Silence the opposition

I got a notice from Facebook over the weekend, telling me that I something I posted violated Facebook’s community guidelines. I was thrown in FB jail again. That’s odd, I thought. I haven’t posted ANYTHING to Facebook in months, ever since I was tossed in FB jail for things that I had already been thrown in FB jail for before.

Some history. I stopped posting to FB when I was given a 7 day ban on January 10 because:

Multiple posts from the last year didn’t follow our standards.

Yeah, I know. You suspended my account no fewer than 11 times in the 12 preceding months. Still, I had done nothing new to merit such a ban. Because of that, I only made three posts after the ban ended on January 18. One was to change my profile pic to an announcement that I would no longer use FB, and instead would be found on Gab, MeWe, and Parler. The second was to post this picture:

Then the third was on February 24, which was a link to the article in TIME magazine, where they admitted to rigging the election. When I said the election was rigged, it got me a ten day ban. It turns out that I was right.

Still, what was it that I did to violate the community standards of FB this time? So I logged in to find out, and it turns out that I was banned again for posting this picture all the way back in August of 2020:

My punishment? Apparently, FB says that the business page that I manage is not permitted to do any paid advertising for 30 days. So what? I stopped all paid advertising for all of my businesses with FB a year and a half ago because of this exact sort of thing from them.

I don’t care about your website any longer. I am no longer providing content to draw eyeballs for you to sell, nor am I a consumer of the content of others that you are selling. Fuck off.

The reason that I posted my last post on crime statistics was because of my research on a post for local media. I shouldn’t have bothered. They are only interested in publishing their own version of truth.

They claim I violated their community guidelines, which I can’t find anywhere. It appears like they are:

I think that this happens because we were beating them in the realm of ideas. We were using facts and logic, while they were using emotions, hyperbole, and dick jokes. Once they realized that wasn’t working, it was time to silence us. This is the adult equivalent of putting your hands over your ears while yelling “LALALALA. I can’t hear you.”

Last week, I posted that a local TV station was censoring my comments. Here are some more of my comments that were censored in the past few days, with the station claiming that my comments violated community standards:

On people being required to wear masks, even after being vaccinated:

If you still need to wear a mask after being vaccinated, the vaccine is useless.

On businesses who can’t get employees because people would rather collect unemployment:

1 Call people who are on unemployment
2 Offer them a job
3 If they refuse, they are no longer eligible for unemployment. Report them.
4 Repeat as necessary

Community standards seem to include any opinion that doesn’t conform to the Democrat party line.

In comments to this article:

My comment, which I don’t think violated the TOS, was moderated and will not appear on the site. No bias here, nope.

EDITED TO ADD: I showed this to my wife, and her reply was “It’s their website, they can do what they want.”

I don’t want anyone to think that I support making their bias illegal. I am, however calling them out for being lying hypocrites for making the claim that the press is an unbiased purveyor of the truth. I am also calling social media for blocking so-called “false news” when their version is no closer to the truth than any other.