Apparently from what we’ve gathered over here at WeedPress, Alex Jones, conspiracy theorist and artist of controversy/character extraordinaire, has been removed from YouTube and other social media apps after a private meeting with CEO’s from said apps, and CNN.
The thrust of the argument is Jones said something that made people uncomfortable. He deigned to claim that the government would ever dare have an incentive to murder or use your children as pawns as a means to some ends if it would benefit them and they could potentially get away with it or at least not have to be held accountable. Since that has never happened in all of history before, Jones now shouldn’t have access to Facebook.
Seems fair and just.
Here’s one of the anchors for Infowars — which has over 5 million viewers and is one of the most watched podcasts of all time — speaking on cannabis prohibition. People in the Midwest don’t seem to like discussing their 86% support for marijuana unless it’s in private and hidden far, far away from what their neighbors might hear or think. That’s that shit black people smoke, in’t it ma? They say it can end opiate addiction? That sounds like one of, uh, one of those uh, “those people,” yuh know?
While previously stoners were the last citizen class polite society was allowed to brutalize and discriminate against while sexually assaulting potential marijuana users during roadside stops, that class now seems to be expanding to news outlets that don’t pass CNN’s approval test, like Alex Jones Infowars. One of Iowa’s largest Facebook pages was banned after Connie Norgart and other white, privileged, oppressive Iowa activists left the page en masse claiming that any discussion surrounding racism and drugs was unacceptable, and that since they had the sole and final say on how medical marijuana was going to be realized, all the niggers could kindly shut the fuck up.
It became the top news story of the night.
Medical Marijuana Facebook Page Banned | We Are Iowa
This process, known as “shadow banning,” was covered by Marijuana Moment’s Chris Roberts. From Is Facebook Shadow Banning Marijuana Pages, Including Government Ones?
Something’s up with Facebook and marijuana — again.
Recently, pages with “marijuana” and “cannabis” in their names stopped appearing in search results.
The pages are still active and can be found via direct links, but users without the URLs or bookmarks are out of luck, leading to questions about whether the social network is “shadow banning” the pages.
Facebook has yet to offer an explanation for this snafu, which is, for example, affecting the page for the California Bureau of Cannabis Control, the official government agency that regulates the state’s multi billion-dollar industry, as well as cannabis-focused media outlets like Marijuana Moment and Marijuana Business Daily and nonprofit advocacy groups like the Marijuana Policy Project.
A “shadow ban” is the term used for when a user’s web resource–a social-media page or a web-forum post–isn’t deleted or blocked, but is only visible to the individual user.
Advertisements for marijuana businesses or advocating cannabis use are regularly blocked on Facebook and other social-media websites—including Instagram, which is also a Facebook property—for violating community standards, which ban the sale of “illegal drugs.”
Algorithms often block promotions for news articles or other noncommercial posts that merely mention “marijuana” or “cannabis,” a situation that often requires lengthy appeals processes to clear automatically flagged content that doesn’t actually violate terms of service.
Last year, Twitter, which has more than 330 million active monthly users, briefly blocked all searches on its site for “marijuana.”
While censorship of uncomfortable truths and closed door meetings seem to be the future — and I have no problem with the latter, because the public isn’t informed and doesn’t want to be informed about the former based on ten full years experience — of the medical cannabis programs regulatory shenanigans here in Iowa, I’m working on suing about these injustices. But, it’s not personal, and nobody is actually responsible. It’s literally that I have a solution to problems that “make your head hurt,” and literally, like, omg — you just, can’t, even. Like seriously — “that’s a lot of words?”
Stop banning our pages instead of just not reading them.
Stop telling us you don’t want to listen.
Or we’re going to get way, way more blunted with our coverage.
A reminder that one of the lawsuits over free speech and censoring marijuana related discussions here in Iowa ended in a victory and we collected a cool $1,000,000.
See you in the best court humanity has ever designed. Again.
— Jason
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