{"id":40960,"date":"2021-01-09T12:06:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T17:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40960"},"modified":"2021-01-09T12:06:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T17:06:11","slug":"banishing-political-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40960","title":{"rendered":"Banishing Political Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have all seen the news that President Trump has been banned from Twitter and Facebook. There are some people who see that as justified, but how many people have to be banned before those people become concerned?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2021\/01\/facebook-purges-walkaway-movement-page-thousands-of-testimonials-gone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legal Insurrection<\/a> posted an article today about Facebook banning the &#8220;Walk Away Movement&#8221; page. The page consisted of personal testimonies of people who have left the Democrat party discussing their reasons for leaving.<\/p>\n<p>The article quotes a Washington Examiner article:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cFACEBOOK has removed the #WalkAway Campaign and has BANNED ME and EVERY MEMBER of my team!!!\u201d Straka, founder of the #WalkAway movement, tweeted Friday morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cOver half a million people in #WalkAway with hundreds of thousands of testimonial videos and stories is GONE,\u201d he added. \u201cFacebook has banned everything related to #WalkAway.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Straka also included screenshots of messages from Facebook, including one that said the page was \u201cremoved for violating terms of use.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Straka confirmed to the Washington Examiner that his Facebook group, the business page for the nonprofit group, and his personal account were all shut down Friday morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>He added that people merely associated with the page were also removed from Facebook.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cEvery volunteer, every paid employee, banned,\u201d Straka said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article at Legal Insurrection notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>How can this be perceived as anything other than political?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As long as we have people in Congress that take large donations from big tech, no action will be taken to hold Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc., accountable. It is unfortunate that somehow the Republicans didn&#8217;t get to that when they held the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have all seen the news that President Trump has been banned from Twitter and Facebook. There are some people who see that as justified, but how many people have to be banned before those people become concerned? Legal Insurrection &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40960\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11077,1022,3867,13325],"class_list":["post-40960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-censorship","tag-facebook","tag-legal-insurrection","tag-walk-away-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40961,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40960\/revisions\/40961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}