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The Facebook account, linked to https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com which promotes a free anarchist novel and shares relevant stories, was DISABLED by Facebook in May 2020. No explanations.
Now finally they invited it back, but WITHOUT THE 3500 FRIENDS. You can still tell the truth on Facebook.. So long as nobody hears you.
Now they have banned It’s Going Down and CrimethInc. (@crimethinc) · Twitter which are two of the very few brilliant sources of solidarity, imagination and hope for humanity.
Unless they are reinstated, WITH their followers we at TheFreeOnline and surely thousands more, will leave Farcebook forever
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by It’s Going Down and CrimethInc
On August 19, 2020 Facebook deleted a variety of far-Right militia and Qanon accounts along with anarchist and antifascist pages, including It’s Going Down and CrimethInc. The following is a joint statement in response.
Facebook has taken down multiple Facebook pages they believe to be connected with crimethinc.com and itsgoingdown.org, among other anarchist and anti-fascist publishing projects, officially on the pretext that they “support violence.” This has nothing to do with stopping violence and everything to do with cracking down on social movements and everyday people getting organized in their communities.
Facebook has always promoted itself as seeking to assist people in creating networks to meet their needs. Facebook representatives proudly touted their role in the Egyptian uprising. Their decision to ban social movement organizations shows that they are eager to play a role in ensuring that the only forms of activism that…
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