Over the weekend, we were surprised to learn that some readers were prevented by Facebook when attempting to share Zero Hedge articles. Subsequently it emerged that virtually every attempt to share or merely mention an article, including in private messages, would be actively blocked by the world’s largest social network, with the explanation that “the link you tried to visit goes against our community standards.”
Facebook has blocked all @zerohedge links, throwing up the following message: pic.twitter.com/iuc3UxWgE1
— Ollie Richardson (@O_Rich_) March 11, 2019
We were surprised by this action as neither prior to this seemingly arbitrary act of censorship, nor since, were we contacted by Facebook with an explanation of what “community standard” had been violated or what particular filter or article had triggered the blanket rejection of all Zero Hedge content.
To be sure, as a for-profit enterprise with its own unique set of corporate “ethics”, Facebook has every right to impose whatever filters it desires on the media shared on its platform. It is entirely possible that one or more posts was flagged by Facebook’s “triggered” readers who merely alerted a censorship algo which blocked all content.
Alternatively, it is just as possible that Facebook simply decided to no longer allow its users to share our content in retaliation for our extensive coverage of what some have dubbed the platform’s “many problems”, including chronic privacy violations, mass abandonment by younger users, its gross and ongoing misrepresentation of fake users, ironically – in retrospect – its systematic censorship and back door government cooperation (those are just links from the past few weeks).
Unfortunately, as noted above, we still don’t know what exact event precipitated this censorship, and any attempts to get feedback from the company with the $500 billion market cap, have so far remained unanswered.
We would welcome this opportunity to engage Facebook in a constructive dialog over the company’s decision to impose a blanket ban on Zero Hedge content. Alternatively, we will probably not lose much sleep if that fails to occur: unlike other websites, we are lucky in that only a tiny fraction of our inbound traffic originates at Facebook, with most of our readers arriving here directly without the aid of search engines (Google banned us from its News platform, for reasons still unknown, shortly after the Trump victory) or referrals.
That said, with Facebook increasingly under political, regulatory and market scrutiny for its arbitrary internal decisions on what content to promote and what to snuff, its ever declining user engagement, and its soaring content surveillance costs, such censorship is hardly evidence of the platform’s “openness” to discourse, its advocacy of free speech, or its willingness to listen to and encourage non-mainstream opinions, even if such “discourse” takes place in some fake user “click farm” somewhere in Calcutta.
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Only a brain dead drone would use Facebook for anything.
Just sent a message to my distro list that the CIA and its monster LifeLog/Facebook need to be banned. Not Zero Hedge. It’s surreal how rapidly this fascist movement is shifting into 2nd gear. Something must be lurking on the horizon.
I think I covered all the bases here
Posted on 03/11/2019 by Wirecutter
Today my latest Facebook 30 day suspension was up. I had to do a post on it to stay in their good graces.
I’m out of FB jail again. Out of the past 61 days, I’ve been suspended for 60 of them.
Last time I got suspended, it was a whopping 23 hours and 56 minutes before I got popped again.
But I’ve learned my lesson. I got my mind right, Boss. I have seen the errors of my ways.
I apologize to any stupid motherfuckers I may have offended, including but not limited to: anybody not living in the Great State of Tennessee in general and damyankees in particular, black folks, white trash, wiggers, Metsicans, Indians (feather, not dot) Hindus, Puerto Ricans, fucking Ayrabs, Asians, welfare rats, lowriders, tweekers, drunks, Chihuahua owners, ignorant people that think Mossberg puts out a great shotgun, Episcopalians, Krazy Kat Ladies, Rick Marshall, anybody that thinks possums are cute, hipsters, hippies, politicians, most redheads, people that watch sports, anybody that enjoys snow, motherfuckers that dip Skoal instead of Copenhagen, people that drink gin, Air Force Veterans, men that dress up as women, women that think they’re men, anybody that doesn’t own a 1911 or an AR, Chevrolet owners, the ATF, Frenchmen, anybody that wears Levis instead of Wranglers, men that shave every damned day, women with hairy legs, motherfuckers that don’t like fried okra, ugly babies, Glock owners, people that microwave bacon, Walmartians, Canadians, anybody that doesn’t like cactus with their eggs, drugstore cowboys, Catholics, people that swim even when they haven’t fallen out of a boat, anybody that wears a cowboy hat and tennis shoes, men that wear gay looking bedazzled jeans, Smart Car owners, people that go to malls and finally, anybody that uses a kydex holster.
Yeah, I have no idea what I’m going to post about now.
http://knuckledraggin.com/
When he apologized to Indians, I thought he was being sincere. So we’re good.
I’m in many of his categories – damn Yankees, people who don’t live in Tennessee or own an AR-15. I accept all of those apologies- except for cross dressers. We’re still pissed about that. Ladies’ clothes have a wider array of color choices.
ALRIGHT MOTHERJUMPER! The Mossberg comment has crossed the line!!!!!!
Wasn’t me. Complain to wirecutter on knuckledraggin
I am definitely a stunad but I did see the attribution.
i was cheering him on but then,but then,but then the ahole nailed me a few x–
i’m a drunk,i used to own a chevy truck,i shave even on the weekend,i own a glock,i microwave bacon,i married a catholic(woman this time),i swim,my wife’s hairy legs keep me warm in the winter–
admin,ban this ahole–
You’re marrying a Catholic man next time? I think we still have a rule against that – although with this heretic of a fake pope, who the hell knows?
I don’t believe I’d have told all that…
why Glock tho’?
Elizabeth Warren Ads Banned From Facebook
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-11/elizabeth-warren-ads-banned-facebook
The are banning my homey Warren? I mean, she is an Injun! Thass raciss. Bastards. Now they have gone too damn far. Gonna hafta count coup on their sses.
llpoh,
you & warren are about the same age,from the same area,you have enough in common to get acquainted,maybe you could light a flame w/her?
you just gotta know that her guy is an elderly soyboy if he puts up w/her crap–
kiss & tell,let us know how it was–
llpoh has been vindicated.
Even tho’ I haven’t utilized Fakebook for more than seven or eight years and had used it sparingly for about a year, and that only to humour an instructor, now I know for certain:
I HATE FUCKING FAKEBOOK AND DETEST THE EVIL MARK SUCKERBERG EVEN MORE.
Tyler Durden stands tall in my book. OK, the Z.H. comment section gets a tad weird but it gets that way on any free speech site. Even here.*
*See TBP’s mint undergarment story for details.
Peq.
Fuck Facebook. I closed my account a year ago when the deleted one of my posts.
More and More alternatives are becoming available. Let us not lose any sleep or conversation about it.
They only win if you care.
True. Never had a FB account or any other social media account except LinkedIn. Never will.
Same..never had Facebook..tweeted… linked up…and use Duck Duck Go… won’t even download Chrome to spy on me… don’t need them, my life is quite full.
Looks like “Fakebook” may be inadvertently creating a critical mass of banned sites and individuals large enough to economically support an alternate competitor. Oops.
I figure it’s because ZH has been carrying some TBP articles and quite a bit of Doug’s stuff… just sayin’… anyone try to share any TBP posts over on FB?
Just hang Fuckerberg.
Seriously, the actions of Facebook/Zuckermydick are what occasionally make me think Yo may be onto something. They are truly fucked up.
Whaaaaaaat?
I can’t use Shitbook any less.
ZH will be around long after FB has gone the way of MS (myspace).
Robert Gore
When I worked for Boeing, a coworker set up an account(s) for me and I got notifications on the network when people posted. Haha… I can’t access the account any longer but I still occasionally see notifications.
If anyone knows Maggie Garoo on FB or Myspace, tell her hello from an old, old colleague. Old.
My first choice as a kid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQKBMdkWc9E
Due to all of this censorship by these big tech companies a brain cell or 2 is starting to consider voting for E. Warren. Trump said he would do something about it, but then he said a lot of things that he clearly didn’t mean. But fear not! I don’t vote, nor will I ever lift a finger to legitimatize this loony tunes cartoon shit show..
Awe! Look at that. I got my first down vote. Isn’t it cute. Apparently I upset someone, which brings me great joy and a sense of accomplishment. Since I hate both the left and the right I suspect I’m going to be a big hit in this echo chamber.
A free pointy hat and a stool facing a nice wall. Everyone needs a spot.
Welcome to TBP
Well, the rent is cheep enough here, and when the lighting and temperature is right, I look and feel exceptionally good in pointy hat’s. Thanks for the warm welcome and sporty attire!
Faceplant only THINKS it’s the center of the universe. Ditch it!
ZH banned me for complaining they will not allow ZH account holders to delete their accounts. They are no better than FB. Then several months later they offered to restore my account, but when I went in to see what they were doing, my account was restored but I couldn’t comment. Just Like FaceBook. Hilarious hypocrisy at levels never imagined. Hopefully the day will come when you all realize that neither side of this equation (left or right) has your best interest in mind.
I hear ya ! I got banned from the great and powerful infowhores site……the ‘libertarian’ Alexa Jones…..for continually warning the lemmings that, if Trump gets elected, Hillary WILL NOT go to jail, the wall WILL NOT be built, and the military WILL NOT be brought home……
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum- since then, I sometimes listen so I can hear him whine and cry about being ‘banned’ on FB, tweaker, and other social mind control sites.
Zero hedge banned me in 2016, my own fault as I went on a serial down voting campaign on an article they did on black Friday using a video from CNN, fucking pissed me off, video felt packaged to me.
The platform is a far better blog and that’s why I support it.
Carry on….
If anyone reading this message is still on fakebook, shame on you. You are absolutely part of the problem. There are hundreds of other sites and ways to share content and connect with friends and family. We need to pick a future date and start a “delete facebook day” so enmass they lose tens of millions of real subscribers at once. You are their product and they shit on you constantly. You have zero privacy and most dont even know the iphone allows everything you do, say, type, go to be shared with fakebook even if you are not a user and never were. Its an embedded app that cannot be removed from all iphones. And you naively cannot believe fakebook is not deepstate nsa…..wow wake up people. Go get/read facts of how the nsa funded zuckerschmuck while in college through payments to his professor and the college for “grants”. Get rid of your iphone. 99% of people call, text, play games, use internet, read email. Too many older devices without as much snooping are available. You dont need all the power iphones give you. Most people never use 5% of the capabailities of the iphone and waste $1,000 overpaying for the pocket computer/tracking device. Go get an old blackberry they cannot be easily decrypted. Damn near needs a warrant. You can get the 99% of what you need from it and no longer be a profit center to these corrupt fascist.
Vote Trump 2020
Its bad enuf now, what would it be like with Pocahontas in charge..
Turquoise instead of gold drapery in the White House?
All righty now!
Well, I have a FB account, but that’s my business and none of anyone else’s. I have no obligation to explain why.
Having said that – I do have a very poor view of Frickin’ Book, and I was all set to delete my account if they did what I was expecting. I’ve posted several times that if they ever put me into ‘FB jail’, I’ll never be back. So, I linked to this very article off of ZH. Guess what? It still works!
Hmm.
Reminds me of that evil guy in a James Bond movie, The one with the female Chinese agent.
Just found this posted at ZH comment section….
Here is the full article from “Accredited Times”.
https://www.accredited-times.com/2017/10/09/zero-hedges-tyler-durden-outed-russian-agent/
I have never understood what it matters who speaks truth if it is unassailable, objective truth. Whenever a “debater” (I use that term loosely when it comes to miscreant Newspeakers) goes ad hominem, you know the victim is close to truth. Hitler believed a grand infrastructure project would increase the efficiency of both military and commercial ops. Hitler was a fucking monster. Was he wrong about the Autobahn?
You are right. It doesn’t matter who speaks the truth, but it does matter that they tell you the whole truth. Sure, some people attack the character of a person in an attempt to minimize anything the person has to say thereafter. However, that is no guarantee the victim is telling the truth. Being called a liar and being called a queer are different, but in terms of character assassination there is not much light between the 2.
I’m more suspicious of people who keep secrets. Moreover, I don’t need to know the details of the secret. I just need to know how many to conclude the person is a wild card. I know too many people who do not keep many secrets, so why waste time and gamble on people who have a problem being forthright?
I don’t condone the ad hominem nonsense. I find people who use them to be monsters, but like Hitler, does that mean the writer of the article I posted is wrong about Daniel? 🙂
The comment above is mine. I forgot to sign in.
Thank God you cleared that up. I was tortured wondering about that.