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Facebook 'permanently' locks account of conservative children's book publisher

Heroes of Liberty publishes books about Amy Coney Barrett, Ronald Reagan and Thomas Sowell

YOU CAN SEE THEM HERE, AT THE COMPANY’S WEBSITE

Facebook has "permanently disabled" the ads account of a conservative children's book publisher, claiming that Heroes of Liberty – which has published books about Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, former President Ronald Reagan and author Thomas Sowell – violated the company's rules against "Low Quality or Disruptive Content." Facebook originally locked the ads account on Dec. 23, and after Heroes of Liberty appealed the ruling, the company permanently disabled the account. 

"The question is: is a children's biography of Ronald Reagan no longer permissible on Facebook? We don’t know. But apparently promoting one may well kill a business," Heroes of Liberty editor and board member Bethany Mandel told FOX Business on Sunday.

"We began investing in Facebook four months before we launched our first book," she added. "We invested most of our marketing budget on the platform, and now our budget (the money we’ve already spent), as well as our assets and data are gone. Marketing-wise we are back in square one, financially it's even more challenging."

"We are not in politics, we are in the business of creating beautiful stories about great people that will entertain children and give them life lessons," she said. "To cancel children's books because they celebrate American values that 90% of Americans believe in isn’t even anti-conservative bias, it's anti-American. Pure madness."

"This ad account, its ads and some of its advertising assets are disabled because it didn't comply with our policy on Low Quality or Disruptive Content," Facebook said in a message disabling the account on Dec. 23. 

After Heroes of Liberty appealed, Facebook sent another message. "After a final review of this ad account, we confirmed it didn't comply with our Advertising Policies or other standards," the message reads. "You can no longer advertise with this ad account and its ads and assets will remain disabled. This is our final decision."

…. [Mandel] "Our problem is that it seems that Facebook went with the mob judgment call and not with common sense.”

While the loss of the Facebook ads platform will cost Heroes of Liberty, Mandel laid out a path forward. She said that the publisher has "received a warm welcome, sold tens of thousands of books and learned that many Americans are looking for a wholesome alternative to the current contemporary woke children's literature."

"We learned our lesson, and won't risk building our business relying on the whims of Big Tech again," she added. "We are very happy with our initial decision to create a subscription model that will allow us to create a more meaningful one-on-one connection with families that can't be disrupted by a censor."

I don’t do Facebook, so whoever they ban has no direct effect on me, but it’s obviously an institution run by a cabal of idiot leftists — I repeat myself — who are determined to make it a platform exclusively for slime people like themselves. If Congress wants to hit them with anti-trust actions and censorship laws that will further curtail free speech, I don’t care: it’s already an evil cesspit, and a stooge of the government, so that might as well be made clear(er).

“disruptive”