Daniel Greenfield December 22, 2020
Two
of the most notorious bigots in the House of Representatives signed a
letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding that he “eradicate
anti-Muslim bigotry from Facebook”.
The three-page letter signed by Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib,
as well as 28 other left-wing House members, spends a great deal of
time demanding the removal of what it calls "anti-Muslim content"
without ever specifically defining it. That's convenient considering
Omar and Tlaib's own history of racism and antisemitism, and support for
the sorts of Islamic bigotry and violence that groups like CAIR, which supports the letter, have become known for.
Considering the letter’s call for, "100 percent proactive detection and removal of anti-Muslim content", the safe assumption would be that they want to ban everything critical of Islam.
That's a disturbing attack on the First Amendment coming from 30 House members.
Democrats have repeatedly pressured Facebook and other social media companies to remove speech they politically disapprove of, whether by President Trump or other conservatives, eroding the thin line between private companies acting on their own initiative and government officials conspiring to violate the First Amendment by banning certain kinds of political speech.
After multiple hearings, legal proposals, and legislative threats, it’s no longer possible to view Facebook’s censorship of political speech as anything other than government censorship. When enough pressure by government officials has been applied to a company to censor certain kinds of speech, the company’s decision to censor speech becomes government censorship...........To Read More.....
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