It begins: Facebook deletes page of critic of Muslim migrant invasion

[rangerrebew]

It begins: Facebook deletes page of critic of Muslim migrant invasion

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/06/it-begins-facebook-deletes-page-of-critic-of-muslim-migrant-invasion

June 2, 2016 3:58 pm By Robert Spencer 

Yesterday I wrote that the new initiative of Twitter and Facebook to eliminate so-called “hate speech” would be directed not at jihad terrorists, or at least not solely, but also at foes of jihad terror and related issues. Now it begins. This kind of action is the death knell of free society.

 

“CENSORED: Facebook deletes a Gatestone author’s page!,” Gatestone Institute, June 2, 2016:

    Dear Readers,

    On Tuesday, the European Union (EU) announced a new online speech code to be enforced by four major tech companies, including Facebook and YouTube.

    On Wednesday, Facebook deleted the account of Ingrid Carlqvist, Gatestone’s Swedish expert.

    It’s no coincidence.

    Ingrid had posted our latest video to her Facebook feed — called “Sweden’s Migrant Rape Epidemic.” As you can see, Ingrid calmly lays out the facts and statistics, all of which are meticulously researched.

    It’s a video version of this research paper that Gatestone published last year. The video has gone viral — racking up more than 80,000 views in its first two days.

    But the EU is quite candid: it is applying a political lens to their censorship, and it now has teams of political informants — with the Orwellian title of “trusted reporters” — to report any cases of “xenophobia” or “hate speech” to Facebook for immediate deletion.

    It’s political censorship. It’s outrageous. And it’s contrary to our western values of free speech, political freedom and the separation of mosque and state. But in another way, it’s a tremendous compliment — the world’s censors think that Gatestone Institute’s work is important enough and persuasive enough that it needs to be silenced.

    Well, not if we have anything to say about it. We raised such a ruckus about this attack that the Swedish media started reporting on Facebook’s heavy-handed censorship. It backfired, and Facebook went into damage-control mode. They put Ingrid’s account back up — without any explanation or apology. Ironically, their censorship only gave Ingrid’s video more attention.

    Facebook and the EU have backed down — for today. But they’re deadly serious about stopping ideas they don’t like. They’ll be back….

[Optiguy]

We've been pretty blessed in this area as a nation. As more and more of this type of stuff is happening, I've experienced the emotions that were previously alien to me. I never knew what it was like to think, "Could this get me in trouble?" when it came to giving my opinion to anyone (other than my parents or wife). Having been a member of a so-called conservative site for seventeen years, I felt it. Seeing Sirius XM Patriot Channel suspend Glenn Beck this week for a hypothetical his guest spoke also gave me a glimpse of what's coming. The many ESPN suspensions recently for non-pc speech as well as the numerous teachers and students who've been suspended for not getting with the gender-identity program, have made clear we're heading the same direction. I'm reminded of the scene in the movie Independence Day where the ships are all positioning to strategic locations and the countdown clock means "checkmate". (I don't usually give movie analogies) I feel we're seeing the statists positioning more and more to the place where they can say checkmate.

[mirraflake]

I'm very optimistic the trend is going to change. The SJW are on the run and no one is taking their crap any more.

Check out the Milo Yionopulas (sic)  videos, Facebook, twitter  etc.  Record crowds of university are students coming out to see him. 

[mountaineer]

Maybe those of us with Facebook accounts should post this article and see what happens.

[Fishrrman]

"Facebook and the EU have backed down — for today. But they’re deadly serious about stopping ideas they don’t like. They’ll be back…."

The lights of freedom are slowly being extinguished in Europe, and elsewhere.

It's only a matter of time until that continent falls into its second Dark Age.

How much time do they have left?