On Thursday, October 22, 2020, 03:13:13 AM PDT, Zenaan Harkness
Worse than that - FB censors call to weigh SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett against a duck to prove she's not a witch. I mean, what's the world coming to when you can't do a quick duck check against a possible witch?
Shocking!
Facebook really should be ashamed of themselves, interfering in a SCOTUS election in this way - and after a challenge by the BabylonBee, FBook doubled down on their eleckshun interference.
(Oh, and free speech right to satire - but that's -so- mundane.) :
Netizens Slam Facebook’s ‘Woke Police’ For Banning Babylon Bee Satire on Grilling of Judge Barrett https://sputniknews.com/us/202010211080834168-netizens-slam-facebooks-woke-p...
Last Wednesday, the news satire website Babylon Bee ran a story with the headline, "Senator Hirono Demands ACB Be Weighed Against A Duck To See If She Is A Witch," in reference to the grilling Judge Amy Coney Barrett faced from a Hawaii senator, who asked the judge if she had ever "sexually assaulted" anyone.
Facebook has removed an article published by the conservative satirical site The Babylon Bee, mocking the grilling that Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett came under from Hawaii's Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono during last week's confirmation hearing.
> Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon slammed the decision by the social media giant, revealing on Twitter the heated debate the satirical piece had triggered.
So after a manual review, Facebook says they stand by their decision to pull down this article and demonetize our page. I'm not kidding. They say this article "incites violence." It's literally a regurgitated joke from a Monty Python movie! — Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) October 20, 2020 https://t.co/U9B6tTOj6N
While it may seem obvious to many of us, I think we should explicitly identify "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" as the movie this joke comes from. There aren't as many advantages to being "old" as I'd like, but one key one is that we've heard and seen A LOT. Which is great, as long as we've still got a good memory to go with it. My memory used to be truly astounding, but then Amy Coney Barrett turned me into a newt. But I got better... Jim Bell