Hall Monitor Nation

By Ann Coulter Apart from building the wall President Trumps most important act as president so far was his attack on internet censorship this week. The left controls all the cultural institutions -- the establishment media corporate America Hollywood Silicon Valley public schools and universities. The only breach in their total dominion of the flow of information is the internet. So now theyre fixated like a laser beam on private citizens yammering to one another online. Why cant people accept the officially certified news as delivered by respected truth-tellers like Brian Williams CNN and NBC -- the network that censored Juanita Broaddrick and illegally leaked the Access Hollywood tape? Liberals assessed the situation and correctly concluded: People are learning facts on the internet that weve been withholding from them so now they dont agree with us. We have to stop this. The media relentlessly lied to the public about Hillarys health denouncing conservatives as conspiracy theorists for mentioning it. Then an alert citizen with an iPhone captured Hillary having to be carried to her car at the 9/11 memorial service in 2016. Mainstream media outlets painted a cherubic picture of Michael Brown after he was fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson Missouri. He was a gentle giant gunned down like a dog as he plaintively cried Hands up! Dont shoot! HEY! Wait a second! How did that video get out of Brown manhandling a tiny Indian man while robbing a convenience store? That should have been suppressed like the Broaddrick interview! Would we ever have known about Monica Lewinsky but for the Drudge Report publishing the blockbuster story that Newsweek had killed? Currently the establishment media are in a rage that the public has found out about the modern genocide being waged against white South African farmers. I cant even blame them. If I were advising liberals Id say: Youve got only one small breach in the wall of sound; youve got to ban conservative speech on the internet. Its not as if the left has ever shown any particular commitment to free speech. They love transgressive ideas and controversial speech -- but only when theyre in the minority. As soon as they get control no more free speech for you! Just look at the universities. You might think that the exact same people wailing about Trump attacking the free press (fake news) would be too embarrassed to use their next breath to demand censorship on the internet. But thats exactly what theyre doing. On Sunday night MSNBC host Kasie Hunt spent her entire interview with Facebooks former chief information security officer Alex Stamos demanding that Facebook go pedal-to-the-metal on censoring conservatives. It was left to defender of the reich Stamos to mumble something about not banning speech based on content. Indignant that Alex Jones was allowed to foment dissent on controversial topics online Kasie asked Did Facebook react too slowly to the Alex Jones issue? ... Does Facebook have a responsibility to take on figures like this? Kasie then quoted Stamos back to himself citing a memo in which hed written: We need to be willing to pick sides when there are clear moral or humanitarian issues. One clear moral humanitarian issue for Facebook -- which according to Kasie isnt doing enough censoring -- is to prevent any criticism of caterwauling protesting illegal aliens. (That sentence just violated Facebooks Community Standards.) Last May I was notified by Facebooks Julia Smekalina that one of your posts was reported and found to be in violation of our Community Standards. Little Nazi block watchers are constantly reporting conservatives. They cant just stop following people they dont like. Liberals used to mock fundamentalist Christians claiming they feared that someone somewhere may be happy. Now theyre the ones haunted by the fear that someone somewhere may disagree with them. The offending post was from January months earlier when I retweeted John Binders story on Breitbart News headlined: Illegal aliens who say they deserve amnesty tell pro-amnesty Sen. Thom Tillis: Fck this conservative! Fck this person! Illegals screaming obscenities at a U.S. senator does not offend Facebook community standards. It was the comment added to the story by the pro-American immigration website Vdare: It would be so easy to just deport these parasites @realDonaldTrump. They hate you they hate your supporters they hate your party they hate our country. Why not just enforce the law and send them home? (The reason Im talking about tweets when it was Facebook that censored me is that I detest Facebook so the only posts of mine that ever showed up there were my tweets which used to transfer automatically. Now they dont so Ill never go to Facebook again.) Here is my full and complete exchange with Smekalina defender of Community Standards illustrating what a complete joy using Facebook is. From: Ann Coulter: okay youll have to tell me how to delete. nothing I click on offers the option of deleting. I wish youd spend more time making facebook user friendly. also can you please tell me how it violates community standards to support enforcing the law? is the word parasites forbidden? From: Julia Smekalina: ... yes comparing immigrants to parasites is the specific portion in violation of our policies. From: Ann Coulter: its obviously NOT about immigrants. its about illegal immigrants i.e. law breakers. is it a violation to call lawbreakers parasites? I never heard from Julia again but I gather she helpfully deleted the post for me. At the risk of bringing MSNBCs hammer down on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey the tweets still available there.