker attack.

    The lesson to be learned here is that the alternative media has more
    power to affect change than we ourselves fully comprehend, and it is
    time to use that power.

Mike Adams of Natural News reports 
<http://www.prisonplanet.com/facebook-bans-gandhi-quote-as-part-of-revisionist-history-purge.html>:

    Facebook ... suspended our account and gave us a "final warning"
    that one more violation of their so-called "community guidelines"
    would result in our account being permanently deactivated.

    They then demanded we send them a color copy of a "government issued
    identification" in order to reactivate our account. Our account was
    removed from suspension just minutes before InfoWars posted its
    article on this Facebook censorship, and the Facebook page is now
    functioning at:
    www.Facebook.com/NaturalNews <http://www.facebook.com/NaturalNews>

Perhaps Facebook wrongly assumed that we aren't smart enough to notice 
<http://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-users-dumb-fucks>?

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