Free Speech, RIP

"Yes, the US spent $5 billion to overthrow the elected Ukrainian government, according to Victoria Nuland, who should know, since she was there, passing out cookies and picking the next dictator.
"Yats! Yats is the guy".
Now Ukraine has open Nazis in the government, glorifying their Nazi ancestors, killing over 10,000 civilians in eastern Ukraine, and attacking gays, Russians, Roma and political opponents in the rest of Ukraine.
But we're supposed to send those brutal Nazis more weapons?
On what planet is that a good idea?"


I made this comment on a Facebook thread in which Dems were complaining that Trump insisted that the Reps take out a plank in the Republican platform supporting sending more military aid to Ukraine, which the Dems were saying was a bad thing to do. Someone else pointed out that Ukraine has a fascist government, put in by the US in 2014, after the US supported a coup to overthrow the elected government. I then added my comment.


Facebook then informed me that I was banned for 24 hours, because my comment did not uphold "community standards".

Community standards? The community doesn't approve of anti-Nazi statements? What kind of community are you people running here?


On second thought, it is perfectly logical that the community supports Nazis, and censors truth-tellers. This is what the US has devolved to.

When I was a kid, snitches were frowned upon and free speech was upheld. It was not the First Amendment that guaranteed free speech as much as the widely held belief among Americans that everyone had a right to express their opinion.

From the "I may not agree with what you have to say but I will defend to the death your right to say it", to the frequently expressed saying, when someone said or did something uncommon or bizarre, "Hey! It's a free country" (usually accompanied by a shrug of the shoulders).


But, no more. Starting with the indoctrination that "offensive speech" was not to be allowed, through safe places for the easily offended, right up to the rousing of the social justice warriors to violence, with the battle cry "Punch a Nazi!", the idea that bad words were to be stopped, by rules or by violence, has been widely accepted by those who formerly would have been in the forefront of defending people's rights.

After Mark Zuckerberg was hauled in front of Congress, and sternly lectured that Facebook could no longer allow people to say whatever they wanted, (what kind of nonsense is this "free speech"?) because, as they put it, they didn't want the Wild West (i.e. freedom) to continue, those sniveling snowflake snitches who can't stand to see someone express an opinion, or give facts, of which they disapprove, have been given immense powers to simply banish people to the cornfield.


What a gift to bullying goons! You don't like another person's ideas? You disapprove of their facts? Report them to the authorities, and they are gone, banished, disappeared. You have turned the Wild West into something more to your liking, Oceania. And any Winston Smiths still around will be dealt with appropriately.