*... and Twitter's doing much the same.* *Thus cyber-space today is just as "free" as our elections.*
*MCM* ‘Land of censorship & home of the fake’: Alternative voices on Facebook and Twitter’s crackdown Published time: 12 Oct, 2018 16:48 Edited time: 12 Oct, 2018 17:23 Get short URL <https://on.rt.com/9gd9> [image: ‘Land of censorship & home of the fake’: Alternative voices on Facebook and Twitter’s crackdown] Cardboard cutouts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seen at a protest in Washington DC © Reuters / Aaron P. Bernstein - 129 - - - - - *https://www.rt.com/usa/441117-facebook-twitter-ban-reacts/ <https://www.rt.com/usa/441117-facebook-twitter-ban-reacts/>* Alternative voices online are incensed after Facebook and Twitter closed down hundreds of political media pages ahead of November's crucial midterm elections. Facebook says they broke its spam rules, they say it’s censorship. Some 800 pages <https://www.rt.com/usa/441040-facebook-deplatforms-political-pages/> spanning the political spectrum, from left-leaning organizations like The Anti Media, to flag-waving opinion sites like Right Wing News and Nation in Distress, were shut down. Other pages banned include those belonging to police brutality watchdog groups Filming Cops and Policing the Police. Even RT America’s Rachel Blevins found her own page banned for posts that were allegedly *“misleading users.”* *snip>* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to Mark Crispin Miller's "News From Underground" newsgroup. If you'd like to donate to News From Underground, please visit http://markcrispinmiller.com/donate - we appreciate your ongoing support. Ways to unsubscribe, 1) send a blank email to [email protected]. PLEASE NOTE: you must unsubscribe using the SAME email with which you subscribed; 2) go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com
