Facebook is censoring political critics.

We’ve previously documented that the largest social media websites censor government criticism.
For example, Facebook pays low-wage foreign workers to delete certain content based upon a censorship list. For example, Facebook deletes accounts created by any Palestinian resistance groups.

Today, Facebook deactivated the Facebook accounts of some of the leading American political critics.

For example, former diplomat and U.C. Berkeley Professor Emeritus Peter Dale Scott told us that his Facebook account was suddenly deactivated today without any justification.

So did Richard Gage, founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

And Michael Rivero, owner of the popular website What Really Happened.

Infowars – one of the world’s most popular alternative media sites – confirms that accounts for the following political commentators have been shut down:

• Kurt Nimmo, writer for Infowars.com and formerly Counterpunch

• Aaron Dykes of Infowars

• Jason from Infowars

• Infowar Artist

Indeed, Facebook told an Infowars reporter last year not to post anything political:

Be careful making about making political statements on facebook … facebook is about building relationships not a platform for your political viewpoint. Don’t antagonize your base. Be careful and congnizat (sic) of what you are preaching.

And Infowars also confirms that the Facebook account for Natural News – one of the most popular alternative health sites – has been shut down.

Reports are that the Facebook accounts of a number of other political critics were suspended or deactivated today as well, including:

• Amber Lyon, 3-time Emmy Award winning CNN reporter

• Robert M. Bowman, former director of the “Star Wars” defense program under President Ronald Reagan

• William Rodriguez, 9/11 hero

• Anthony J. Hilder, popular radio host

• William Lewis

• Weare Change, popular citizen journalism group

• Wacboston

• Michael Murphy

• Mike Skuthan

• Packy Savvenas

• Sean Wright and Katherine Albrect

Update: Facebook Yields to Pressure: Reactivates Political Critics’ Accounts

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• 12 trees

  more info related to your recent HSBC post:
  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/12/26/hsbc-skates/
  note links in comments
  
  

• JohnH

  Two sites I visit have been attacked by malware. I suspect that its intent is to silence criticism. The sites are justworldnews.com and truthdig.com

  • hidflect

    Include http://truthiscontagious.com/。Basically any site too critical of Isr@el.
    
    

• http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu/  RhymesWithRight

  No need for “justification” — they are a private company providing a free service which they can withdraw at their discretion.
   
  Russell Lawrence Benford:  First they came for the communists,and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.
  
  Then they came for the socialists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a socialist.
  
  Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
  
  Then they came for the jews, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.
  
  Then they came for the catholics, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a catholic.
  
  Then they came for me,and there was no one left to speak for me. 
  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/12/facebook-purges-political-activists.html