Facebook’s Community Standards Released – Conservatives Should Worry

Here Is Why Conservatives Should Worry About Facebook’s Newly Published Guidelines.

Newly published details were released by Facebook this morning, describing what content is allowed and what content is prohibited on the platform. This information should be troubling for conservatives and every American who believes in free speech.

Facebook’s Community Standards show that the social media platform’s standards for hate speech or hate groups are very vague and that a critique of someone based on what Facebook calls “protected characteristics” (such as immigration status) could lead to you being censored online.

Media Research Center (MRC) Senior Fellow LTC Allen B. West (USA, Ret) issued this statement following today’s developments:

“Facebook has made very little clear today. The takedown policies outlined are vague and could easily be abused to censor those that Facebook simply disagrees with. By their definition, my belief in traditional marriage could be spun as ‘hate speech.’ Their unnamed ‘fact-checkers’ could suppress conservative media, labeling it as ‘false news.’ When the liberal, progressive left felt they did not have a fair playing field on talk radio, they sought to impose a ‘fairness doctrine.’ The left pretends to love the word fairness until it is applied to them.

As extensive as these community standards are, Facebook has neglected to address what it is doing to ensure conservative and liberal political and cultural expression have equal footing on its website. If Facebook is truly a ‘platform for all ideas,’ as CEO Mark Zuckerberg says, it must take steps to guarantee these rules are not used to further silence and suppress conservative voices.”
Censored speech is simply un-American… and politically motivated censoring is even more so.

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