As Station Gossip reports, "her appeal against the decision was rejected and she was able to use her account with more than 20,000 followers only after waiting three days, then sending a scan of her driver’s license, which Facebook requested to confirm her identity."
But the good news is that none of of the social media companies have yet seen fit to ban this picture of the worst of the Soviet Commie Killers: Josef Stalin, Mikhail Kalinin (wearing glasses), Kliment Voroshilov and Lazar Kaganovich (left to right) responsible for, among other atrocities of the 1940 execution of 22,000 Polish military officers, policemen, and academics (the Katyn massacre).
In other words the censorship isn't ideologically driven with some hidden agenda as its purpose, but simply scattershot and driven by blind stupidity?
ReplyDeleteI always wonder, when I read about them suspending someone's account and requesting the victim to send in ID, whether what's really going on is the sheer enjoyment of anyone in any position of arbitrary authority to mess with those they can mess with. From cops to park rangers, this secret desire emerges when it is enabled.
What you suggest may be correct. But why engage in censorship at all if it is essentially random and non-ideological? Could it be that the mere fact that there is censorship, however stupid, causes people to adhere to the code of political correctness for fear of being censored, while freeing the SM platform to deny that it is imposing the restraint of political correctness?
DeleteIn other words, while censorship is designed to confine comment to what is politically correct, the method deployed allows denial of the fact that censorship is ideological in purpose.
That could well be.
ReplyDeleteMaybe something like that is happening in the streets now, too. The riots and destruction appeared somewhat spontaneously from one point of view, but from another, who couldn't have predicted something exactly like this? It turned out to be sooner rather than later, but I doubt that matters much. It looks to me as if the sclerotic beasts have lost control, perhaps they have. They also may have loosened control hoping to lose it so they can tighten it later. There is no articulate voice or enunciation of what the rioter/protester wants or desires, which is strange enough, and behind that--look! A vague political correctness regarding race relations and the wearing of masks showing Covid-19 is taken seriously! No social distancing, but even so, they are all doing their best to cooperate with the medical authorities to contain the disease.
Could it be that the rise of Antifa, BLM, etc. has been induced with the intention of creating a backlash? These people are certainly unpleasant and stupid enough to annoy most sane people. But if a backlash is intended, to what purpose would it be harnessed? Re-electing Trump? Making a pariah of Justin, take-a-knee Trudeau?
DeleteAny positive content of the demonstrations, feeble as it was, has been drowned out by the burning and pillaging. I was listening to a radio talk show host, George Noori of the popular late night program Coast-to-Coast, saying the riots have to be ended and if that means sending in the troops, so be it. So indeed here we have it: the call for a return to law and order may usher in a more complete martial law. It will have popular support. I'm not convinced we're going to have elections in November.
DeleteI was still interested in the "pandemic" and felt I had a lot to learn, yet I have completely lost this now. I just don't care any more. We've now had months of lock down and the effects/consequences are sealed into being. I'm just sitting here waiting for the inevitable to unfold, as it is now in unravel. Unbelievable, yet here it is before our very eyes.
ReplyDeleteYes, the events unfolding seem strange indeed. Here in Victoria, the capital of the Province of British Columbia, located on Vancouver Island with a population of eight hundred thousand people, we have had no new cases of Covid19 for many days now; we have no known extant cases of Covid19; the only Covid19 hospital patient was discharged from hospital days ago; and the reported mortality from Covid19 of six or seven per million is among the lowest, if not the absolute lowest in the world. Yet ever increasing numbers of people wear masks, and from my office window I see a line of about 25 people waiting their turn to enter the Home Depot store.
DeleteEvidently, we're so well trained in virus avoidance we are incapable of returning to normal.