Yesterday, I defended Facebook when COO Sheryl Sandberg said that users who wished to entirely stop the social media platform from making money from their personal data would have to pay for the privilege, if the option were to be made available.  I still stand by that support.  However, today I learned that Facebook has censored Diamond and Silk, two sisters from North Carolina, social media stars, ardent supporters of President Trump, and said “The Policy team has came to the conclusion that your content and your brand has been determined unsafe to the community.”

Are you kidding me?  Censorship because someone in the Facebook company doesn’t like Diamond and Silk and their conservative opinions!?!  Really?  Facebook has seen live postings of shootings, murder, child abuse, and torture.  There have been countless instances of bullying and hate rants against police and military.  Facebook has been used to lure unsuspecting children and women into situations best not described. And yet, Diamond and Silk are determined to be unsafe by you.

We have a first amendment in this country which states:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

On Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook’s mission is to “give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together…”  Okay Mark–so do you believe that the world can only be brought closer together without debate, without  diversity of opinion?  Must we all believe the same as you?  You may be listed by Forbes as one of the world’s most powerful people but to me, you are a small, small man.  You need to learn that everybody is entitled to a viewpoint or opinion and we should respect that right even if we don’t necessarily agree with it.