The battle to chase liberals out of Facebook shifts to Texas

We now have proof that conservative activists are working in teams to get liberals thrown out of Facebook – and Facebook is helping them.

As we’ve read in the news, Fox News assembled teams of employees to set up fake accounts and prowl the internet, pretending to be random private citizens, attacking anyone who criticizes Fox News or their agenda.

We also know that other conservative organizations are doing the same. A number of right-wing attack groups are operating in Facebook, exploiting Facebook’s automated “discipline” system which reacts automatically if any account receives multiple complaints against it. Using this mechanism, the conservative attack team can file multiple complaints and get a liberal banned from using Facebook features, and there is no appeal process.

Also, some conservative websites are in fact getting special protection from Facebook, which can’t be done by a machine: a living person, a moderator, must have decided to afford them this protection. Two such sites are Conservative Daily and OMG America, both of which get special protection from Facebook. Members of these groups have launched their lynch mobs into cyberspace, silencing liberal voices by getting them thrown out of Facebook.

Another group getting protection is a hard-core anti-abortion site, Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice Debate Forum. They actually use their site name to entice pro-choice members into posting there, so they can have them banned.

Now a new entry has arrived: Texans For Abbott, the site supporting Greg Abbott, the rightwing lawyer who is running for Texas Governor against Wendy Davis. Here’s the site: https://www.facebook.com/TexansForAbbott . The members of the site are working very, very quickly not only to attack Davis but to get anyone who supports her thrown out of Facebook.

Again, these sites cannot be getting special protection just from the automated Facebook monitors. The actual human moderators must be assisting them in this censorship effort. So the question is…why?

 I know of one liberal member who has set up five different accounts – because four other accounts have already been burned out by the lynch-mob attacks, even though there was no violation of Facebook’s laughably vague rules. And then the Facebook people complain that a hundred million of their “members” are fakes and dupes.

Facebook could have been a superb venue that Americans could use to debate all of today’s contentious issues. Instead, no debate is possible, because as soon as conservatives see an opponent or hear a contrasting view, they go berserk and demand that Facebook destroy them. And Facebook complies. So conservatives have yet another place where they can hide from reality and censor opponents. And if Facebook continues to gain a reputation as a place where anyone daring to challenge the Tea Party can be banned, then it will continue to lose market share to new social networking sites.