Facebook is erasing popular alternative media pages that had millions of likes and suspending anti-war and anti-police brutality accounts, in coordination with Twitter. Journalist Max Blumenthal tells TRNN’s Ben Norton this is part of a larger political crackdown; EFF’s David Greene says the implications are dangerous.
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David Greene sounds like an establishment shill. Or he is just massively naive. I suspect the former.
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Max is so darn right on always.
Fedup with Silicon Valley punks and their egomaniacal bullshit.
We all know it is the same group of scumbags that want to rule the world that censor us.
Rise up America and become what you profess to be.
The progressive liberal "American Heritage: encyclopedia" (60,000 followers) was a multicultural, ecopolitical encyclopedia of American history and world heritage. There, I shared excerpts from my extensive collection of books on cultural anthropology, social psychology and climate history. There was also a lot on Central and South American cultures, along with Amazonian tribes like the Piraha, Yanomami and Xingu. Other topics included mass deforestation, petroeconomics, recent and past illegal wars, America's history of genocide and slavery with books by such authors as Howard Zinn, Roxanne Dunbar-Oritz, Gerald Horne, Ben Kiernan and Kevin Bales. I also have a considerable number of Thom Hartmann's books and his list of reading suggestions, along with those by Noam Chomsky, Richard Wolff and Chris Hedges.
Being among the most thought-provoking political pages, American Heritage: encyclopedia looked at everything from macroscopic perspectives, often sharing world news from non-Washington-lead sources like PressTV, TeleSur, Al Jazeera and RT. Over all, American Heritage had a strong indigenous and environmental rights message, similar to Survival International, Amazon Watch and Mongabay.
Don't trust this EFF guy one bit. He seems like a classic establishment careerist, not passionate about internet freedom. Voluntary recommendations, don't regulate, all very very weak to me.
This is an important and disturbing story. This also shows the problem with such concentration of Internet access into just a few big players. I watch a lot of photography videos and Max Yuryev's channel (Max Yuryev) was arbitrarily de-monitized. Max did a video saying how he tried to contact YouTube multiple times and only got a reply in Arabic (from YouTube)! This new communication technology is used by too many people to be subject to the capricious whims of random individuals at private enterprises. Facebook, YouTube, et al need to be at least regulated to provide for free speech, or liable for expensive compensation (lawsuits) for violating U.S. citizen's free speech.
All those channels pushing Global Warming (hoax) will remain. So The Real News is safe.
It takes Ben Norton twice as long to ask a question than any other interviewer.
Sites, forums, SM sites, have NEVER told us why they take us down. They have ALL the power & love to make people BEG.
They are mean-spirited control freaks.
The Nazis have coveted Russia for centuries. That means Russia must be “the enemy†to justify war/military buildup profiteering.
“Germany was the dress rehearsal for the United States.†Sid Haddad, NYC, 1970.
Why to use facebook anyway? Yu could as well try to publish your content in an old ladies magazine about celebrities, or an ultra right wing cat-breeding association magazine & then complain that you get rejected! If you try to promote your page by paying to Zuckerberg for your campaign you are accepting to be a part of the system that you critisize. Get out of shadow controlled platforms with dubious intensions. THE MEDIA IS THE MESSAGE!!
Max say it, I've heard this suppresion tactics from other channel owners as well.
Two main goals this voting year for progressives was getting money out of polics and medicare for all but it seems like the closer it gets to the election the less media outlets talk about it. Even independent media sources
Publicly-traded corporations voluntarily complying with international human rights standards for no profit while risking possible interference from federal agencies? That is absolutely the most liberal thing I've heard in a great while, and I am measurably stupider for having heard it this once. The dull taste of it lingers long in the brain.
What of the public interest? Electrical and telephone service were based on technological advances made by private investment and offered by private companies whose products became regulated as public public utilities once deemed necessary to a normal life. Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube have certainly attained normal status in daily life, and they aren't even based on technology developed by private investment. The technology from which they profit was developed by tax money, and it was never purchased from us. So, not only do we have precedent for regulating them publicly, we have a major investor's right of ownership to do so.
HYPOCRISY at its finest. Do you know how many foreign elections the USA has metaled in? How about the propaganda radio stations and loud speakers pointed at NK and Cuba.
Bring antitrust legislation to bare on Facebook.
Hello can we all raise awareness about the story i'm about to show you all and raise awareness and spread the story far and wide please? Thank you all. Deeply Disturbing Video Shows NYPD Cops Beat, Taser Sickly 85-lb Dwarf Man
The video shows police barge into a home, grab the 4' 8" sickly man, who weighed no more than 85 pounds and begin to attack him.
New York, NY — A very disturbing video taken by a disabled man’s brother shows NYPD cops violently assault a 4′ 8″ man during a call, tasering and punching him until he passed out.
According to police, they were responding to a domestic violence call — not made by a victim — but by a neighbor who heard commotion next door. William Colon is the 4′ 8″ tall, 85 pound man who police accused of domestic violence.
As the video shows, police tell Colon that he better open up the door or they will “blast it†open. When Colon opens the door, the cops barge in and throw the tiny sickly man down on his bed as they begin their assault.
“I was trying to ask them, ‘What did I do?’†Colon, who has no criminal record, told the Daily News in an exclusive interview. “I was very scared. I suffer from social phobia. I was very confused.â€
As cops barge in, multiple officers surround him—as if the shirtless 85 pound man with scoliosis was a threat. Officer Vincenzo Trabolse then begins pounding the child-sized man with his massive fists.
For good measure, Trabolse then pulls his taser our and starts zapping Colon until he falls unconscious.
As the Daily News reports, Colon is afflicted with a range of health issues that he claims have made him frail. He says he has Mauriac Syndrome, an illness related to diabetes that causes dwarfism. He is also asthmatic, has curvature of the spine and has an intestinal disorder.
“When they Tased me, my blood sugar skyrocketed,†Colon said. “I was very nauseous and pale and vomiting. They thought I was going to go into a diabetic coma. I had to go for X-rays. My body was sore and bruised.â€
“I was shocked at the sheer amount of brutality that the officers inflicted on him,†said lawyer Chris Pisciotta of the Legal Aid Society. “He was handcuffed. He wasn’t posing a threat. I don’t understand the lack of humanity of it.â€
Naturally, the NYPD and the District Attorney’s office are urging the public not to draw any conclusions from the video that shows their cops pummeling a sickly man 1/4 of their size.
“We understand there are questions regarding police conduct in this situation and we can assure the public we will continue to review all evidence and investigate that matter, but have no further comment at this time,†said a spokesman for DA Michael McMahon.
McMahon went on to then make a slew of accusations against Colon.
“The majority of the time he was in the hospital was for psychiatric observation because he had a history (of psychiatric issues),†the official said. “We have eight body-worn camera videos which support our report. And you can hear the brother saying, ‘Stop fighting, stop fighting, don’t resist’ the whole time.â€
Chief Patrick Conry, an NYPD spokesman, said the department is “ aware of the incident and there is an open internal affairs investigation.“
McMahon’s office defended charging Colon with assault and resisting arrest by claiming Colon hit his girlfriend, Lissette Torres.
“This is a case where the police responded to a domestic violence call where a woman suffered clear and obvious injuries to her face,†the spokesman said. “Justice requires that we take that matter seriously, which we do in all domestic violence cases.
Colon admits the two were arguing because Torres wanted to take back the gifts she gave him for his birthday, but as far as the hitting is concerned, Colon says that never happened and Torres agrees.
Torres told the Daily News that cops threatened her with arrest if she didn’t sign a complaint against her boyfriend of four years.
“They kept trying to get me to write a statement. I said I didn’t want to press charges,†she said. “They told me I was going to get locked up for vandalizing the house if I didn’t. I was frightened. I didn’t want to get arrested. They told me what to write word for word.â€
What’s more, Torres says that multiple cops have continued to harass her, telling her not to drop the charges.
Now, if Torres reverses her claim, she could be charged with making a false statement, even though she says police made her do it.
Below is this disturbing video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YugiNsFbcZM
This is going to fail in a big way. Because it’s so utterly blunt, and will turn out to be a big shot in the foot for Facebook. Of course I’m not sure about that. Their next steps will probably be to try to improve their algorithms to get fewer false positives while trying to detect sites they see as harmful. The problems is an increased and annoying scrutiny for most resulting in self censoring, while the actual real evil doers work hard to avoid detection. All may lead to more coded language use, and bizarre language deformation just for fun and in order to avoid detection. And there could be a whole rush or orgy of creative language inventions. – A true treasure trove for linguists and comedians. Looking forward to daily new jokes about algorithmic failures, as youngsters and pranksters outdo each other trying to trick the algorithms. Who gets banned gets a trophy.
RT. Where Americans in America covering American news are called foreign agents. –Lee Camp
Mark Stalin-berg has lost his mind .
2:30 very interesting
Anti Russian hysteria has been contrived by american political elite to promote censorship and to distract people from the real meddling in american politics by Israel and Saudi Arabia, the real powers behind USA foreign policies in Middle East.
Delete Fakebook and encourage everyone you know to delete Fakebook. I did a year ago and had thousands of fans with my documentary pages.
Thanks for you valuable service during these times of censorship.
David Greene is WRONG!!
Can any business operation in the public and discriminate? Absolutely not, and this is very well established law. A coffee shop can't discriminate and only serve Blacks. And Social media is in the public and they continue to block or ban political sites which is the users 1st amendment right! The leader of the House was looking into this and something needs to be done and done fast!!!
At the same time, they are massively rigging the elections in Brazil!
But they SURE won't attack Al-Jazeera will they?
Of course government should regulate social media sites. Government already "regulates" social media behind the scenes – isn't that obvious? Let's just bring it out into the open. Oh, that's right: "open" is a dirty word these days.
FaceBitches… A Revolution is in order, by whatever means necessary…
The government, or factions of the empire, are in control of facebook and the big social media platforms, maybe not officially, or in a regulatory fashion, but certainly behind the scenes, and cultivated before these platforms were even popular. Shut the facebook door and open an alternative window, open source social medium.
Did you ever get this feeling you were purged from FB for your views, then realized it wasn't worth your time anymore?
Ugh – what crappy, thin, electronic/processed-sounding audio – can't listen to this.
Fascibook…
When the major vectors of public discourse are privately owned get your knee pads out, because you're gonna be spending lot of time on them.
Government controlled corporate censorship.
The title says this is the 2nd half of a 2-part video pair, but I can't find the first video.
Disappointed in the CLU response. What we need is an independent platform for alternative news which allows free speech and different views and for which viewers are admonished to "independently vet" what they see and hear. After all the deep state would throw a few ringers into the fray. Operation Mockingbird is alive and well.
#deleteFaceberg
Let Facebook destroy itself. The GOP did the same thing to Newsvine the last time they were in office under Bush. It was a very anti-war invasion into Iraq site. It is gone due to the GOP under Bush. It is not the social media sites. It is this current administration. Other sites grew after Bush was gone. Remember Myspace? It is gone but social media is not. This time it is even better as more social media sites have emerged. Even better people are joining more than one social media site. Hopefully this site will make it harder.
Censor that GOP. You will be gone soon.
Power is with we the people. So an independent news website will not hurt due to the GOPs current censorship, we can share from it to social media.
Great discussion!!
What business does a think tank linked to NATO have in advising companies on which people to censor and deplatform? NATO is a military alliance. Why is a military alliance and its propagandistic support organization so interested in crushing dissent? Why do they feel so threatened? The Atlantic Council is the Ministry Of Propaganda for the Military Industrial Complex.
Israel needs to register as a foreign agent
No freedom of speech is wrong no matter what.