Paul Joseph Watson to sue Facebook for defamation after being falsely labeled a “dangerous” terrorist
May 08, 2019
(Natural News) As Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other major social media sites continue to censor and ban conservatives, one notable liberty fighter is fighting back after being permanently ‘de-personed’ by Mark Zuckerburg’s speech Nazis.
A week ago, YouTube sensation and former Infowars editor Paul Joseph Watson was banned by Facebook ostensibly as part of the social media behemoth’s drive to rid its platform of “dangerous” and “hateful” people. In addition, Infowars creator Alex Jones, conservative activist Laura Loomer, and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, among others, were given the boot.
In the aftermath, PJW said he had no idea why Facebook banned him — he was not given any warnings about the content he regularly posted, nor was he given any reason for being deplatformed, other than the standard ‘you’re hateful’ and ‘you’re violent’ pabulum.
But he’s not taking this lying down.
Writing on Infowars he noted:
Last week I was permanently banned by Facebook for being a “dangerous person”. I found out about it not through Facebook, which failed to even send me a single email, but through media reports.
They’ve put me in the same category as Louis Farrakhan, a man who compared Jews to termites and once described Adolf Hitler as a “very great man”.
The Instagram (owned by Facebook) ban was even “funnier” given my page consisted mainly of selfies and videos of myself and my girlfriend feeding ducks. Super dangerous.
But as humorous as it is, I take exception to being defamed as a “dangerous person.”
PJW went on to ask rhetorically, “To whom am I a danger, precisely? Mark Zuckerberg?”
He called the Facebook creator and multi-billionaire a “creep oligarch” whose social media platform is used by one-third of the world’s population (about 2.4 billion people), the thoughts of whom he seeks to control, PJW said. “Who’s the bigger danger?”
Watson noted further that he was ostensibly booted from the platform due to “a new policy which states if you post material about people Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t like” then that material will be summarily removed and the posting offender banned.
Tweeted support from the president isn’t enough
Meanwhile, users who post doubt and denials about the Holocaust — well documented historically in pictures, accounts, and video — are still permitted to spew real hate online and on Facebook. “But defend Alex Jones or share an InfoWars link and you’re in big, big trouble,” PJW wrote. (Related: Actor Rob Schneider lambasts “progressive Democrats” and tech giants over their unbelievable censorship: “We are in an Orwellian nightmare.”)
He went on to point out that CNN — that bastion of fake news — has also labeled him an “extremist,” to which he also takes issue. “I refuse to be defamed as an ‘extremist,’ too,” he writes.
Watson noted that he has never advocated the use of violence against anyone nor has he supported “hate” against any individual or organization.
“Media personality glibly repeated” the ‘hate’ and ‘violence’ characterizations “without citing any evidence for their proclamations,” said Watson. “I won’t allow that to stand.”
He pointed out that Maajid Usman Nawaz, a British activist who founded Quilliam, a think tank focusing on countering extremism, was falsely defamed as an “extremist” by the Southern Poverty Law Center; after Nawaz sued, the SPLC was forced to pay him $3 million for falsely impugning him.
Watson, founder of Summit.news, said that “like Nawaz,” he, too, has been threatened with death by Islamist — “actual extremists.” But he “won’t allow a target to be painted” on his back by Facebook and CNN.
He said that soon, Facebook will “be put on legal notice” regarding the harm their actions have caused him and forced to explain why he was labeled “dangerous” and summarily banned.
It’s not clear that Watson’s legal action will succeed, but he makes a great point in asking, “What is anyone actually doing to stop the rapacious social media censorship of conservatives?”
“While the President’s tweets about me last week were nice, tweets aren’t nearly enough.”
Read more about how the tech giants are systematically suppressing conservatives at TechGiants.news and Suppressed.news.
Sources include:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-05-08-paul-joseph-watson-to-sue-facebook-for-defamation.html
Facebook稱我為'危險的',想像一下我的震驚,不全是...
Facebook Calls me ‘Dangerous’. Imagine My Shock. No, Really…
To whom am I a danger?
我對誰是危險?
To whom am I a danger?
8 May, 2019
Last week I was permanently banned by Facebook for being a “dangerous person”. I found out about it not through Facebook, which failed to even send me a single email, but through media reports.
They’ve put me in the same category as Louis Farrakhan, a man who compared Jews to termites and once described Adolf Hitler as a “very great man”.
The Instagram (owned by Facebook) ban was even “funnier” given my page consisted mainly of selfies and videos of myself and my girlfriend feeding ducks. Super dangerous.
But as humorous as it is, I take exception to being defamed as a “dangerous person”.
To whom am I a danger, precisely? Mark Zuckerberg? A billionaire who wants to create a cult out of 2.4 billion people? A creepy oligarch who wants to dictate the thoughts that can be expressed by a third of the earth’s entire population? Who’s the bigger danger?
In tandem with this ban, Facebook instituted a new policy which states if you post material about people Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t like, it will be removed and you may be banned. Talk about a dangerous fucking egotist.
Holocaust denial? Still fine and rife across the platform. But defend Alex Jones or share an InfoWars link and you’re in big, big trouble.
And according to the new left, it is now “progressive” to allow a handful of corporate monopolists to control who has free speech and what opinions they can communicate. What was the point of the trials of humanity over the past 300 years if we were just going to end up with some little nerds in California dictating the terms of human civilization to us from behind their MacBook screens?
There’s also the absurdity of knowing that if someone who makes sardonic videos and snarky social media posts is that much of a threat to your establishment then your establishment must be really quite pathetic. I mean I’m hardly Robespierre. I make YouTube videos laughing at modern art and scoffing at brutalist architecture. If I’m that much of a “danger” to society, that’s more an illustration of how coddled and cowed western society has become.
https://youtu.be/-lB5QbMxvac
CNN also labeled me an “extremist”, which I also take exception with. I refuse to be defamed as an “extremist”, too.
I have never advocated violence and I have never advocated “hate” against any individual or group. The establishment is putting me in the same category as human traffickers, serial killers, and terrorists. For what? Poking fun at pudgeball Michael Moore?
Media personalities glibly repeated this characterization without citing any evidence for their proclamations. I won’t allow that to stand. Maajid Nawaz was awarded over $3 million dollars after being falsely labeled an “extremist” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Like Nawaz, I have received death threats from Islamists. You know, actual extremists. I won’t allow a target to be painted on my back, which is exactly what Facebook and CNN are trying to do, and it isn’t like they don’t know it.
Facebook will shortly be put on legal notice about the harm that their actions have caused and will be mandated to turn over all information and internal discussions as to why I was designated as a “dangerous” person and why I was banned. Lawyers tell me their behavior is “fairly extraordinary”.
Meanwhile, what is anyone actually doing to stop the rapacious social media censorship of conservatives?
While the President’s tweets about me last week were nice, tweets aren’t nearly enough.
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It’s not implausible to suggest that given the increasingly online nature of political campaigns, if platform neutrality is not secured, we could never see a Republican (or more accurately a true “America first” Republican) in the White House ever again.
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