I'm in Facebook Arkham Asylum

 

     There's something truly sinister going on with social media and it's not just one or the other. It's both Twitter and Facebook. And the trend is unmistakable. People critical of Trump and the right wing are getting suspended left and right (actually, just left) or, as in the case of Ken Klipperstein, getting their accounts axed by Elmo just for reporting the truth.

     Four days ago, I got suspended from posting on Facebook for putting up the first lead image. It was allegedly for just 24 hours but, true to Fuckbook form, they've been capriciously adding another day on every day. Every time I log on, I'm told my "posting privileges" won't be reinstated until 2:46 tomorrow morning. It's like Groundhog Day, minus the laughs.

     Of course, it's all done with brainless algorithms but the way they're programmed is unmistakable - If you're against Trump, expect to get swatted down. Elmo Musk has made his bias unmistakable so there's no doubt in anyone's mind why he bought Twitter two years ago.

     But Zuckerberg has hardly been more subtle and he hides his own passive version of fascism with hardly more nuance. Think this is another liberal conspiracy theory? Try this on for size:

     

     Let me introduce you to Dustin Carmack. Carmack, as the picture tells us, is a contributor to the universally-reviled Project 2025, the radical right wing's version of Hitler's Enabling Act. Everything in that picture is true. "Public Policy Director", his official job title, sounds like something that would've been dreamed up by Goebbels. But being the author of a chapter in Project 2025 is just the tip of the iceberg.

    Carmack also recently worked for Ron DeSantis' slow motion Hindenburg of a presidential campaign. He was hired by Meta last August by Zuckerberg for obvious reasons, to suppress left wing content on the big blue meanie but it actually goes a lot deeper than that.

     This revelation of Carmack's hiring was broken by Alejandra Caraballa on Twitter and whose Twitter account was, surprise surprise, taken down by Elmo.

     This neatly dovetails into Facebook's and Zuckerberg's pious decision to avoid political content during this election cycle, which I guess included lifting Trump's ban from the site as well as allowing right wing content to spread throughout Facebook like a sewer gas leak.

      While progressive content and pro LGBTQ posts to get taken down under the vague and obligatory "goes against community standards", right wingers and neo Nazis are allowed to call gay people "pedophiles" and "groomers".

      All this is supposed to calm the jitters of Fuckbook's investors who don't want a repeat of the same clusterfuck that hit the domain after the 2016 election. And if you have any illusions that the restrictions will be lifted after this election, guess again.

     Former GOP Congressman Bob Barr once famously said, "If you give government power, it will use it "

     Does anyone out there think the same doesn't apply to right wing, self-dealing corporations like Facebook?