As I’ve mentioned many, MANY times before, I used to be a huge liberal. It was during grad school that the liberal identity-politics driven talking points stopped clicking for me, and I started looking for answers on my own. Two of my MAJOR sources of information were Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire podcast, and Prager University.
..which is probably why the social media giants are trying their best to kill them. They can’t stand to lose any of their precious, carefully brainwashed minions. They can’t let people see LOGIC AND REASON at work… In the days of #WalkAway, that’s just toooo much of a risk!
So what did they do? They wiped Prager U out:
BREAKING: We’re being heavily censored on @Facebook.
Our last 9 posts are reaching 0 of our 3 million followers. At least two videos were deleted last night for “hate speech” including our recent video with @conservmillen.
SHARE to spread awareness about big tech censorship! pic.twitter.com/k83HqmlMRc
— PragerU (@prageru) August 17, 2018
PragerU’s Chief Marketing Officer Craig Strazzeri issued a statement:
“While we’ve experienced blatant discrimination from Google/YouTube, which is why we’ve filed legal action against them, this represents a whole new level of censorship by Facebook,” said Strazzeri. “At this point, Facebook has provided little clarity saying it will get back to us in another two to three business days, which in the world of social media might as well be an eternity.”
“This is very troubling behavior from the world’s largest social network,” he continued. “Not only are they obviously ratcheting up their algorithms to target mainstream, conservative content and labeling it as hate speech, but they are now completely blocking our posts from public view. This is shocking and it should deeply concern every single American.”
UGH.
It SUCKS… but we’re far from shocked. We’ve been telling you for MONTHS how Facebook is censoring OUR content, too.
As Conservatives (Including President Trump!) expressed their outrage, Facebook decided to save some face:
We mistakenly removed these videos and have restored them because they don’t break our standards. This will reverse any reduction in content distribution you’ve experienced. We’re very sorry and are continuing to look into what happened with your Page.
— Facebook (@facebook) August 18, 2018
OH, REEEEEALLY?!
Does anyone really believe this was simply a mistake? https://t.co/DZZ5MUmjg4
— PragerU (@prageru) August 18, 2018
NO.
Funny how it always seems to happen to conservative pages while liberal pages go untouched 🤔
— Mack Williams (@IAmMackWilliams) August 18, 2018
“Funny” is ONE word for it.
Removing two videos, marking them as “hate speech” and then subsequently censoring over 15 of our following posts to reach 0 of our 3 million followers is not a mistake. It’s deliberate censorship of conservative ideas. https://t.co/DZZ5MUmjg4
— PragerU (@prageru) August 18, 2018
Uh huh… doesn’t sound like a “mistake” to me, either.
And if it’s a “mistake” …why are SO MANY other Conservative outlets subject to the EXACT SAME… with no correction?
Unfortunately, not all Conservatives count on the same support network of outraged fans. Sure, Prager had THOUSANDS of people on their side, but what about the THOUSANDS of Conservative voices that get censored by Twitter and Facebook every day?
Will they reverse course on all of THEM?
No, of course not. Conservative voices will REMAIN silenced.