by: Ethan Huff
(Natural News) Journalist Matt Taibbi’s latest report about organizational censorship was, satirically enough, censored by Facebook for supposedly violating its “community standards.”
Taibbi’s report names Facebook some 31 different times, which is sort of definitely the explanation why Facebook axed it almost as soon because it was posted and shared. The Silicon Valley tech giant simply cannot allow people to talk against its ways, otherwise more of its users might decide to log off and delete their profiles for good.
Entitled “Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know,” Taibbi’s report calls out the top-known entities which might be erasing Americans’ First Amendment rights online, considered one of the worst offenders being Facebook itself.
Not long after he uploaded his report back to Facebook, the social media behemoth sent him quite a few notifications, which he screenshotted and shared to Twitter, explaining that the document won’t be allowed to be shared on the platform.
“Your post goes against our Community Standards on hate speech,” is what considered one of the notifications stated, adding that the reports is not any longer visible to anyone except Taibbi himself.
(Related: Remember when CrossFit bravely took a stand against Facebook, the censorship machine?)
Facebook threatens Taibbi, says if he ever does something like this again his account might be “restricted or disabled”
Not only did Facebook restrict Taibbi’s post, however the platform also issued a threat against him that if he ever tries to share something like this again, his account might be “restricted or disabled” entirely.
Threats of termination are essentially the most powerful weapon Big Tech has at its disposal to maintain the human herd in line, especially now that so many businesses depend on social media to operate.
Natural News, by the best way, figured this out an extended time ago, which is why this platform was built otherwise. We were banned from all the key social media sites an extended time ago, which is why there at the moment are free speech alternatives like Brighteon and Brighteon Social that don’t engage in this sort of censorship and threatening behavior.
Since Taibbi was given the chance to challenge Facebook’s punishment against him, he did just that, only to receive a “thanks” response from Facebook indicating that the platform will use it “to enhance our future decisions.”
In other words, the punishment and threat still stand, but Facebook will keep Taibbi’s concerns about this abuse in mind the following time it decides to punish another person for publishing “offending” content.
“That’s their method of claiming that you might have some sort of input into the method, which after all you don’t,” Taibbi later said about Facebook’s pointless response and feedback option, which never results in any positive changes.
“I mean, the truth is that [for] most individuals that is sort of a Kafkaesque endeavor where you at best have a likelihood of getting a change made or some sort of reversal when you know any individual who knows any individual who knows any individual at Facebook. And when you don’t, you then don’t, in order that’s sort of a loser.”
Taibbi, by the best way, was considered one of the primary to share internal documents from Twitter via “The Twitter Files.” These documents show that this other distinguished social media platform is a hotbed of censorship and other corruption, which in some ways continues to go unchecked even under Elon Musk’s leadership.
From The Twitter Files, Taibbi learned in a short time that there may be “a reasonably limited universe of funding sources which might be build up these big fact-checking organizations,” and yet they still appear to hold all-powerful control and sway over what gets shared on the web.
More of the most recent news about Big Tech’s silencing of free speech could be found at Censorship.news.
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