Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Blasphemy Law Comes to Facebook


From the American Thinker:

Over the last couple of weeks Facebook has clamped down heavily on various (around 40) counter-jihad and patriot pages.
The administrators of these pages were shocked when they logged on and found that their pages had suddenly 'disappeared'. In some cases Facebook has made this statement: 'Your Page was flagged for content containing nudity, pornography or sexual solicitation.' The page admins, however, have claimed not to have posted anything with explicitly sexual content. What will have happened is that Muslims, and/or the Leftist whores/enablers-of-Islam, will have 'reported' these pages for 'sexual content' knowing full well that it would be much more difficult to make a political/religious case for banning them. (I've been reported by a Hope Not Hate (UK) member, and then banned by Facebook, for an innocent cartoon image -- Facebook used the phrase 'sexual content' then too.) These pages will therefore have been consistently reported by Muslims, and/or Leftists, for anti-Islamic content, not for sexual or violent content.
So, perhaps unknowingly, the automated machine that is Facebook will mainly respond to Muslim and Leftist 'reports' without looking into their true nature and seeing they are in fact being taken for a ride by such people. And because Facebook is free it simply won't have the manpower to check all reports. Thus it will ban indiscriminately -- on reports alone. Either that, or the Muslims and Leftists who work for Facebook are taking matters into their own hands by imposing Sharia Blasphemy Law on Facebook without its owners, or those at the top level, knowing this.
Here are some of the pages banned by Facebook recently.
On the 19th on June, 'Ban Islam' was itself banned. ('Ban Islam' had at least 45,000 followers.) The admin immediately set up 'Ban Islam 2' only to be banned again a couple of days ago. 'Islam Against Women', 'Islam Free Planet' and many others have also been banned. The blog Sharia Unveiled estimates that around 40 pages have been banned in the last couple of weeks. And, as that blog puts it, 'from what we are hearing, this is only the beginning'.
None of this is a surprise. There has been a huge effort by Muslims and Islamic groups to get rid of certain pages -- or all pages! -- which are critical of Islam (in any way whatsoever!). Of course they have focused on the most popular ones to begin with.
This campaign to get Sharia Blasphemy Law implemented on Facebook dates back to at least 2010. To take just one example of this. There is a page which is honest it its extremism and about how absolutist it is about all criticism of Islam. Its name alone betrays that extremism: 'We want Facebook to remove all groups & pages that [are] against Islam'. In that page you can find the following statement:
"This page is created for the sole purpose of removing all the groups and pages that are against Islam. If 50,000 people report those Groups and Pages than Facebook will disable."
It is partly an organisation called Islamic Socialist Network responsible for some of these assults on free expression (according to the American blog 'Sharia Unveiled'). This 'network' ran a website called 'Union Star Network'. However, in the last 24 hours this website/blog has itself been closed down. I can only assume that this has been in response to critics of the 'Wanted' posters which many Internet users may have 'reported'. On that website there were (I saw them myself) indeed various 'wanted' posters which offered rewards of up $1 million for personal information on the admins of patriot and counter-jihad pages. Of course the Islamic and Leftist totalitarians are also intent on banning or hacking websites and blogs too (e.g., 'Your Daily Muslim' is one victim of this campaign for the elimination of all contradictory views), not just Facebook pages.

7 comments:

Always On Watch said...

Let's face it....All counter-jihad sites are on borrowed time.

Nicoenarg said...

We can always host our blogs on servers in North Korea like thepiratebay.sx does.

When an American asks for asylum in Russia. When China is more capitalist than the US. When Russia sides with the right side in the war in Syria...and when it is safer to host websites in North Korea than in the US or any other country in the Western world.

One really has to wonder what kind of world we're living in.

Are Russia, China, North Korea and the likes better than the US and the Western world?

God save us all when this question can be answered in the affirmative.

Pastorius said...

The Infidel Bloggers Alliance will be fine. We can have our own servers whenever we want.

At this point, I believe it's better to be on Google, because Google has more money to put into keeping everything up and running.

But if we have to, we can migrate everything over to our own servers.

Nicoenarg said...

Pasto,

Apart from the already built tools and storage you get for blog posts, is there any other advantage that blogs have by staying with Google, like search results, faster loading times, etc?

Pastorius said...

People who host their own blogs on their own servers have to deal with DNS attacks - they have to deal with getting hit with too many readers and having their servers crash. They have to deal, i would assume with viruses.

I don't want to worry about that shit.

Nicoenarg said...

Viruses aren't a big problem since most of the servers are run on Linux (Linux is not immune to them, just more secure). But yeah, you do have to worry about the rest of the stuff.

Epaminondas said...

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