About two weeks ago, Facebook removed all posts linking to this blog and the company has prevented all new posts with links to this site. It’s a block across all of Facebook’s platforms, including Instagram. There was no explanation and Facebook never responded to my appeal: the brief note I wrote in the dialog box when I tried to post a link to an article on this site.
This is an educational site. There are no sales, no unsolicited emails, and no offensive content (well, to anti-racists, at least). Meanwhile, Facebook provides a free platform for white supremacists, grifters, and foreign nationals hellbent on wrecking our republic.
Go ahead, try and post a link to this site, blog.historian4hire.net, on Facebook and see what happens. Let me know in the comments if you come up with a reasonable answer.
With Facebook, there are no appeals and the company simply closes disputes unilaterally with no explanations.
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So much for freedom of speech. I am not shocked however, since this is happening with many sites, which unfortunately is removing our very rights given through the Constitution. I’ve enjoyed your site and I’m sorry there is nothing to be done.
Recently, Amazon closed my writer’s account, which I’d had for nearly 10 years and counted on for a major portions of my income. No explanation. They mentioned unacceptable content. I wrote Amish books and Christian literature. No violence. No profanity. No sex. (That was probably the problem) The only thing even possibly controversial was one character who decided to give birth rather than have an abortion. No condemnation, just a decision.
It’s very sad to see our rights being removed. Perhaps one day we’ll see the return of common sense and our democratic rights renewed.
June Belfie
That’s bizarre: No “unacceptable content …. Amish books and Christian literature. No violence. No profanity. No sex.” We have ceded too much to these tech giants.
I did try to share one of your posts on Facebook and the error message that popped up was “Your message couldn’t be sent because it includes content that other people on Facebook have reported as abusive.” I am new to your site but so far have seen nothing fitting that description!
your republic is breaking others. I’m asuming you live in the US. What your country wants, your country gets. Think about what happened in Bolivia. It is just a way of how your country, Great britain and of course, Israel conduct at least since the last 100 years.