We are used to seeing the suppression of our content here by Facebook using their selective bias. There are many examples of their actions against the freedom of speech and suppression of opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women, including their blocking our articles from being posted and their preventing people from sharing from our Facebook page. Facebook has also banned people for sharing material from Jihad Watch and shadowbanned the page itself. One of their favorite tactics is to suspend both me and Robert Spencer from posting every few days, requiring us to go through the same identity checks time after time in order to get the “privilege” to post restored. This prevents us from running our autoposts of Jihad Watch articles on Facebook.
So it has not been unusual for me to see block messages when doing anything on Facebook. Recently, however, Facebook deployed a new censorship tactic. A German Facebook user requested more information on Robert Spencer. When when I tried to respond, I used Google Translate to understand what he was saying, and was pleased that it was not another one of those “Allah will make you burn in hell” messages that waste my time. I put the URL for the About Robert Spencer page into Google Translate, and messaged the German user back. But then this came up. I was bit surprised, but not shocked to see it:
An error occurred while processing this request. Please try again later.
If you think this doesn’t go against our Community Standards let us know.
“Not again,” I thought. I tried again, using the Jihad Watch homepage in Google Translate. That was blocked as well. I tried posting the link on my own profile. I got the same block every time.
Then I tried different translation combinations, thinking maybe the problem was that German authorities were not allowing Germans to read our site, yet always got the same result. However, this behemoth of a company, with unlimited resources, has tripped over itself this time. While the block is clearly intended to prevent material that violates Leftist orthodoxy from being translated, it has been applied in too careless and broad a fashion. I discovered this when I tried sharing a translated link from Disney.com. Yes, they were blocking that also. It seems as if that when you go to translate a website, Facebook flags it as going against their community standards. Clearly Facebook doesn’t intend to block either Disney.com or Google Translate as a whole. They just caught up these and others in their attempts to prevent people from seeing the truth about jihad.
Well I had a good laugh at this, anyway, and I don’t get many of those having to work with Facebook.
WithPurpleAbandon says
Facebook is really awful shit. I’ve never felt inclined to have a Facebook page. I hate this company because they really are trying to do the utmost to monopolize just about everything you try to do in life: pay for stuff on the Net, sell stuff, buy stuff you don’t need, get wrong opinions stuffed down your throat and the right opinions banned, watch media you’re not interested in and have other media ostracized, and next thing we’ll probably be getting is a new type of Facebook currency to do all that godawful stuff with, and until you can’t live without FB no more.
In the long run, everyone who doesn’t want FB in their lives are going to get a hard time living without it and in the end they’ll have to convert at some stage to FB to live with the same frustrations the FB sheeple are having to endure at this point. Out of sheer desperation.
Talk about global conspiracy. In don’t believe in conspiracy theories as a general rule, but FB really takes the biscuit. This is for real, goddamn’ ! when is this ever going to stop ?
Leon Degney says
I for one have learned to live without Facebook, one of the best moves I have ever made.
WithPurpleAbandon says
Me too. But I sure hope it’s going to last.
Infidel says
I do have WhatsApp, which I need to videocall family abroad, since all of them don’t have iPhones and so can’t FaceTime
Ray Jarman says
I was just about to believe that Facebook was about to become more even handed after reading an article from Wester Journal by Douglas Golden concerning Facebook’s filtering political advertising attack by George Soros of all people. Facebook replied to Soros’ attack by stating, “His (Donald Trump) campaign had just managed to master social media advertising.” All of this was just minutes before reading Marc’s posting about being JihadWatch being shut down and shadow banning. Facebook has miles and miles to go before it can be trusted not to block much needed information to keep America apprised and safe.
Bob Thompson says
For the sake of argument, let’s assume that the arbiters at Facebook are conscientious Americans who are just trying to be fair and even handed to ALL of their users and that they believe that there is nothing wrong with Muslims and that they are an oppressed minority who pose no harm to America and that Conservatives are just awful bigots for attacking Muslims without reason.
How do we change their perception?
I say that we on the Right compile a short list of the most harmful and offensive by products of Islamization and that we all use these reasons in all of our online posts so that a critical mass will develop which will eventually get past the mental filters of the Facebook arbiters so they will be able to realize exactly the harm they are doing to America and most importantly, TO THEMSELVES by protecting Islamists.
Paul says
Please start using Gab and Minds instead of Twitter and Facebook.
marc says
both Gab and Minds have become echo chambers, the purpose of this site is to spread a message, not preach to the converted, so while we still have a voice there, we will use it.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Marc.
mortimer says
An alternative to Facebook and Twitter has become necessary. If President Trump and other leading Republicans start using other platforms, then the whole country will be forced to switch in order to stay current. Then the Dems will start complaining they are being shadow-banned.
James Lincoln says
Absolutely true, mortimer.
Alternatives are needed regarding Facebook and Twitter…
Walter Sieruk says
On the specific date and day of 2/20/ 20 I was keyboarding on my Facebook site ,then then revived a notice, wile keyboarding on Facebook. That i had posted an essay the was against its “community standards ‘ and that I have been banned from using Facebook for thirty- one days .
Such a ban had been placed on me a number of times before as the result of truth expounding about Islam and Islam’s terrorism.
So here is a repeat of my post that Facebook found to be in violation of its “community standards”
“The ‘two state solution” is not really a valid idea and not a genuine solution. It will definitely not stop this awful Israeli –Muslim land conflict.
Thus a “two state solution” is out of the question. This is actually just right and fine .This is because a “two state solution” not really a “solution” but an Islamic ploy of deception , a smokescreen and hoax and a fraud.
For example those recent Hamas rocketed attacks in to Israel from Gaza reveals that even the idea of some people of dividing Jerusalem as well as other parts of the State of Israel between the Jewish people of the Muslim/ Arabs is nothing but folly. To engage the madness of such “talks” is a hoax and a farce .This is because in the so called “negotiations” between the heads of the Jewish nation of Israel and the leaders of the “Palestinians” the Muslim /Arabs the “Palestinian” leaders will speak the truth only when in happens to fit their agenda. The rest of the time the will be speaking half-truths and outright lies. For their goal is to obtain all of the land of the State of Israel ,.Even in it takes much time and it means getting the land piece by piece. So those “peace talks” are a hoax. For the “Palestinian”leaders are employing what is the Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya . Which is the Islamic dogma that lying and deception are good things to do as long as it’s done for the cause of the advancement of Islam. The insidious scheme is part of the stealth jihad .Otherwise known as “Islamic Gradualism.” This sly and something subtle strategy of disingenuous speech, lying deception of achieving the goal of all the land of Israel a war ploy that will be a disaster if the heads of the State of Israel are foolish enough to agree to divide the land of Israel with Muslim /Arabs ,the “Palestinians.” For if such a “peace dialogue” results in a divided land, the outcome will literally be murder. For “Palestinian” leader will allow the jihadists use that land as a base to launch murderous rocked attacks in to Israel. As for example, Hamas of Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Such false hopes for peace which are based on the foundation of lies are nothing new when it comes to Israel . For example, the Bible in Psalm 55:20, 21. Reads “Such men do violence to those at peace with them and break their promised word; their speech is smoother the butter but their thoughts are of war.” ” [N.E.B.] ”
To reiterate ,this above is the posting that Facebook just put me on a thirty -one day ban for
James Lincoln says
Walter Sieruk,
You spoke the truth on your Facebook posting.
Obviously, Facebook cannot handle the truth…
gravenimage says
+1
Fear Not says
What we really need the most for combating the violance of this religion of terrorisms ?
I thought the most thing that we need is to have a website that records all of killings, violances, terrorism, intolerances etc from muslims to non muslims along with number of victims in a table forms, easy to read. event can be linked as addons to anywebsites.
Why we need it?
Because its would showed the fruits of islam no matters the denials. Without this master records from around the world, every crimes would be noted as anomaly, every actions to counter it would be noted as discriminations. Look at india with their newest refugee policy.
Any books, written opinions, debates are not easy used because of language barriers, especially at muslims country, but a data is easier.
Who will use it?
everyone ! because every debates, discussions about violances of islam at the net, socialmedia, communities etc need a data, a source , links that cant be counters with any excuses.
this kind of data will encourages any communities, parents, social media, including muslims themself to fight terrorism in the name of Allah.
I hope Mr Spencer read this and can help providing us this master records that updated everytime. So we can use it as refference to combating extremism. I believe Mr. Spencer are the one who can make it because his networks, his commitment about jihads.
marc says
You seem to be describing https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ we have their counter in the toolbar on the right. This page also has a search feature, and google still works pretty well if you add jihadwatch.org into the search argument.
gravenimage says
The Religion of Peace is an important site.
gravenimage says
Facebook blocks Google Translate and Disney.com in its efforts to block Jihad Watch
………………
Just despicable.
Infidel says
Marc, are they blocking all your translations, or just German ones? How about Spanish? French? Portugese? Italian? And so on
marc says
all, from what I can tell they are blocking all facebook users from sharing translated pages from any website, try messaging this to a friend
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=de&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jihadwatch.org%2Fabout-robert
try different combinations.
They have broken their system.
Infidel says
How about other translation engines, like Bing, deepL, Free Translation Online and so on?
I try and avoid Google as much as possible these days. DuckDuckGo for search, any mail hosting service for email, Bing or Apple maps, and so on. The only Google service I can’t avoid is YouTube, since that’s what I use for TV.
Facebook I don’t even touch – I’m so sick of them constantly suggesting to me who to befriend, and having nothing in their settings to disable that!
Lydia Church says
JUST AN IDEA:
Try sending it in a coded form.
Explain the code. The person will read it and know how to decode it, but the screening system won’t catch it, only if they hire someone to read all the text. But I think it’s automated. So if the website is something like: http://www.robertspencereveryhouronthehour.com and that url is blocked, just enter it as….
“double you double you double you dot (enter name seen below) every hour on the hour dot cee oh em” and the first name is robert and the last is spencer, you must read it phonetically and enter it without spaces. Let me know if you need more clues.
It’s not perfect, but it might get the message across. I know the point is what is happening with censorship, but I just wanted to pass this idea along to help in case it does.
Thanks!
: D
Lydia Church says
P.S.
If it’s not on top of the hour you can call it….
three fifty nine pee-em by robert spencer
(it’s a running joke.)
; D
Infidel says
No, just use one of the other translation engines out there. I’ve named some in my post above
gravenimage says
Lydia–with all respect–anything that is written in code will be missed by a lot of people. They either won’t get it, or will consider it too much work to decode.
Joe says
Marc, Jihad Watch has censored me for several months. Is there any chance that I will be allowed to post again? It all started when I made a contribution to Jihad Watch.
marc says
I don’t see your email or IP on the banned list.
But as a reminder, calls for violence and vigilantism, vulgarism and going off topic will get you banned. Making contributions is not a banning offence 🙂
Infidel says
Then how do we still have the patron St of the evils of ‘Matthews Gospel’ Leander? Not that I want him banned, but if going off-topic is a bannable offense, he sure would have earned it!
marc says
First I’ve heard of, best you remind them next time you see them offend. But when I do ban those that continue to go off topic or start trolling, i normally advise they get their own blog.
It’s often a tough call, we all innocently do it, but I get complaints and see a pattern…
We have some great contributors here, they deserve it.
gravenimage says
Marc, I’ll send you some of his off-topic spam.
marc says
Thanks GI, email me, ideally when we have a live discussion going.
UNCLE VLADDI says
While, “as a private company, they can block whomever they want to!” – if and when they defame you in public while providing you with their explanatory “reasons” for doing so, you can sue the crap out of them.
Just sayin’!
😉
Infidel says
I think that Sec 35 (if I recall right) does state that they’re immune from being sued b’cos they’re a portal, not a publisher. But that is something the senate is looking at reversing, given their freely banning people: if they’re gonna regulate content, there’s no reason they should be immune from lawsuits
Infidel says
Marc, the text you were trying to tranlate comes out as ‘Can you tell me a little more about yourself?’
marc says
yes, and I was trying to respond with a link to the translated “about Robert Spencer” page, which is where I was blocked by the facebook fascist control. Translating the OP message was not an issue, and I doubt he was interested in me.