RANT: HEAR NO EVIL, SEE NO EVIL, SAY NO EVIL

 

 

FUN FACT: Just a short note on the censorship front: I was reading a post on the website, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME), a pro-Palestinian advocacy group, and it had a link to the messaging service Instagram (it’s like X). I thought I would check it out to see if there was additional information around pro-Palestinian censorship on university campuses that we've been hearing so much about recently. I had to set up an account with Instagram to access postings there and lost a few more brain cells deciding on yet another “username” and “password”. I read the post, but it was the same as on CJPME’s website. So, I closed Instagram and forgot about it until later in the day when I thought I would check to see if I’d written down my username and password correctly. I logged back in only to find I‘d been locked out of my account for breaching some “community standard” or other and had sixty days to appeal (what?) or my account would be deleted (boo-hoo!).

I CAN ONLY CONCLUDE—since I’d used Instagram once in connection with the above-mentioned pro-Palestine post—that my sanction had to do with accessing information and opinion critical of Israel, the Israel lobby, and the Zionist donor class here in Canada.

IT SHOULD be noted that Instagram is owned by Meta, the parent company of Facebook. And Meta's owner, the American billionaire Mark Zukerberg, has his nose so far up the Deep State’s and Israel-Firsters’ collective ass that his baby-blues have turned a turgid brown. In other words, Instagram discourages the free exchange of information and ideas that run contrary to the narrative they wish to shape, which, I can only conclude, is pro-Israel no matter what. And that, kemosabe, is called censorship—an important must-have for discerning fascists everywhere.*

 

 

Cheers, Jake. _____________________________________

 

* And no, I don't think someone is out to get me. It's just that I've ran afoul of some search algorithm on Instagram. Fuking AI's! Next stop, it's SkyNet, baby!