It happened in a hurry. The Left is,
apparently, attempting to impose a Final Solution on the First Amendment rights
of roughly half of America’s citizens. In cases large and small, massive
multinational corporations with no particular allegiance to the United States
are colluding with members of the media and Democratic politicians to permanently
silence dissent and cement and enhance their own power.
To wit: LeeAnn Miller founded
PatrioticMe, an online retailer that sells patriotic clothing items, in
September of last year. The business advertised on Facebook and was quite
successful from the outset. She donates a portion of every sale to the Tunnel to
Towers Foundation, a charity founded to honor the sacrifice of New
York City firefighter Stephen Siller, who gave his life to save others as a
first responder on Sept. 11, 2001. But, on November 4th, 2020, the
day after the presidential election, she received an email from the Facebook
Ads Team informing her that her advertisements did not comply with Facebook's
advertising policies or other standards. The subject line of the email stated: "Ad Account Disabled for Policy Violation.” She was stunned.
She assumed the
advertisements were disabled in error, so she immediately contacted Facebook
and requested a review of her account. She received a second email saying
virtually the same thing. After two more requests for a review or explanation, the
Facebook Ads Team sent Miller a final notice on November 24th telling her that
her restricted account would not be re-enabled. Miller says that she was never
able to speak with a live human being. Facebook’s decision has resulted in
PatrioticMe losing 94% of its traffic. She believes her ad account was disabled
simply because of her products’ patriotic message.
To wit: Frankfurt-based
Deutsche Bank and New York-based Signature Bank have both reportedly cut ties
with President Trump and will no longer do business with him, in the aftermath
of the recent Capitol siege, according to The New York Times. Not only did
Signature Bank apparently close all accounts connected with President Trump, it
called for his resignation. That’s the proper role of a financial institution,
no?
To wit: Juliette Kayyem, a
lecturer at Harvard University, and former member of the Obama administration's
Homeland Security Advisory Council, recently appeared on a CNN panel with Jim
Sciutto and Poppy Harlow, during which she said, "Trump is the spiritual,
but I will also say operational leader of this domestic terrorism effort. He tells them
where to go. He tells them what to do. He tells them why they're angry.” She
also called for the “complete isolation” of Trump. A supposedly respected
talking head calls the president of the United States “the spiritual and
operational leader of a domestic terrorism effort?”
Memo to Kayyem: Trump doesn’t
tell his supporters “why they’re angry.” If you want to know why they are
angry, look in the mirror.
To wit: House Democrats
introduced impeachment articles against Trump just a few days from when he will
be leaving the White House anyway. You know, for purposes of “unity and
healing.”
To wit: Former Republican
Congressman Ron Paul was locked out of his Facebook account by the social media
giant on Monday, after he dared to share a column blasting Big Tech for
silencing Americans and accusing social media platforms of engaging in a
coordinated effort to stifle the speech of those with whom they disagree. Paul
tweeted, "With no explanation other than ‘repeatedly going against our community standards,’ @Facebook has blocked me from managing my page. Never
have we received notice of violating community standards in the past and
nowhere is the offending post identified."
He added, "The only
thing we posted to Facebook today was my weekly 'Texas Straight Talk' column,
which I have published every week since 1976."
Yes, but it’s not 1976 anymore, Ron.
It is 1984.
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