FACEBOOK AGAIN REVEALS ITS PRO-REMAIN POLITICAL BIAS
Some time on Thursday last week Facebook
“Disabled” my “Personal Profile”.
The first I knew about this was when I tried
to sign on to check if I had had any messages. I was then told that the account
had been “Disabled”.
Here is exactly what the text said:-
“Your account has been disabled
For more information, or if you think your account was disabled by
mistake visit the Help Centre”
For more
information about our policies please review the Facebook Community
Standards. If you think your account was
disabled by mistake please contact us.”
I of course thought that that must be wrong
and therefore went to their next page which said:-
“Why was
my account disabled?
Your account
has been disabled for violating Facebook’s Statement of Rights and
Responsibilities.
Our Policies
One of
Facebook’s main priorities is the comfort and safety of our members. The following are not allowed on Facebook:
· Support for a
violent and/or criminal organization or group
· Credible
threats to harm others or the promotion of self-destructive behaviour
· Targeting
other individuals on the site
· Hate speech
or singling people out based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion,
sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability or disease
· Graphic
content including sadistic displays of violence against people or animals and
depictions of sexual assault
· Selling
recreational or pharmaceutical drugs
Learn More
After looking carefully at that page I was
able to see that there was some element of an appeal process, so I clicked onto
the link they provided and got a page which only told me to send them a PDF of
my passport or other ID.
So all I was able to do in response to my
Profile being “Disabled” was to send them an image of my passport to confirm my
identity!
On Friday I received a response saying that
the ID Team couldn’t help with any appeal!
Which is absolutely hopeless.
At that point I thought Facebook’s procedures
for appeals were completely inadequate and didn’t even remotely approach the
basic “Rules of Natural Justice”. I
therefore sent off an email to every Facebook email address that I had
got.
Here is my email to them:-
“Dear
Sir
I have tried
to log in to my above profile and your system asked me to submit an ID
check. There is no proper detail of any
reason why this happened nor a clear appeal process just some generic items
which can’t be relevant to me.
I am
currently a candidate standing in an election here in England and I have
already done your double identity check for political figures and advertising
so you should be aware.
Here in the
UK it is a crime under the Representation Of the People Acts for candidates to
be slandered so I would politely ask you to sort this out and restore my
profile or I shall get the police involved tomorrow.”
In reply I did get this answer:-
“Hi Robin,
Thanks for
your report. We’ll review the
information you provided and get back to you when we have an update on your
report.
In the
meantime, you can review our Community Standards to learn more bout what is and
isn’t allowed on Facebook:
We appreciate
your patience.
View updates
from your Support Inbox: https://fb.me/1FCup0kANUMY5ok
Thanks,
The Facebook
Team
At the time of writing this blog, I have not
received any substantive response explaining either why they have done it or
what they are going to do about it.
I, in common with many other EU Parliamentary
candidates, did receive a visit from the police advising us on security and so
have received contact details of the officer who is responsible for dealing
with political crime. I have therefore started the process of reporting this
matter to the police, since Facebook would seem to interfering in an election
which could well amount to a criminal offence.
The police have acknowledged that they are now
investigating Facebook’s actions.
I shall wait and see what the police will do
about this before considering my civil options against Facebook, which at the
least would seem to amount to a breach of contract and may well be at least an
implicit defamation in wrongfully disabling my profile.
Facebook’s actions call into question what
exactly this is all about.
I should explain that I have had my profile up
on Facebook for at least 10 years (although I now of course cannot check
exactly when I signed up!). In all that
time I have not been banned or warned of a ban for anything that I have ever
posted up. That is quite simply because
I have not posted up anything that is even remotely against Facebook’s so
called “Community Values”, nor even of questionable taste.
Furthermore I would say that as far as my
profile is concerned I had not actually posted up anything new on my profile
for quite a few days. Also I hadn’t
posted up anything else, other than updates about the case which I as a
solicitor and Chairman of the English Democrats, am bringing against the
Government (to get a Declaration that, as a result of our Notice expiring, we
were Out on the 29th March!).
In addition Facebook is well aware of my being
involved in politics as a few months ago they had written to me to ask for me
to sign up to what they describe as something along the lines of ‘double identity
verification’ for political figures which would then allow me to place
political adverts. I had done this and I
had also placed a few political adverts.
So the situation is my profile has been
disabled and this has happened in the context where I have only been posting
information up about the case.
I had not even posted up very much about the
English Democrats and myself having stood in the EU elections. That is of course because the primary reason
for standing in the EU elections was to publicise the case.
Since what I am aiming to achieve with the
case is that a Declaration that were actually already out and that therefore
these elections are null and void.
In response to this activity Facebook has
disabled my profile without notice and without giving any explanation as to why
they have behaved in this way and without providing a proper appeals
process!
Could this have anything to do with Facebook’s
internationalist/globalist agenda and of their appointment as a Director of
Nick Clegg of the “Bollocks to Brexit” Liberal Democrats?
Go figure!
It certainly points to interference by a certain N. Clegg of the Liberal Democrat persuasion, or one of his acolytes. Of course, it could be any vindictive Facebook account holder!
ReplyDeleteThe former looks more probable. I agree that their procedures are totally inadequate as is their appeals procedure!
Isn't it strange that the only Nation in the UK, which is not allowed to be proud of its Country is England? If you are Scottish, you are allowed to be patriotic. If you are Welsh, you are allowed to be patriotic. If you are Irish, you are allowed to be proud of who you are. Why not the English? It is also disgraceful that England is the only Country in the EU without its OWN parliament.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why the silly court case against Boris Johnson is being rushed through, while Robin Tilbrook's court case is still being delayed. Is there no deadline the courts have to follow, or can they just delay Robin Tilbrook's case for years?
ReplyDeleteRobin this is just a repeat of the Redfearn v Serco case all over again. Discrimination on the grounds of political beliefs again. The UK government STILL hasn't complied with 2012 ruling from Strasbourg.
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Surely, if the Government wins the argument that it was legal to extend A50 without an act of Parliament, then it follows that they could extend A50 indefinitely, assuming the EU's acquiescence. Thus revoking A50 without an act of Parliament.
ReplyDeleteIt also follows that they could reduce the time limit on A50 if they so desire.
So, why have Parliament debate the issue at all.
Robin.
ReplyDeleteYou are correct Robin, this was a politically motivated attack. Don't they remember the 2012 Redfearn v UK case in Strasbourg? Or do they think they can cherry pick which parts of the law apply to and which do not but sadly the UK government has not really fully implemented the 2012 ruling. As you are aware, the Equality Act only makes philosophical belief a protected characteristic in limited circumstances.
You may have to sue them Robin.
francis
Robin slightly off topic here but I've been reading one of Gina Miller's counsel comments about your application to the High Court.
ReplyDeleteI am of the opinion that she is misreading the withdrawal legislation or at least twisting its meaning to suit the remain narrative. The White Paper detaining how we would leave the EU is the most important part and explains that we are leaving the EU. The counsel for Miller is reading it in reverse and trying to invent loopholes in order to undermine your case. Ask your counsel Mr Hoar for an opinion on this matter, thanks Robin.
francis
A friend of mine has had her account disabled because she has posted Christian scriptures. I find this most worrying that Facebook are blocking people based on their religious beliefs. By closing people down they are creating division.
ReplyDeleteHi Robin, You have run up against what is now being referred to as the deep state. It is the very small number of super wealthy families who own 40% of the international corporations. These corporations effectively form one large interconnected control system which attempts, so far very successfully, to run the world behind the scenes. they control governments, courts, and police forces. They have infiltrated all major organizations both public and private. You are threatening one of their pet projects, and they don't like it.
ReplyDeleteRobin, we need a 'social media bans procedure' law. It needs to be an offence to ban anyone without explanation and / or wrongfully, with fines for doing either. Some might complain that the social media platforms need to be free to ban who they want. No, as we are not talking about individual rights (in terms of the platforms) but we are in terms of bans. They are very powerful and there needs to be safeguards against them being used politically. The platforms must be held to account to be neutral and allow all sides of reasonable debate.
ReplyDeleteThis is worth checking out if you have not done so already. The project exposes the same thing going on over the pond - http://projectveritas.com
ReplyDeleteAny progress,? There is a chance that a senior MP with deep experience of news media has at last begun to understand the depth and scope of the subversion being carried out by US-controlled social media - and is gathering evidence as a basis for regulation and compulsory codes of conducts for social media platform operators.
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