James Delingpole reports on the bad news from Great Britain:
Facebook has banned the third
largest political page in the UK from their service, Tommy
Robinson. Amazon has just stopped selling his book on the Quran. Twitter
and Paypal already acted along these lines months ago.
This is a terrible day for freedom
of speech. And possibly an even worse one for the future of social cohesion in
Britain.
And Michelle Malkin reports the latest on her battles with
the censors -- because she is conservative:
. . .
The Twitter notice assured me that
the company “has not taken any action on the reported content at this time,”
yet advised me that I should “consult legal counsel about this matter” in
response to complaints from unnamed “authorized entities.”
Don’t worry, lawyer up? Gulp.
I’m used to getting threats
directly from bloodthirsty cartoon jihadists. In 2006, I spearheaded a
“Mohammed cartoons blogburst” in support of the Danish cartoonists at
Jyllands-Posten. After posting all 12 of the drawings to educate the public
about the publication’s brave stand against sharia-enforced self-censorship in
the West, death and rape threats from radical Muslims around the world poured
into my e-mail box. Vengeful thugs based in Turkey and Germany called me a
“whore” and “prostitute,” vowing “We will kill you” unless I deleted the
pictures from my server. My website was targeted by jihadist hackers who
launched a week of denial-of-service attacks.
Thirteen years later, however, who
knew that using an American company’s microblogging service from my secluded
mountain top in Colorado could get me in hot water with foreign Muslim
stone-age goons 8,000 miles away still hung up on the cartoons?
. . .
Over the past few months, several
other prominent critics of Islamic extremism have received similar warning
letters from Twitter’s legal department, including Saudi-Canadian activist Ensaf
Haidar, the wife of imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi; Imam Mohammad
Tawhidi, an Iranian-born Muslim scholar and reform advocate from Australia;
Jamie Glazov, a Russian-born Canadian columnist who just released a new book
called “Jihadist Psychopath”; and Pamela Geller, an anti-jihad blogger and
activist.
. . .
Among others targeted by SPLC
[Southern Poverty Law Center], which collaborates with credit card companies
and banks to silence influential thinkers and activists on the right: David
Horowitz, a venerable scholar and investigative author who successfully beat
back Mastercard’s attempt to drop him over his organization’s opposition to
Islamic radicalism and illegal immigration, and the Center for Immigration
Studies, which is suing the SPLC for labeling its mainstream think tank a “hate
group.”
Read the rest here. Malkin’s list of silenced, de-platformed,
or demonetized conservatives is long, but not long enough. And last month, John Hawkins at Townhall reported on his
personal experience as the proprietor of Right
Wing News; he describes HOW these gigantic companies/monopolies
methodically target and silence conservative voices.
Project Veritas (James O’Keefe’s group) has more chapter-and-verse (h/t Ace of Spades).
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