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scrapmetal misfit's avatar

Today I shared a vid of a local council meeting in Pt. Headland Australia. It was immediately removed by Facebook declaring it to be misleading.

They were voting to send the federal government a letter asking for an enquiry into coved vaccines.

It is a lonely existence when no one I talk to thinks there is anything wrong in this world.

Lena's avatar

Meta and YouTube censorship has been recently outsourced to the AI. They are not even human anymore.

Whoever does not think like AI expects, posts Substack links and all that, gets deleted. They deleted my whole account with all content and messages. Just because. Not letting me to save anything, no warning.

Imagine automated police arresting you and you being prosecuted and sentenced by an AI court .

Chill The Monk Out's avatar

It’s blackrock. They will be in the top 2 or 3 shareholders of almost any major company you can think of, including social media, news, weapons, pharma, processed food, finance, etc etc

They have board room level control of the media that promotes the wars (pick a crisis), spreads the fear, gets people arguing online, controls the results on search engines, makes money from the war, makes money from the aftermath of the war (e.g. the regeneration). And then the big movie firms make films about the war (blackrock are also major shareholders in the movie companies)

If you look up the major shareholders of almost any company (88% +) in the S&P 500 and you’ll see three firms come up constantly. Normally with blackrock as the major shareholder

Patricia's avatar

Ya hit THIS one out of the park!

Valid, succinct , and very spot ON.

fav24's avatar

This is an absolutely vital, critical issue / problem.

Marshall McLuhan said way back when “the medium is the message” and who controls it is critical. Chomsky said it was all about manufacturing consent. All means to attract and distract.

Its all right, we are only mass murdering terrorist Muslim

Arabs, nothing to see here, now watch the football/NASCAR/NBA.

Now, we have completely unaccountable un$ocial media companies censoring us in a completely unaccountable ways. Defying the First Amendment.

They censor you and you have absolutely no recourse.

Fark you and you 63,000 subscribers.

They block you and put you out of action and so silence you. Cannot let the truth out, so damn inconvenient.

Sub Stack articles cannot be posted/linked to FB, Normal Island News gets blocked.

So, even if we want to counteract the fire hose of disinfo, misinfo and BS by not spreading their BS we can’t and we are either been shutdown or blocked.

This is a predicable outcome of corporate un$ocial media but still VERY troubling.

PerraVerde's avatar

I totally gree with your points BUT you keep writing 'kerb' which is a bit of pavement when you mean 'curb' which isn't.

(Sorry to be pedantic.)

Jess Hansen's avatar

"We lose total control" -HRC

Uhhhh...yeah, that's the idea, Hildebeest.

JK's avatar

She looks like she could be Tulsi Gabbard’s younger sister.

Nigel Davies's avatar

No doubt things are getting worse, censoring views is the finger in an almighty damn that cannot contain the volume of truth that will inevitably wash over the entire perversion of fact

Michael Eby Barr's avatar

Speaking of active suppression and censorship, my *uniquely named* open-source project, OpenV2K, just received an astroturfing-like attempt to disinform search engine users, that my fuck-the-establishment project is really just some European shell company run by some no talent ass clowns: openv2k.com

That's not my domain, and there's more information posted in the first search result :3

Susan Morris's avatar

Recently, the Caitlin Johnston posts I've shared on fb were removed.

Miechelle Michaelis's avatar

It is surreal that I have been aware of this charade since 1975. The plane door opened and i stepped off the plane to the smell of sewage raw baking in the 125 degree heat. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia This govt and the others have done nothing but murder rape pirate and pillage for hundreds of years. This empire must fall.

Kevin Donnellon's avatar

I've regularly posted stuff by other writers only for Farcebook to remove them. Caitlyn Johnson regularly gets removed and twice Farcebook removed the satirical column of Normal Island News - the brilliant spoof of Laura Kuenssberg.

Lisa Fuchs's avatar

Do you think they regret that 1984 was on the national school syllabus for the last 60 years?

Dx's avatar

It's been reclassified as non-fiction.

Jack Horner's avatar

I'm convinced that dystopian fiction are simply used as manuals by TPTB.

Mad Max, The Road, Brave New World, 1984 etc etc etc

Dx's avatar

And definitely Parable of the Sower, and Parable of the Talents.

Mark Keating's avatar

The crazy thing about John Kerry? He got famous for appearing before a congressional panel when he was just a 2nd lieutenant, fresh from Vietnam, and asked of that war, "who will you send to be the last man to die for a lie?" But that was before he married the Ketchup Queen and joined the 1%.

Suze's avatar

I replied to a post by Tan on IG on Sunday, making an anti-war comment and linking it to Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine and an article by Arwa Mahadi about being a Palestinian American. The post wasn’t even published. Apparently I was trying to get “likes, followers and comments using misleading information”. It’s scary.

Jack Horner's avatar

Casually tell 50 people unlikely to hear otherwise. Get this news out there.

Suze's avatar

I think I’m a bit safer on here rather than Meta. So I shall comment when I can.

Jack Horner's avatar

Great! Though I actually meant out there, in real life. We getting to a position where we may have to rely upon the wits and wisdom of our neighbors, rather than safe online bubbles, comfortable and bubbly though they feel!

Your real life, first person anecdote is the backdrop for others to make informed decisions.