Fascistbook Censorship Strikes Again

More assaults from the evil social media empire:

Here is something you can bank on: If you meet these two conditions, you can be certain of this outcome: One, if you are on Facebook, and two, if you are an outspoken conservative and Christian, somewhere along the line there will be a clash. You will find yourself in FB jail for days, weeks or months. And you may well find yourself permanently dumped from their site.

I know all about this, since I have been through it all. And now it seems I am well and truly history as far as FB is concerned. I have been given the boot and I am now seen as their permanent enemy, never to be platformed again. Before recounting my latest and final run in with them, let me mention why I have stayed there for so long.

The sort of ministry I am involved in, especially so in more recent years, is an internet-based ministry. In just over a month CultureWatch will be 20 years old. I seek to pen a new piece or two daily, and then I use various social media platforms, not just to share those articles, but to engage in all sorts of things, from proclaiming the gospel to engaging in the culture wars.

As I keep saying, truth is important, and we must do all we can to get it out far and wide. And using some of the modern means of doing this is a good way to proceed. Yes, you can use social media to post your cat pictures or tell us what you had for breakfast, but please use it for Christ and the Kingdom as well.

Thus I have been on most of the social media platforms: Gab, Telegram, Minds, MeWe, Twitter (now X), Substack, Parlor and Rumble. But by far, the one that I have had the most friends and interactions with was Facebook. But our relationship, which has never been very pretty, is now kaput.

In addition to all the shorter prison sentences they imposed on me, they booted me off 5 years ago and closed my account. Years of material that I posted there was lost in an instant, and I lost over 4000 friends as well. At the time I said this in part about my banishment:

If you know anything about Communism and Nazism, you will know that individuals, families and even entire groups of people simply vanished. They were erased. They were obliterated – literally and figuratively. They were not only snatched away from their own homes in the middle of the night by the authorities, but everything about them would also often be eradicated as well.

 

Their history, their memory, their work, their output: they were simply airbrushed out of history. Politically incorrect ideas – and those who held them – were wiped out overnight. . . . It seems I have just been obliterated from Fascistbook. Tyranny did not end with the end of the Cold War. It continues in the West, especially with the Tech Giants. I am the latest victim of the biggest and baddest: Facebook.

 

As we all know by now, Facebook is a far-left thought-control group. It cannot stand truth, and only leftist groupthink is allowed. Anyone who dares to offer a contrary point of view will very quickly find themselves being dealt with by the FB apparatchiks. https://billmuehlenberg.com/2021/05/27/erased/

It was during this time that I started getting on some of those other platforms. Some months after that first exile, I got back on again with a new account and a somewhat different name. That seemed to more or less go OK for some years, but they booted me off again last night, and I lost all my posts, friends and contacts once again.

No reason at all was given for this – no mention of my crimes and misdemeanours, no word of my sins that must be atoned for – no nothing. I suspect one of my FB “friends” did not like my posts and reported me. And I am pretty sure my first ejection from FB was also due to some FBer. Hmm, who needs friends like these, especially if they claim to be Christians!

So with the help of a friend, I just tried to get back on this morning with a new third account. I would have to start all over from scratch, and rebuild my page. However, that only lasted for about 30 minutes. Then they dumped me again. So I am beginning to get the message: they hate my very presence there. Well, the feeling is mutual.

Last night in prayer I told God that if he wanted me to continue CultureWatch I certainly will, but losing FB means a major part of my ministry outreach has disappeared. My computer guy said that the best bet is to be on X. My first computer guy had actually put me on there when CultureWatch began.

He arranged things so that every time I penned a new piece, it would automatically appear on my page there. So I have been on there for years, but I never really used it. I just looked, and it seems I have around 1650 followers there, but I have never followed anyone! Oops. So now I am busily rectifying that by following everyone I might know and want to connect or reconnect with.

Please help

With all this by way of background, can I ask you to do me three favours?

One. If you are on FB and were mutual friends with me, can you tell your contacts that I am now gone forever from FB? And tell folks that I am sorry to have lost them, but this is beyond my control. Please try to stay in touch with me in other ways.

Two. Will you please join with me on X? You can use this to find me: https://x.com/BillMuehlenberg
I am still trying to figure out how X works, but I think if you just press the ‘follow’ button, that is all you need to do.

And then I will follow you as well. The truth is, Elon Musk (who owns X) is much more open to free speech than Zuckerberg ever was. So please meet me there.

Three. Please pray. At root this really is a case of spiritual warfare. The secular leftists at FB do not want me and others to share Christian conservative truth, so the enemy is trying to silence me big time – at least at FB certainly.  And remember that even my CultureWatch website is not immune from satanic attack, and it might be permanently pulled down one day as well.

Many thanks for your help and support and prayers.

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