I wrote yesterday about how nextdoor.com is ethnically cleansing its site. They’re cracking down on even the most moderately conservative content, as they fall ever more inexorably into the most extreme wokeism.
As you know, both Jack Saunders and I are in nextdoor jail. And now, Facebook has jumped into the act. For the first time, they censored yesterday’s blog post after I published it; and when Jack tried to post it too, they took that down as well. We’re not sure why. Social media censors seldom share their reasons for their anonymous executions. Facebook said an “algorithm” picked up on something that determined my post was “spam.” That’s crazy. We’ve been putting my blog up on CBO’s Facebook page for a long time and this never happened. So we don’t know what’s going on. But one thing is clear: social media, at least at Facebook and nextdoor.com, is growing ever more hostile to any opinion that dares to differ with wokeism.
It’s easy, under such circumstances, to get paranoid. Some of our members are speculating that Facebook and nextdoor.com are in cahoots, sharing information in order to “disappear” dissenting voices. There is, in fact, a business relationship between nextdoor and Facebook. The former is associated with the latter’s Facebook Audience Network, which “increases the visibility of advertisers’ Facebook ads via off-Facebook platforms” such as nextdoor.com. These relationships are very murky, but we can assume that both Facebook and nextdoor profit in some way.
Beyond that, it’s impossible to know with any certainty why Facebook would follow so closely in nextdoor’s obvious crackdown on the Coalition for a Better Oakland. Of course, when you don’t know what’s going on, and you’re the victim of huge, dark forces you are not permitted to understand, all sort of conspiracy theories may arise. Did someone at nextdoor tell Facebook about this nefarious organization, the Coalition for a Better Oakland? Or is the explanation as simple as that offered by Facebook: that they created an algorithm which mistakenly identified my post as “spam”?
We may never know the answer. Meanwhile, we have to deal with the fact that communication with our audience is getting harder because the owners of these social media sites are censoring us. This isn’t complaining or whining on my part. Ever since we started the Coalition, I’ve anticipated blowback by the powers that be. And this is what blowback looks like: censorship.
If, my friends, all this concerns you, there are certain things you can do to help. Please refer your friends to our website, cfabo.org! Urge them to join us. Because one thing is for sure: Nobody can censor our website!!! I will continue to tell the truth as best I can, and even if every social media site on Earth should ban us, cfabo.org will remain unafraid and unbowed.
Thank you.
Steve Heimoff