Why Steem Exist - Facebook Bans Canadian Libertarian For Saying It Targets Conservatives!
Facebook has issued libertarian Canadian commentator Lauren Southern with a 30-day suspension after she criticised the social network for banning the administrator of a right-wing Facebook page.
Only a few days after the widely publicised meeting of “top conservatives” with Mark Zuckerberg to address censorship of conservative media on Facebook, it seems the site is up to its old tricks of silencing conservatives and right-wingers.
The admin of Disdain for Plebs, a pro-Trump, alt-right Facebook page, was banned for arguing that Trump was not anti-Muslim, but anti-ISIS, and that his proposed ban on Muslims was not due to innate racism, but because “Homeland Security cannot differentiate which Muslim is radical wanting to cause harm and which is a harmless refugee.”
Facebook moderators, however, apparently considered this to be wrongthink. The post was subsequently removed, as can be seen below, and the account suspended.
Ms. Southern then posted on Facebook that she thought it was “utterly insane” that the ban was administered for something as simple as that. Facebook then proceeded to delete the post and ban her too!
See full article at Breitbart: http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/05/21/facebook-bans-canadian-commentator-for-saying-it-targets-conservatives/
Steemit Inc. is a U.S. company, which is tied to the common restrictions and has to remove copyright violations and other things that break U.S. law. They filter those posts to not display them on steemit.com
If it should get too bad, anyone can set up an alternative platform with steem as backend.
The inevitable Steem HYDRA! :D
"If a head is cut off, two more will take its place!" Mouhahaha
that was a misclick downvote, (meant to be upvote) which I can't seem to change. :(
This is precisely the reason Steem will be a major force in social media. People will tire of the censorship and advertisements. Facebook has recently admitted conducting broad psychological experiments on its users as well. None of this is possible with a decentralized platform. If one third-party service started censorship, all users could move to another service and have an interface with the exact same content.