Both Meta social media platforms — Facebook and Instagram — blocked a quote this week from Founding Father Thomas Paine advocating free speech.
Reclaim The Net reports that many Instagram and Facebook users shared a similar problem on Monday and Tuesday. The “Meta” platforms had either removed posts or temporarily blocked accounts that had uploaded a picture and quote of American revolutionary Thomas Paine.
“He who dares not offend cannot be honest,” read the quote, published in the Pennsylvania Journal April 1776.
Paine wrote the pamphlet Common Sense Series of pamphlets and brochures A Crisis in AmericaHistory has widely recognized both as having been influential in the formation of the American Revolution.
Ironically, or perhaps not, the new American censorship crisis continues to be fuelled by the giants of social media Facebook and Instagram. They censored one of America’s first free speech pioneers. Paine strongly disputed the divine right to kings, and argued that God supports commoners in America against an oppressive monarchy.
Facebook apparently told several posters on the platform that their messages were moved for violating the platform’s “guidelines on vaccines health misinfo,” according to screenshots posted in the story. Apparently, American tyrants are becoming so paranoid about controlling the vaccine narrative that even this country’s Founding Fathers aren’t immune from the current wave of oppression.
Instagram flagged Quilette Managing Editor and evolutionary biologist Colin Wright’s post about Paine as “false information,” Wright said.
This isn’t the first time leftists have come against Founding Fathers.
A Federal Reserve memo surfaced in June that included “Founding Fathers” on a list of “offensive” words and phrases that employees should not use. In February, a writer on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show called the Founding Fathers “douche nozzles” in an unnecessary, pathetic attempt to distinguish the great abolitionist Harriett Tubman from them.
Angela Rye, a CNN leftist commentator, said that Thomas Jefferson was likened to R. Kelly in July 2020. She also suggested that Mt. Rushmore must be demolished, and the face she dictated should be replaced.
Big Tech recently has shown a hyperactive response to what it perceives as COVID-19 misinformation.
Twitter slapped an American Heart Association link with an “unsafe” label when the group published a study warning that COVID vaccines dramatically increase risk of heart inflammation. Facebook fact-checker Lead Stories last month attached “fact-check” and “missing context” labels to a British Medical Journal post stating that a researcher revealed data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial.
And most sweepingly, Twitter earlier this month quietly announced that it would permanently ban users who post five pieces of content about COVID-19 that the company doesn’t like. The company said it is taking the measures to combat “misinformation.”
Conservatives are being attacked. Contact Facebook at (650) 308-7300 and demand that the company not censor content from this country’s Founding Fathers. We can help you if your information has been blocked. Contact the Media Research CenterUse the contact formHelp us to hold Big Tech responsible.
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