{"id":14292,"date":"2020-01-29T19:38:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T23:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=14292"},"modified":"2020-01-29T19:40:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T23:40:14","slug":"freeing-the-web-from-big-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/freeing-the-web-from-big-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeing the Web From Big Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"570\" height=\"301\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-29-Freeing-the-Web-From-Big-Tech.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-29-Freeing-the-Web-From-Big-Tech.png 570w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-29-Freeing-the-Web-From-Big-Tech-300x158.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The New American<\/strong>, by  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/print-magazine\/itemlist\/user\/15241-cmitchellshaw\">C. Mitchell Shaw<\/a> &#8212; January 20, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>From the print edition of<\/em> The New American:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Today\u2019s Web is far different from the electronic public  square it was originally created to be. Yet there is realistic hope the  Web can be liberated from the stifling restraints of Big Tech and Big  Government.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Last summer, Facebook slapped this magazine\u2019s parent organization,  The John Birch Society, with a \u201chate speech\u201d violation and demonetized  the organization\u2019s Facebook page for 30 days. The reason: Our July 8,  2019 print magazine cover, which included a real photograph of  immigrants illegally crossing a border fence. That cover article was  headlined \u201cImmigrant Invasion\u201d and a caption for that photo inside the  magazine included the word \u201cdiseases.\u201d Disregarding the accuracy of the  photo, the headline, and the caption, Facebook deemed the post \u201chate  speech.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>As a result of the public backlash following this magazine publishing an  article about that \u201chate speech\u201d violation, Facebook backed down. But  the fact remains that such actions by Facebook and other social-media  giants are not \u201cisolated incidents\u201d \u2014 they are par for the course. And  while this magazine had the clout to bring pressure to bear on Facebook,  individual users who find their posts removed for non-existent  violations don\u2019t have that clout. They just have to deal with it. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image, links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/print-magazine\/item\/34519-freeing-the-web-from-big-tech\">https:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/print-magazine\/item\/34519-freeing-the-web-from-big-tech<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New American, by C. Mitchell Shaw &#8212; January 20, 2020 Excerpt: From the print edition of The New American: Today\u2019s Web is far different from the electronic public square it was originally created to be. Yet there is realistic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/freeing-the-web-from-big-tech\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14295,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14292\/revisions\/14295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}