Diamond And Silk Censored by Facebook as “Unsafe to the Community” - UPDATE
UPDATE with new video:
Facebook has since backtracked over classifying the conservative firebrands as “unsafe,” admitting error in how the situation was handled.
“We have communicated directly with Diamond and Silk about this issue. The message they received last week was inaccurate and not reflective of the way we communicate with our community and the people who run Pages on our platform,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News.
But Diamond says Facebook did not reach out to them regarding the issue following the uproar. “They never communicated to us. The last communication that we got was they deemed us unsafe to the community,” she said.
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I don't know why my original source disappeared when I updated this seed. Sorry about that!
Kimmel's a fucking hypocrite. Sean Hannity called him out and now he's trying to walk back and make excuses.
I think their faces are unsafe to the community! Dumb phony ass bitches. Deleted CoC {SP}
Removed; please flag rather than engage and escalate. {SP}
How superficial can one be !
I did flag comment 1.2, Split Personality. You even deleted the part that referred to me. By the way, I had no intention of escalating anything. Thanks for taking care of it.
Please don't cry, Tessy. Be happy! Everything is OK.
The left always tries to censor and suppress any viewpoints and opinions that differ from their own socialist agenda
Video ( start at 33:24 ) -
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=fox+and+friends+weekend+4%2f8&qpvt=fox+and+friends+weekend+4%2f8&view=detail&mid=D1F24F73B8F90E5BAD5DD1F24F73B8F90E5BAD5D&&FORM=VDRVRV
“Diamond And Silk have been corresponding since September 7, 2017, with Facebook (owned by Mark Zuckerberg), about their bias censorship and discrimination against D&S brand page.”
“Finally after several emails, chats, phone calls, appeals, beating around the bush, lies, and giving us the run around, Facebook gave us another bogus reason why Millions of people who have liked and/or followed our page no longer receives notification and why our page, post and video reach was reduced by a very large percentage.”
“Here is the reply from Facebook. Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 3:40 PM: ‘The Policy team has came to the conclusion that your content and your brand has been determined unsafe to the community.'”
“Yep, this was FB conclusion after 6 Months, 29 days, 5 hrs, 40 minutes and 43 seconds. Oh and guess what else Facebook said: “This decision is final and it is not appeal-able in any way.” (Note: This is the exact wording that FB emailed to us.)”
Diamond and Silk then posed multiple questions to Facebook and specifically the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The questions are;
1. What is unsafe about two Blk-women supporting the President Donald J. Trump?
2. Our FB page has been created since December 2014, when exactly did the content and the brand become unsafe to the community?
3. When you say “community” are you referring to the Millions who liked and followed our page?
4. What content on our page was in violation?
5. If our content and brand was so unsafe to the community, why is the option for us to boost our content and spend money with FB to enhance our brand page still available? Maybe FB should give us a refund since FB censored our reach.
6. Lastly, didn’t FB violate their own policy when FB stopped sending notifications to the Millions of people who liked and followed our brand page?
Breitbart News has reached out to Facebook for comment on the issue but has yet to receive a reply at the of the writing of this article.
This isn’t the first time that Diamond and Silk have faced internet censorship, the YouTube stars had their videos demonetized from YouTube’s platform in August of 2017. The duo claimed that YouTube had “stopped over 95% percent of our videos from being monetized, stating: ‘It’s Not Suitable For All Advertisers’.” http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/04/08/facebook-allegedly-deems-pro-trump-diamond-and-silk-unsafe-to-the-community/
It looks like they won the battle and FB is restoring them fully.
We are better off without FB policing content.
Zuckerberg is answering questions now. Mike Lee asked him about how FB intends to be even handed if they are going to monitor lively debate?
Zuckerberg's answer was that he would try to be unbiased with the liberal caveat - that he would also not allow anyone to be bullied or offended! We know what that means, don't we? If there is a debate between a pro-choice and pro-lifer, it's the pro-life individual that gets content removed!
Zuckerberg has already shown his obvious bias as has the deep state. He is before Congress because Cambridge Analytica took FB members private info and used it to aid the Trump Campaign. Oddly enough the Obama campaign was offered help by Zuckerberg:
"According to Carol Davidsen, the former media director for Obama for America, Facebook gave the 2012 Obama campaign direct access to the personal data of Facebook users in violation of its internal rules, making a special exception for the campaign. The Daily Mail, a British newspaper, reported that Davidsen said on Twitter March 18 that Facebook employees came to the campaign office and “were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.”
Funny, not a peep about that.
It doesn't fit the liberal bullshit that FB pushes.
Within the last few months when it was exposed that the same data mining company used by Obama was supporting Trump.
Their "community" are just the liberal fools offended by EVERYTHING.
It was anything and everything that goes against the liberal agenda and supports Trump.
Because you are a cash cow for them. The minute you stop making them money, they cut you off. Apparently the revenue is down so here we are.
You aren't supposed to question the liberal agenda. Despite 90% of it making absolutely no sense.
And so the coverup and propaganda is put in place.
Go back to Facebook? He knew he wasn't going back to Facebook, but he was taking Facebook with him to the campaign. They've been harvesting or mining information long before these latest revelations. The news focuses on the Trump Administration and the organization who worked with them as though it was so corrupt, but it was given to Obama because it promoted the World Wide Left, but the citizens didn't know it was happening then.
And true to form, Zuckerberg follows the Hillary Clinton tradition of deleting the evidence....
Database mining at it's best including all the Social Medias.
NGP VAN
Turn social influence into action.
So the beat goes on with a bump here and there, they continue to march on with little to no effective resistance to control what we hear, what we see and what we believe while gathering immense information on each of us to control everything in our lives.
They say the best way to boil a frog is to put the frog in a pot on the stove and little by little turn the heat up. By the time the frog realizes something is wrong, it will be too late and he won't be able to set himself free.
So be it with a society who are being indoctrinated little by little, brainwashed little by little, losing their freedom little by little until it is too late to do anything about it.
we have not reached that point. in the end we will win the fight.
the NSA and military intelligence already has it all.
investigation 101
"never ask a question unless you already know the answer."
mark zuckerborg does not know it... but he is currently being strapped into the ejection seat.
Cheers
Facebook and You Tube censor Diamond and Silk, calling what they say "unsafe to the community" ---
but they allow "safe to the community" videos of Kathy Griffin holding up a replica of Donald Trump's bloodied, decapitated head, ISIS burning and beheading men? They also allow "safe to the community" videos of Muslims stoning women and performing female castration on children.
Yea, I don't get it. I watch them on F&F sometimes and nothing they say is crude or "unsafe". I guess FB only allows certain people or groups to have an opinion. I sent my sister a text this morning when I heard about this, and she said they have done the same thing to Dan Bongino and Ted Cruz. I missed Dan's segment this morning because I was getting my little on the bus.
I find them to be truthful and humorous. The Left (FB and YouTube) seem to be offended by truth.
Yes, Facebook and You Tube have censored Bongino and Cruz. They've also censored Prager U, Campus Reform, NRA, and Michelle Malkin. Many everyday FB users who post articles about illega l immigration, Muslim terrorism, and anti-gun control are thrown into "Facebook jail" (account suspended) for a month.
Diamond & Silk were on F & F this morning and shared the newest response they got from Facebook. It's hilarious! It seems that FB doesn't even know that D & S are the owners of their brand!
Well that would explain why I don't see Michelle's posts anymore. I see more content on IG that interests me, NRA has not been censored there, but I imagine it's only a matter of time since FB owns IG. I'm really curious to see the Zuck before congress and I wonder if the issue of censorship with come up.
Facebook's newest comment from the video:
It's obvious that Facebook is lying, because D & S haven't received anything from FB to "resolve this matter". Diamond & Silk are the creators of their brand.
Malkin isn't welcome on left-wing stations. She's often on FNC programs and created her venue, CRTV.
What is IG?
I don't know which major search engine you use, but if it's Google, I suggest that you switch to one that doesn't track you as much. I use Duck Duck Go and on occasion Bing. DDG is the best of the 3.
It's Instagram. Haven't heard of DDG, I'll check it out! I usually use Bing
Thanks. I don't use that.
DDG claims that it doesn't track or collect info on us like Google does. So far, I've seen this to be true. Bing is good, but they do track us, but not as much as Google.
for the most part DDG claims are true - but i found this and it was interesting (i'm not trying to argue that DDG doesn't track or does track etc, i'm just pointing this out that i ran across while doing research, that's all) -- -- now this was 5 years ago, so i'm hopeful that they've made better improvements since then.
I got an IG when my oldest was going to Disney with her 8th grade dance team. They were going to be posting pics and updates about their trip there. In the last year, I found myself using it more than FB, you don't see as much censorship there. Quite frankly, I'm about done with social media, it was a good idea at first but I think it has taken on a mind of it's own, or rather, it's owners or whoever runs it.
Thanks for the link!
no problem
It's just something i stumbled across and thought was interesting - privacy is a big concern.
I confess that I read the article quickly, but I plan to read it more carefully. Thanks again!
It sure is, and it's alarming to learn how many people don't know how to protect themselves at the most basic levels.
Thanks! I think I will be changing home screens for the household laptops!
It's the best that I've found so far. I don't mean this in a derogatory manner, but most people don't realize that even when we clear cookies, super cookies, and cache, even DDG can eventually track you. The Internet is a monster Whack-a-Mole that is uncontrollable.
I checked it out. In little print to the right of their search box, it says "Enhanced by Google". Since I won't use the regular Google, I'm not going to use a site that is "enhanced" by it. Thanks anyway! :)
I smell regulations coming for facebook, youtube, and twitter.
Two proud black women being censored by a multi billion dollar company and not one liberal to support them. What a shame.
It's sad that not one of the famously outspoken defenders of women's civil rights (Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Linda Sarsour, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Elizabeth Warren, Barbra Streisand, Madonna, etc) have been outraged about what Facebook and You Tube have done to Diamond and Silk. Instead, all we have are crickets from them. Very telling about their hypocritical agenda.
Sounds like you don't understand what free speech is. Most conservatives don't.....they all seem to think that private companies have an obligation to give any moron a platform.
During his congressional sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday, Zuckerberg got a concise lesson about the First Amendment from both Democrat and Republican men and women that made him blush and stammer. Time will tell whether Zuckerberg follows through on his statements that he's going to fix the algorithms that currently suppress Conservative voices.
Other than trying to ridicule/demean 1st Warrior, what was the point you were trying to make?
Please explain how the 1st Amendment restricts the actions of a private company.
As I said, it seems that conservatives don't know much of anything about the topic.
There have been several seeds and articles and comments from liberals that don't either. There are a few commented here that believe that conservatives and conservative views should be banned from this site. There is currently another seed published about a liberal who thinks her employer violated her 1st amendment rights and there are plenty of lefties wrongs taking her side.
You want to be the pot this time?
There's no need for me to do this, because Facebook is not a private company.
If you wish to discuss Facebook's public trading, create your own seed. My seed is a discussion about Facebook's censorship of Diamond and Silk.
So apparently you don't know the difference between a company that is owned by shareholders (still technically a private company as not all members of the public own Facebook stock) and entities that are not allowed to violate the 1st amendments restrictions making discriminatory laws.
"The First Amendment ( Amendment I ) to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making any law respecting an establishment of religion , prohibiting the free exercise of religion , or abridging the freedom of speech , the freedom of the press , the right to peaceably assemble , or to petition for a governmental redress of grievances ."
So Facebook has every right to limit what they want on their platform, they are not restricted by the 1st amendment.
They are, however, limited by civil rights legislation as a publicly traded company instead of a "private members only club" which doesn't have to abide by civil rights law. Civil rights include the ensuring of peoples' physical and mental integrity, life, and safety; protection from discrimination on grounds such as race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, colour, age, political affiliation, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
So Facebook has every right to monitor and block/edit any content that private users are attempting to publish through their platform as long as they are not discriminating solely on peoples' race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, colour, age, political affiliation, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
If Facebook was discriminating against Diamond & Silk because they're black, then they are violating the law. If they were even discriminating purely on political affiliation, then they are violating the law. In this case that may actually be the truth even though some Facebook employee claimed their content, specifically something they posted that was seen as a "threat" to pro-choice Americans, was not acceptable which prompted this censorship. If it was purely based on political affiliation then Facebook was wrong and they're right.
You apparently don't understand what a private company is or what the 1st Amendment restricts. Did you perhaps skip high school civics?
Here's a hint: the 1st Amendment restricts what the federal and state governments do, it doesn't restrict any company or any individual or any group of individuals. It's rather amusing that several conservatives here aren't aware of such basic facts about our constitution.
Doubtful unless the two women live in California and can file a complaint there. While public accommodations laws would likely apply to this situation I think only CA protects political affiliation in that area. It's otherwise not protected under state or federal law for public accommodations.
These token negroes for Donald Rump have all the support of the Donald Rump supporters.
Ahhhh - the standard, absolutely no thought drive-by.
Really intelligent and titillating discussion - as usual.
Then I'm sure you'll easily agree that Keith Ellison, Kamala Harris, and Cory Booker have been Nancy Pelosi's, Hillary Clinton's, Elizabeth Warren's, and even Barack Obama's "token negroes".
How very bigotted and racist of you!
Thank You Jasper! I was going to say the same but had to go cut my back yard.... it tends to become a jungle(oh wow, am I allowed to say that?) if it isn't done weekly.... Of course any homeowner would know that. I am home during the week so I fit in cutting the yard so hubs doesn't have to..... when he does, it cuts into our family time. We are a team and have been for an awesome 17 years. I love our family time
Love how they are "token" negros or black folk..... when they identify as GOP...... Hey, my daughter, my oldest, identifies and has several liberal tendencies.....Is she the liberals token white girl? Pretty sure she is..... I was very close to flagging that comment, because I found it rude and crude (which is to be expected from that person), but I didn't....
These photos all appear with blurbs of stories on the seeds source website. It is a right wing website that is filled with liberal bashing and race baiting articles.
I havent seen Diamond and Silk since early in the Trump campaign. I saw a couple of their bits , which are second rate liberal bashing supposedly emboldened by the comics being black and thus "off the plantation" and somehow inordinately brave.
I dont recall them as having any noticeable talent or insight, and they seemed like two pointless opportunists trying to cash in on the election and political turmoil overtaking the country.
In short, who cares about Diamond and Silk?
The majority of the population in about 30 states...
Apparently, you do since you took the time to make comments.
'In short, who cares about Diamond and Silk?'
Only Donald Rump ass kissers. And Diamond and Silk
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Diamond and silk are "Black"..... "Women" !!!!!!!!!!!!!
we do not censor opposing political speech in this country.
this why zuckerborg is going to find his company regulated by congress and why today's left cannot be trusted to run our country.
MMMMMMMHMMMMM, I watched that goober today and you are exactly right.
In his 2 days of questioning this week, he lied at least twice. He said that FB discussed this issue with Diamond and Silk. As of last night, both women stated that FB has not contacted them.
I laughed when he said that he didn't know/understand his own business model.
Well duh, No shit Sherlock.
Token negroes for Donald Rump.
Skirting the CoC [ph]
Funny thing, they just posted on their IG page that FB finally reached out to them via TWITTER!
Well, that's good. As of last night when they were on Laura Ingraham's show, they again said that FB hadn't reached out to them even though Zuckerberg said on both Tuesday and Wednesday that they had.
I just checked to see what time they had posted that, it was an hour ago.
I saw that too. Why via twitter though? I know FB owns IG but twitter? They have been in contact with them since last year, why wouldn't they call or email? I'm assuming FB has that info
I was just thinking the same thing.
Diamond and Silk? Donald Rump?
True.
Zuckerberg had no choice but to act, and quickly. Both Democrats and Republicans backed him into a corner and heavily questioned him about Facebook's censorship of D & S and their followers. They didn't find his pathetic answers acceptable or amusing.
Here's what D & S said about the Twitter contact.
I keep my FB on lockdown, my # isn't listed and I generally don't PM people on there. I hardly ever post on there anymore since most of what I do is share pics of my girls which I do now on IG since my family has finally joined. I'm keeping my IG around since our middle girl is about to go to Disney with her middle school dance team and thats where they will be sharing pics and updates. Quite frankly, I'm tired of social media and considered deactivating my accts, especially FB. IG doesn't seem that bad and I don't have a twitter, tumblr, snapchat or whatever else is out there LOL. Honestly, I got FB to play farmville LOL. Everytime I called my mom or sister I would hear the barn animals in the background and I didn't want to be left out LOL. I don't play it anymore and haven't in years. I will admit to candy crush though.....I'm hooked on CC Jelly and I'm almost ashamed to say I'm on level 1115
Good questions. Since Zuckerberg couldn't even describe what his business model is, it's logical to believe that he also doesn't know what email, USPS, or a telephone are.
How do those 6 people pertain to the topic of this seed, John Russell? Stop derailing my seeds.
Diamond And Silk are not credible people. The web site you seeded the story from is not a credible news site. The six photos are evidence of that./
Take it or leave it.
Your opinion. Period.
Who are you to say what is credible or not? Hell, every time someone calls out your sources as not credible, you fall into the fetal position and bitch like a 3 year old.
Saw an interview with them last evening. Contrary to FB they have not been contacted.
So if a business thinks advocating homosexual rights is dangerous, then the homosexuals can be banned?
I look forward to your explanation of how your "The Onion"-type article pertains to reality and facts of what Facebook has done to people, JBB. You are intelligent, so I am sure you are up to the task.
The thing about political satire is that there is a hell of a lot of truth involved in that kind of humor...
I agree. However, Michael Harriott's rudimentary grasp of political satire ( comment 15 ) is what plebeians admire. To learn what real political satire is, he and others should read and learn from the works of Shakespeare, Swift, Dickens, Nietzsche, and Orwell.
Sounds like they're just typical Trump supporters......literal morons who survive on a diet of bogus right-wing conspiracy theories. They're much dumber than a 5th grader.
Liberals are supposed to be all about fairness, maybe Marky should delete a bunch of liberal posts and threads to make up for it./s Face it FB has been doing this for a LOOONG time. The only reason anyone is talking about it now is because someone was careless enough to sensor 2 peaceful conservative black women and by dong so, once again, outed liberal bias in US media sources of every sort and put it back in the spotlight.