Diamond and Silk. Maybe you know of these two internet celebrities, maybe you don’t. But they are the politically incorrect, often hilarious, often very insightful pair of Black women who have no problem in talking about their support of President Donald Trump and their reasons why…
…which, in the censorious world of facebook (among other communication-oriented websites) has put a target on their backs.
So what has this resulted in? I’ll let Diamond and Silk tell you in their own words….via a facebook post describing what happened and asking a number of pointed questions about it:
Diamond And Silk have been corresponding since September 7, 2017, with Facebook (owned by Mark Zuckerberg), about their bias censorship and discrimination against D&S brand page. Finally after several emails, chats, phone calls, appeals, beating around the bush, lies, and giving us the run around, Facebook gave us another bogus reason why Millions of people who have liked and/or followed our page no longer receives notification and why our page, post and video reach was reduced by a very large percentage. Here is the reply from Facebook. Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 3:40 PM: “The Policy team has came to the conclusion that your content and your brand has been determined unsafe to the community.” Yep, this was FB conclusion after 6 Months, 29 days, 5 hrs, 40 minutes and 43 seconds. Oh and guess what else Facebook said: “This decision is final and it is not appeal-able in any way.” (Note: This is the exact wording that FB emailed to us.)
So our questions to Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg) are:
1. What is unsafe about two Blk-women supporting the President Donald J. Trump?
2. Our FB page has been created since December 2014, when exactly did the content and the brand become unsafe to the community?
3. When you say “community” are you referring to the Millions who liked and followed our page?
4. What content on our page was in violation?
5. If our content and brand was so unsafe to the community, why is the option for us to boost our content and spend money with FB to enhance our brand page still available? Maybe FB should give us a refund since FB censored our reach.
6. Lastly, didn’t FB violate their own policy when FB stopped sending notifications to the Millions of people who liked and followed our brand page?
This is deliberate bias censorship and discrimination. These tactics are unacceptable and we want answers!
~Diamond and Silk
Terrific post. Good for them.
But let’s understand something: Diamond and Silk, salient though their points may be, are collateral damage.
The main event here is that leftists like Zuckerman, Jack Dorsey who runs Twitter, Sundar Pichai (and, before him, Eric Schmidt) of Google, etc. are, to a truly unsettling degree, in charge of what we can and cannot access on the internet.
If they have their way, dissenting voices, if they are allowed at all, will be given as nominal a voice to the public as possible. Based on numerous examples in addition to Diamond and Silk, this is not conjecture, it is reality.
Regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, if there power to censor what we say and hear/read from others doesn’t scare the absolute crap out of you, you better wake up.
Even for fans of Zuckerman, Dorsey and Pichai/Schmidt, who are thrilled with suppression of conservative views, it might be good to remember that old saying, “what goes around, comes around”.
