2016 Politics

Facebook Beefs Up Censorship of Non-Liberals, Shuts Down ‘Being Libertarian’

July 16, 2016July 16, 2016 Justin Moldow 29 Comments

Last week, we reported to you that Liberty Memes was on the brink of being shut down, after Facebook briefly unpublished their page because of a meme critical of Hillary Clinton. Today, Facebook deleted the page Being Libertarian after they posted the following image.

Being Libertarian’s Head of Media Relations, Mike Mazzarone, said the following on his personal Facebook, lamenting about the deletion.

Being Libertarian has reached out to Facebook in hopes of receiving a media inquiry about the deletion of their page. After Facebook was recently caught tailoring their news towards liberal sources, it was believed that their relationship with non-liberals would improve. But this week’s turn of events indicate that things aren’t getting any better. We know that conservatives are being censored by Facebook, but the censorship of libertarians is even worse.

Please share this story to help our friends at Being Libertarian get their page back. They’ve worked arduously to build a loyal following of more than 90,000 fans who enjoy their daily content, and would appreciate if you could give them a helping hand.

lyricosm

Being Libertarian is a troll page. It offers little if anything worthwhile to the cause of libertarian ideology other than exploitation of the right to be an asshole. Nevertheless, between trolling and censorship, the latter form of assholery is the stinkiest.
- hyraxx
  
  I don’t follow the page religiously to confirm that they troll. Very few memes offer little to anything worthwhile. I’m just tired of censorship. My post was removed from some leftist disqus discussion because I compared BLM blocking a highway to Bridgegate. Very legitimate and serious comparison
  - Ixoziel
    
    You only compared it to Bridgegate? I just call them primitives. I wouldn’t bother trying to discuss anything with progressives. They’re far too zealous to respond reasonably. I find their behavior funny when you consider that they’re the main party of atheists.
    
    “Racist” is the new “heretic”.
- Matthew Denniston
  
  Comedy is a worthwhile enterprise both in it’s own right and for spreading ideas.
  
  If you need more examples let me know but start at “Daily Show” and go from there.
- Ixoziel
  
  I wouldn’t really compare trolling and censorship … the former is exercising your right to free speech, the latter is suppressing the rights of others.
hyraxx

What Facebook should do is instead of removing the photo is to change the audience from ‘public’ to people who actually consent to see what you post. Now they are removing the entire page? Why are they censoring posts I consent to viewing?
- Matthew Denniston
  
  In the EULA you agreed that Zuckerberg is the curator of your brain.
Liberty Smurf

Libertarians are ruining facebook for everyone. 🙂 j/k
holygoat

Can you guys please start using the term “leftist” or “progressive” where you currently use “liberal”? Part of our mission ought to be to reclaim the English language from the left. There is nothing “liberal” about the leftist, Progressive Democrat Party, or the dozens of Marxist agitation groups currently operating in America.
- Anon
  
  neither is there anything “progressive” about them. Don’t let them dictate the direction of “progress”.
  - Maine Rifleman
    
    Exactly! I had a marxist say we need to try something “new and different”, referring to socialism. oy! I kid you not.
    - Fred Autonom
      
      Say, okay, let’s try something new and different and hand em something about Agorism. http://agorism.info
      - Ixoziel
        
        It seems like that would devolve into feudalism. You would have a bunch of companies “providing security” (aka warlords), each fighting over a sphere of influence.
  - Jaime Osbourn
    
    They call themselves progressives, so let’s use their word.
    - Dookiestain_LaFlair
      
      They are regressives, not progressives.
- Maine Rifleman
  
  I agree and use the term “regressive” to describe this wave of leftist.
holygoat

Is the “Being Libertarian” page I’m currently looking at on FB a different page, or have you been reinstated?
ZyklonSlick

And Libertarians are mad why? A corporation exercised its property rights :^). Libertarians and Ancaps should be rejoicing and following the N.A.P. Facebook is making money so why should it bother you whether the wider culture suffers so long as it is not by violence XDDDDDD
- LoneWiseMan
  
  They can still be mad at the company and vocalize that.
  
  Are you so oblivious to think that their freedom of speech should be limited because it’s a private company?
  - MG
    
    Libertarianism means that Facebook has the right to decide what they want to allow on their site. It also means that people can raise a stink, threaten a boycott, whatever, if they don’t like Facebook’s decisions.
    
    Libertarianism doesn’t mean you have to approve of or shut up about other people’s actions. It just means that, in general, those actions should not be controlled by force of law.
    - ZyklonSlick
      
      Of course you have every right to be buttmad and call for a boycott just as all establishments have the right to throw you on the sidewalk for shouting “TITS!!!”. But the low likelihood of a boycott working against Facebook shows just how impotent libertarians are. Libertarians like Communists refuse to believe that their ideology is flawed and can be exploited. Not everyone will agree with it because we do not have a hivemind.
    - Bill Stypick
      
      Consider this a form of consumer review from upset patrons…. This is how the free market shuts down improperly run business’s…. We’re not demanding that the gubment come in and take control of FB and force people to listen to us….
- Friedriche Dali
  
  Actually you’re wrong. Facebook has conditions, community standards, if you respect these standards they have no right to censor you since you respect the established contract between you and them, which they are currently breaking.
- Chris
  
  I think a big part of it is the blatant lying and hypocrisy on the part of facebook, in how they treat the regressive left, muslims and everyone else. If you went to another business and they blatantly displayed bias for a particular group of customers and treated everyone else so poorly, you would most likely have legal basis to sue for discrimination.
Bruce

Facebook, being a private organization, is free to ban or permit anybody they want. Why would you want to be a part of an organization that clearly doesn’t want you?
- John Cross
  
  Then it shouldn’t be a website that’s supposed to include everyone from all walks of life, they should change their name to BolshevikBook if they want to ban everything remotely conservative or right wing.
- Tannim
  
  California’s Public Accommodations Law says otherwise.
  - Bruce
    
    I disagree. Case law is clear – online boards of all types are not public accommodations.
Aaron H

Socialist. Its leftist regressive Socialism. Nothing Liberal about any of it. Thomas Jefferson was a Liberal. Hillary is a psycopathic regressive Socialist, just like Barry.

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