21st Century Censorship

Opinion by: Stewart Brennan

Topic today – Facebook censorship

I don't like Facebook because it is highly censored and will get even worse in the coming weeks and months. However, I still use facebook (Fakebook) in hopes that some truthful thing I’ve shared will resonate with others even through their heavy censorship...I hope to help build a better world for the next generation to come; therefore communication is a priority to making that world a reality...

Mass Communication

If a social media platform comes around that allows mass communication with their subscribers then that will be a real social media platform worthy of joining and an asset to investigative journalists and the truth seeking public...barring that, there is not one up and coming social media platform, that I know of, that will allow mass communication with all their subscribers as YouTube once did...so I’m stuck on Facebook until one comes along.

As far as other social networks go, the creators are not offering their subscribers mass communication either. These new and old platforms are in it for the money or to cast the illusion that you have an alternative...You don’t, at least no yet. I’m still waiting, but until that medium or platform arrives, I will continue to scream at the top of the mountain hoping my echo will catch ears…

As far as Facebook goes, news feeds, groups and mass communication died long ago...Facebook sided with the Orwellian deep state that is pushing the World into a corporate totalitarian governance that does not like its sociopathic authority questioned…I will not go silently into the night…and neither should you.

Here'a a Poem by the activist Poet that touches on Facebook's authoritarian program of censorship.

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Ever have a Facebook moment? See if this short poem rings true with you, and if it does, share it. ;)

Poem by ~ The Activist Poet ~

Facebook Row

Another Facebook time-out, they didn’t like what I said,

nor the posted pictures, of the terrorists who are dead.

I’m in political limbo, I’m not allowed to post,

Jailed by Facebook’s police, barred from coast to coast.

Caught by deep state censors, my words they say are bad,

I’m not allowed to use good terms for Putin or Assad.

My news feeds one-way traffic, visits are all blank,

Unless I bow to extortion, and pay them from my bank.  

Their advertisers hound me, I mark them all as Spam,

Greedy corporate pages of belligerent Uncle Sam.

Suggested friends make me shudder, who the F*** is that?

with pages blank and empty, another troll or rat.

I plan my re-emergence, Palestine posts are due,

I’m sure to piss off Zionists, facebook's other shoe.

So here I wait in penance, eager to do much more,

and celebrate my family, all activists to the core.

~ The Activist Poet ~

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About this Poem: Facebook is not a social network anymore, in fact it’s more of a US Intelligence program and corporate data mining tool / application that either penalizes users who do not fall in line with their politics, or data mines information while extorting small businesses for money.

Ask any activist who’s been isolated for their political posts or ask a musician who now has to pay out money for his page posts to reach those who already subscribed to their updates. After paying Facebook for putting posts on more of the bands subscriber news feeds, bands find themselves out of pocket with no real results, as its all just a numbers game and scam.

Now, Facebook has partnered with Fascist Dictatorship nations like Israel to censor what we can see or say. Together they become Orwell’s “Big Brother”…so being the Political Activist I am, here’s a middle finger; an F U Salute to Facebook and its censorship Regime and sponsors…

Link to Poem: Facebook Row 

LINK: Facebook Is Collaborating With the Israeli Government to Determine What Should Be Censored

Facebook Photo Source: Dr Rich Swier

British PM declares 'war' on protesters

British Prime Minister David Cameron

Source: Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/194092.html

British Prime Minister David Cameron has declared “an all-out war” against protesters who have been holding anti-government rallies in the United Kingdom.

On Monday, Cameron described the unrest in the UK as a "wake-up call" for the country and called for "an all-out war" against what he referred to as “gangs.”

Cameron also unveiled new tough measures to tackle social problems -- including tougher conditions on jobless benefits claims.

Earlier, the British premier recruited former New York police commissioner Bill Bratton as his consultant regarding the ongoing unrest in Britain.

The move sparked anger among British police who described it as “a slap in the face.”

The unrest in Britain began on August 6 in the north London suburb of Tottenham, after a few hundred people gathered outside a police station to protest against the fatal shooting and killing of a black man, Mark Duggan, by the police.

Thereafter, violent protests erupted in major cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol, contributing to Britain's worst unrest since the 1980s.

Reports say that more than 3,000 people have been arrested in the brutal crackdown of UK police on protesters across the United Kingdom.

Social media at the mercy of UK government

Source: Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/194039.html

Social networking firms Facebook, Twitter, and Research in Motion (RIM), maker of BlackBerry, have welcomed the forthcoming meeting with the British government.

British Home Secretary, Theresa May, is to hold a meeting with the executives of social networking firms to discuss the possibility of shutting down social media during future unrest in Britain.

Moreover, British Prime Minister, David Cameron, asserted that the unprecedented unrest across Britain had been mostly arranged through social media. Cameron acknowledged that “the police, the intelligence services and industry” cooperated with the government during the widespread unrest.

Cameron maintained that the British government had been looking at ways to prevent people from communicating with each other via social media when any sort of unrest threatens the country.

RIM, whose BlackBerry application has been a thorn in British government's side, has announced it would observe “both UK privacy laws as well as the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.”

Facebook has also expressed approval of the forthcoming meeting asserting that it took measures to make sure Facebook would be “a safe and positive platform for people in the UK” during the widespread unrest.

Furthermore, a report in the Financial Times said that Twitter looked forward to discussing the issues with May.

Meanwhile, Open Rights Group executive director, Jim Killock, has condemned government's plans to ban social media asserting that such measures infringe upon people's right to freedom of expression.

Killock said that the police should not be able to suspend individuals from using social media and any suspension decision should be made at courts.

All these measures by the British government come as the British media accuses the Iranian government of blocking access to the Internet and violating freedom of expression while the online version of almost all British newspapers have created a link to Facebook for an unfiltered access to the Iranian users.

Nevertheless, social networking sites, like Facebook, have become a national security concern after Britain faced widespread unrest which some analysts believe was a direct result of the government's policies.

British protesters could lose benefits

Source: Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/194055.html

Work and Pensions Secretary has revealed that those protesters convicted of disorder in recent unrests could lose their benefits, even if they were not issued a custodial sentence.

Iain Duncan Smith said that under current rules, those who are jailed for violence lose their handouts, but he is planning to extend the existing rules.

''I am at the moment looking to see whether or not someone who's convicted of a criminal offence but not custodial, that we would be able to impose a similar process on them as well, that they would lose their benefits for a particular period of time relevant to that process," he said.

He formerly published a report on the ways to deal with gangs, in which he said: ''you cannot arrest your way out of the street gang problem that we have.”

Instead, he declared that the government should use wider solutions such as education to “rescue” the children who are at risk of becoming gang members.

''When you crack down in one area and start to try this process of getting the kids out of the gangs, all that happens is you often displace them into other areas and then they just go on as they are. It needs to happen everywhere at the same time,'' Smith also said.

He claimed that recent unrests swept across Britain were set off by gangs, but then other people swept up by gang violence.

''A lot of them got swept up in what I call crowd mentality and lost their own moral compass. They just saw shops, they robbed them, sometimes they started smashing windows, throwing bricks at police, got caught up in a mob culture,” he said.

Smith added the convicted people would face the full penalties of the law as they failed to understand the difference between right and wrong.

Prime Minister David Cameron also said that those who were responsible for public disorder should be evicted from the council houses.

Claiming all irresponsibility must be punished, Prime Minister stressed that the people accused of disorder in the country must then get to be housed somewhere else, and they need to find housing in the private sector, which would be harder for them.