Facebook is actively removing postings I'm making today. I maintain a foothold on Facebook, knowing its tawdriness and that it's no friend to progressive politics, because I oversee a family history-DNA project that's housed there. And Facebook is one way I can keep in quick touch with a wide circle of relatives and friends.

First posting removed today: Jess Piper's graphic (below) about white women voting in this election.

https://substack.com/@jesspiper/note/c-72832742

#Facebook #censorship #women #abortion
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Jess Piper on Substack

Substack

Second posting Facebook took down immediately: this excerpt from A.R. Moxon today —

"Nazism is on the ballot this year, and people who consider themselves Nazis know it, even if so many of the rest of us seem not to want to. So it came to pass that Nazis came to the pro-Trump boat show in Jupiter Florida last week."

#Facebook #censorship #Republicans #Trump #Nazis
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https://www.the-reframe.com/this-has-to-be-normal/

This HAS To Be Normal

Normalization in a time of madness, on behalf of a population dedicated to not knowing terrible things. Bearing witness in a supremacist nation on the verge of a Nazi takeover.

The Reframe

I understand that the word Nazi is an algorithm-triggering red flag, and the photo Moxon uses with MAGA folks flying Nazi flags is another one.

But it's perfectly obvious that Moxon is not promoting Nazis, but doing the opposite. So censoring any critical mention of Nazism to refer to Trump is pro-Republican censorship.

And when another posting with no such red flags is yanked immediately the same day, something more's going on here.

#Facebook #censorship #Republicans #Trump #Nazis
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@wdlindsy OTOH, I posted this on my county Democratic Party's FB page five days ago and it's still up. I'm guessing it's the phrase "white women" that got your first post TOS'd - FB is well known for TOS'ing any mention of whiteness.

(What prompted the post was a call from a male lifelong Republican who was afraid of retaliation if he votes for Democrats but Trump wins the election.)

@callisto Yes, I thought perhaps that was the trigger. And that, of course, inevitably favors all those who want to suppress discussion of how race determines so many of our choices. And that inevitably favors one of the two parties — so that FB censorship is far from honest and even-handed.