Things seem to be moving on the “social media stuffs non-leftist media down the memory hole” front. Yesterday virtually every social media platform spontaneously de-platformed whadadoo Alex Jones (I’m *sure* that it was purely co-incidental and not at all conspiratorial). Twitter banned a conservative commentator, Candace Owens, for 12 hours for re-tweeting the racist comments of a shiny new New York Times staffer… comments which are still up.
And Facebook banned an ad for a Republican Congressional candidate because… reasons. It took five days and a public outcry for Facebook to decide that they’d made a mistake, and un-blocked the ad.
Once again… these are private companies, and they’ve the legal right to drive away whatever customers they want… just like a baker has the right to turn down whatever business he wants for whatever reason he wants. But there should be no mistaking that these companies are controlled by people who want to silence at least half the country.
This is the ad that Facebook found to be beyond the pale. See if you think it’s so bad as to be somehow outside the terms of service… or if it simply gives a message that someone at Facebook found to be politically incorrect. Perhaps someone was offended that a “person of color” daughter of immigrants went off the reservation.