Not wanting to sound critical, but I think all this demonizing of facebook lacks a rational basis. I use it to promote my views on passenger rail and also know a lot of people from the college I went to 40 years ago - who tend toward straight-up Communism.
About once a month for the past 8 years I have posted - either in my own words or those of the subject of my post - some form of flat-out Holocaust Denial, and have never had it taken down or censored. Not once. This is not to say it hasn’t been tried.
At one point there was this real domineering Kike type who went to the head of our high-speed rail enthusiast group - the actual founder of the group - and was extremely critical of him because his moderators wouldn’t ban me or shut me up. He posted something he later took down saying how the head of the group was not qualified as such, and that he would be making efforts to have him replaced. (Regardless that the whole facebook group/page is an extension of his thought - typical kike in terms of respect for intellectual property.)
The upshot was the Kike (a really skilled and greasy operator in this kind of thing) also went to the facebook moderators, and while one of them immediately pulled my “offending” comments, they were later put back up - within a few hours - without anyone going to the FB moderation people to impel it, evidently because censorship arising from hurt feelings over Holocaust Denial is not consistent with FB policy.
I know the moderators of the group and they did nothing to get my comments reinstated. However, one of them, a particular friend of mine, finally ended up pulling the whole huge thread, and instating a new one with the same title. (which no one looked at.) This after continuous and probably extremely bothersome long-term harassment by the Kike in question - What a hateful asshole!
It makes me wonder, what with Alex Jones - who has significantly stepped up his Holocaust Affirmation lately, to the point of extreme tiresomeness - and everyone coming down on facebook worldwide. Whereas of the big three it seems relatively benign: I mean doing a Google search is like talking to Gracie Allen - don’t try and do Holocaust research using THAT! The whole thing is geared to censoring anything they don’t like, all over the internet. On Facebook I was able to get in touch with old friends who I never otherwise would have heard from again, with whom I now communicate daily - one of whom has had a somewhat self-sacrificing history of denial, in Italy.
I think it’s a good thing.
