The Supreme Court erred, and this is the result

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It’s actually an acceleration, not the beginning of the state’s and its social media branch’s attack on free speech. Already, Google, Facebook, et al, have demonetized conservative websites by refusing to run ads on any article discussing global warming, transgenderism, school unions, COVID responses, from lockdowns t masks to vaccines — the list is endless. Facebook’s just upping the ante, and, emboldened by the Supremes, the rest of the evil empire is sure to follow suit.

Facebook (Meta) Censors Thousands of Mainers After SCOTUS Green Lights Feds to Coerce Social Media

Facebook, the flagship social media site of Meta Platforms, Inc., deleted thousands of social media posts from users in Maine on Friday night.

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Facebook’s broad censorship campaign removed more than 3,000 posts made by social media users, including users living outside of Maine, who had linked to Maine Wire articles, including elected officials posting their own op-eds.

The mass takedown began just 24 hours after President Joe Biden gave a debate performance that was widely regarded as disastrous for his re-election campaign.

The Maine Wire’s Facebook page had primarily been sharing videos of the Commander-in-Chief debating former Republican President Donald Trump in the hours before the censorship campaign began.

However, the nature of the posts that were removed were broad and varied, and not all of them political or authored by Maine Wire reporters.

According to a review of hundreds of complaints sent to the Maine Wire about the censorship campaign, the posts Facebook targeted have no theme or commonality other than having links to TheMaineWire.com.

Facebook removed a May 2023 story about the Stand by to Fly practical shooting event in Hampden, which raised $75,000 for the Travis Mills Foundation.

Rep. Regan Paul (R-Winterport) shared screenshots showing that her more recent op-ed about offshore wind in Maine — a project that will directly impact her constituents — was removed from her personal page. In this instance, an elected officials own speech concerning a major political topic was removed from her personal page.

The censored stories also include dozens of investigative reports on illegal Chinese marijuana sites throughout Maine.

For example, Facebook deleted all links to an investigative report that showed Gov. Janet Mills’ brother, Paul Mills, helped Chinese drug traffickers transfer ownership of an illicit marijuana cultivation site in Corinna to a Chinese national living in Guangdong Province, China.

Facebook even took down a guest column about the New England Patriots.

Understand, The Maine Wire is not some fire-breathing, anarchist/commieAlex Jones January 6th denier, it’s a legitimate, solid news reporting publication: it broke the story of the Chinese pot farms that have invaded Maine, for instance, a story with national implications because the same pattern is occurring in other rural states. What it is, and the reason Facebook is going after it, is that it’s conservative – beginning and end.

Facebook has a long history of partnering with left-wing governments to censor politically motivated speech. In Germany, criticisms of the country’s immigration policies are regularly removed from the site. In Pakistan, the company will limit speech offensive to Muslims.

Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson issued the following comment in response to Facebook’s targeted censorship campaign:

“Mark Zuckerberg is a lizard person.”

I’d say that sums it up.