{"id":21051,"date":"2024-11-04T08:56:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T13:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=21051"},"modified":"2024-11-04T08:59:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T13:59:27","slug":"to-save-democracy-facebook-bans-dictator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/04\/to-save-democracy-facebook-bans-dictator\/","title":{"rendered":"To Save Democracy, Facebook Bans “Dictator”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To \u201cSave Democracy,\u201d Facebook Bans \u201cDictator\u201d<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

Facebook notified me on Sunday morning that eight years ago, I posted a link to my Washington Times article<\/strong><\/a> warning of Dictatorial Democracy<\/strong><\/a> regardless of whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump won the 2016 election. The opening sentence set the tone: \u201cThe 2016 election campaign is mortifying millions of Americans in part because the presidency has become far more dangerous in recent times.\u201d Facebook always gives users the option to \u2018share\u2019 a \u2018Memory\u2019 link. I tapped the button to automatically send a notice on \u2018Dictatorial Democracy\u2019 to all my Facebook friends and followers. No such luck: Facebook notified me that they had banned sharing the piece because it violated Facebook \u201cCommunity Standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maybe if I had simply howled about one of the current presidential candidates being Hitler, that would have satisfied Facebook\u2019s Community Standards?<\/p>\n

Facebook chief Zuckerberg recently admitted that his company massively censored Americans at federal command during Covid and other times. Is suppressing any mention of dictatorship a policy designed to placate federal overseer<\/strong>s? Or are Facebook\u2019s Community Standards guardians really as dumb as Tim Walz? Why was mentioning \u201cdictatorial democracy\u201d acceptable in 2016 but forbidden in 2024?<\/strong><\/p>\n

After Facebook blocked my repost of the Dictatorial Democracy piece, I posted the above photo mocking their decision. Facebook banned the photo, too. Facebook permitted me to request a review of that ban. The response offered a multiple choice menu of protests. I was disappointed there was not a \u201cYou people are boneheads\u201d option. Their \u201creview\u201d process seemed as vapid as their original decree:<\/p>\n

\u00a0And how does the process work? Facebook\u2019s A.I. software checks to confirm the initial decision by Facebook A.I. to ban a post.<\/p>\n

I sit on the edge of my chair, awaiting the verdict from Facebook software.<\/p>\n

Actually, I thrashed Facebook seven years ago in USA Today<\/strong><\/a> for suppressing a post I did about FBI atrocities at Waco, Texas in 1993. That piece noted the Waco fire image was not the first time that Facebook erased an iconic image that the U.S. government would be happy to see vanish. Facebook likely deleted thousands of postings of the 1972 photo of a young South Vietnamese girl<\/a> running naked after a plane dropped napalm on her village. After coming under severe criticism last year, Facebook announced that it would no longer suppress that image<\/a>. But Facebook was already shamelessly craven to foreign governments, including Germany, Turkey, Pakistan, and India. I warned that Facebook\u2019s \u201cnonchalance about engaging in the electronic equivalent of book burning abroad\u201d signaled that the company could do the same here.<\/p>\n

Actually, the Dictatorial Democracy ban might not be the most inane ruling I have seen from Facebook this year. In June, they blocked my posting a link to a Future of Freedom Foundation<\/a> podcast because it contained the cover image of my new book, Last Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty. Facebook claimed my post violated \u201ccommunity standards\u201d because it was spam. How could it be spam if it was clearly labeled and including a video and link from a reputable organization \u2013 well, at least reputable to libertarians, anarchists, and hooligans?<\/p>\n

Facebook notified me that I could appeal their ruling. Fine \u2013 I can explain their blunder in three sentences. No such option. Instead, they offered a series of pages where I could check a box that looked like it was designed for kindergarten. \u201cIt\u2019s not offensive in my region\u201d \u2013 ya, that\u2019s a great option to sway the Facebook Content Moderation Police in Manila. I am pretty sure that the Facebook Appellate Division never sent me their verdict on this content.<\/p>\n

Looking at that strikedown of my book cover, I wondered: Has Facebook gone full Idiocracy<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Or maybe that already happened during Covid? Facebook placated the Biden White House by promising to delete any posts or comments that suggested \u201cCOVID-19 is man-made or manufactured\u201d – even though federal agencies now admit that the virus likely came out of a U.S. government-funded lab in Wuhan. On March 21, 2021, White House Director of Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty notified Facebook that suppressing false information on COVID was not enough. A Facebook official assured the White House that Facebook was also suppressing \u201coften-true content\u201d that might discourage people from getting vaccinated. White House officials even ordered Facebook to delete humorous memes, including a parody of a future television ad: \u201cDid you or a loved one take the COVID vaccine? You may be entitled\u2026\u201d President Biden denounced Facebook for killing people because it did not mindlessly repeat the Party Line on Covid. In June 2023, Zuckerberg admitted that the feds \u201casked for a bunch of things to be censored that, in retrospect, ended up being more debatable or true. That stuff\u2026 really undermines trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few weeks after Zuckerberg\u2019s comment, Federal Judge Terry Doughty ruled that the White House and federal agencies \u201cengaged in coercion of social media companies to such extent that the decisions of the social media companies should be deemed that of the Government.\u201d Doughty slammed the Biden administration for committing potentially \u201cthe most massive attack against free speech in United States history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, condemnations of federal censorship by federal judges apparently did nothing to put starch into Facebook\u2019s spine. Or maybe Facebook would massively censor its users even if it didn\u2019t expect any rewards from Washington?<\/strong><\/p>\n

On August 27, Zuckerberg sent a letter to a congressional committee<\/a> stating that \u201csenior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured\u201d Facebook to censor content. Zuckerberg regretted that his company cowered, more or less: \u201cI regret that we were not more outspoken about it…. We made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn\u2019t make today.\u201d But Zuck promised that Facebook would \u201cnot compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration\u201d in the future.<\/p>\n

So we should trust that Facebook will not again become a willing executioner of Americans\u2019 freedom of speech, except for any references to \u201cdictator\u201d that might discomfit people<\/strong> My 2016 piece declared, \u201cThe United States may be on the verge of the biggest legitimacy crisis since the Civil War.\u201d That legitimacy crisis has worsened over the past two presidential terms.<\/p>\n

But at least Facebook will be here to assure we never run out of cute kitty photos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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