U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- Censorship of pro-gun content in big tech is nothing new. Once again, the Internet giants of Silicon Valley have shown their disdain for everything that they view as right-wing.
Internet personality, Hank Strange, is the latest victim of this purge. Facebook has removed his public page. Saturday, a friend of Strange’s told him that his Facebook page was missing from the social media platform. The next day Strange logged onto his Facebook account to find his page was unpublished for “violating community guidelines.”
According to Strange, there was nothing posted on the page that violated Facebook policy for pages. Facebook forbids private sellers of firearms on their platform. Being a long-time follower of Strange, I can’t recall a single time that Strange or anyone else selling guns on his Facebook page. Like many others, Strange does post deals that he finds around the internet, but the terms of service do not forbid the sharing of deals.
Strange surmises that Facebook might have deemed the sharing of deals a violation of their terms of service. He immediately appealed the decision, but as of today, the page is still down. Facebook, to this point, has not responded to his appeal that he filed on Sunday morning. There is no timeline for the company to respond with a final decision.
“Zuckerberg talked about moving Facebook back towards freedom,” Stange told AmmoLand by phone. “This doesn’t look like freedom to me.”
Zuckerberg recently said the company would err on the side of freedom when it comes to content. It doesn’t appear that this policy applies to guns. Although Strange surmises, it could be the algorithm that is false flagging his content.
Facebook has to moderate thousands and pages and millions of posts across the website. Humans do not do most of the moderation on the platform. Facebook uses machine learning to review comments and pages, and it is not uncommon for the algorithm to false flag content.
Strange also think situations where pro-second amendment content gets censored highlights the need for our own pro-gun social media platforms. In the video world, there is Full30 and GunStreamer. Some social media sites are gun-friendly, but most run on a shoestring budget and are unknown.
“I am an advocate of me having an ecosystem of our own,” Strange said. “I would like to see the firearms industry think about that. They need to either to initiate a pro-second amendment, and a pro-freedom platform or all get behind and support an already existing platform.
Without massive support of the gun industry, it is hard for any pro-gun social media platform to get any traction. Most successful gun specific social media sites are message boards that existed before the invention of Facebook.
Second amendment advocates worry about a future widespread and sudden purge of pro-gun content. Strange and others do not think we need to abandon current sites, but we need to have a back-up plan.
The second amendment community is at a crossroads. We need to give up a little convenience and start using pro-2a sites to avoid being deplatformed.
Hank Strange is a proud, patriotic, gun owning American who happens to be black, and so this is clearly racism. Turn the left’s own favorite tool for when they have nothing else, the magical term that until very recently was able to quickly render many “white” people instantly stupid and pliable – was to cry “racism!” Again, following the left’s lead, Facebook is not to be presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, because that is not how the left perverts our legal system and culture. No, Facebook, just like Trump or judge Kavanaugh, gun owners, or… Read more »
Facebook is committed to purging ALL pro-2A and pro-gun accounts, and anything The Zucc says to the contary is a lie designed to mollify the gullible. They – and other social media giants like Twitter – will deplatform conservative influencers even more aggressively in the lead-up to the 2020 election, in the false belief that if they suppress our presence on the big-brand social media, they can swing the election. It is this same hubris and self-unawareness that caused all Leftists to be surprised and shocked when Trump pullled off an Electoral College landslide and trounced the Queen of Rot… Read more »
Sucktheturd is an asshole, just another Dem./lib “tool”… Time to make a conservative/right network, the HUGE $$$ loss will take the pedestal standing leftist assholes down.
Facebook supports two things, Dope and Homosexuality.
What is needed is not a social media site comparable to Fakebook where the gun guys gravitate. Nope. An all guns al the time site would limit the people who would go there. What we NEED is a site that is truly neutral on EVERY count. I know of churches, organisations, etc, that have pages for their members on Fb, and we cringe to be using that rotten tool to further OUR communication. We’d ALL like to find somewhere neutral. Fb also purge antiabortion anti-forced vaccination, anti natural health, aritists and creative groups that don’t have trashy stuff, a film… Read more »
Facebook is not by any stretch of the imagination “free speech” and the 1st Amendment does not apply to them. As a private entity it can do whatever they please and they still answer to no one. The pure genus of how so many are literally trapped and dependent on this form of media is mind boggling. But as it’s been said before “Necessity IS the mother of invention”. There was a day before facebook and there can be another. Censorship is the tool of democrats, communists and those on the right. They know quite well how powerful it is… Read more »
Yup, Hitler had Goebbels the propagandist. The socialist, communist, demoncrapic, left leaning rinos have face book, most of the main stream news, amazon, ebay and more. What is going on here in America these days is something to be expected in places like China, Russia, Iran, Irak, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Serbia, Lebanon etc. Try buying AR parts on ebay or amazon. They were plentiful just a year ago.
Arm up, carry on.
Simple remedy,Everyone stop using facebook. Thus there goes his revenue, thus there goes his power.I don’t have dumbbook, never have had it, never will have it.
The owner of Face Book, one of the richest people on the planet and now he is a tyrant. Seems I read something like this in the declaration of independence. A king thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant. censoring people because they are not in lock step with the socialist, communist, demoncrapic, left leaning rino party is a trait of the communist party. He’s not alone, try to find AR 15 equipment and accessories on ebay and/or amazon. This is all a part of the socialist, communist, tyrannical demoncrapic parties’ plan to disarm America so they… Read more »
Getting John Q Public to stop using Facebook just because someone was “wronged” would be akin to having them put down their cellphones, which would be akin to sticking the pointy end of a knife into their overinflated egos, which of course would be a crime of the first magnitude against their vanity—-and that ain’t going to happen!