{"id":15886,"date":"2016-06-03T17:30:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T22:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=15886"},"modified":"2016-06-03T17:30:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T22:30:21","slug":"crusader-corner-the-eus-new-online-speech-code-and-facebooks-crusade-against-islamophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/03\/crusader-corner-the-eus-new-online-speech-code-and-facebooks-crusade-against-islamophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Crusader Corner: The EU’s New “Online Speech Code” and Facebook’s Crusade Against “Islamophobia”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is mind blowing folks…I received this email from GateStone Institute, a non-profit Think Tank in New York that is beginning to be censored by the EU (and Facebook) for their fervent stand against Anti-Semitism, islam and terrorism. I am not posting this to help them raise money, I just wanted you guy to see the ANTICS of the EU and Facebook regarding so-called “Hate Speech” toward islam…give me a break!!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We are literally witnessing Orwell’s predictions come true right before our eyes. Next they will begin monitoring and putting restrictions on our thought life..-SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"islam\"<\/p>\n

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Dear Friend of Gatestone,<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the European Union (EU) announced a new online speech code to be enforced by four major tech companies, including Facebook and YouTube.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Facebook deleted the account of Ingrid Carlqvist, Gatestone’s Swedish expert.<\/p>\n

It’s no coincidence.<\/p>\n

Ingrid had posted our latest video to her Facebook feed — called “Sweden’s Migrant Rape Epidemic.” As you can see<\/a>, Ingrid calmly lays out the facts and statistics, all of which are meticulously researched.<\/p>\n

It’s a video version of this research paper<\/a> that Gatestone published last year. The video has gone viral — racking up more than 80,000 views in its first two days.<\/p>\n

But the EU is quite candid:<\/a> it is applying a political lens to their censorship, and it now has teams of political informants — with the Orwellian title of “trusted reporters” — to report any cases of “xenophobia” or “hate speech” to Facebook for immediate deletion.<\/p>\n

It’s political censorship. It’s outrageous. And it’s contrary to our western values of free speech, political freedom and the separation of mosque and state. But in another way, it’s a tremendous compliment — the world’s censors think that Gatestone Institute’s work is important enough and persuasive enough that it needs to be silenced.<\/i><\/p>\n

Well, not if we have anything to say about it. We raised such a ruckus about this attack that the Swedish media started reporting<\/a> on Facebook’s heavy-handed censorship. It backfired, and Facebook went into damage-control mode. They put Ingrid’s account back up — without any explanation or apology. Ironically, their censorship only gave Ingrid’s video more attention.<\/p>\n

Facebook and the EU have backed down — for today. But they’re deadly serious about stopping ideas they don’t like. They’ll be back.<\/p>\n

So what should we do?<\/i> I think there is only one thing we can do: continue to produce our well-researched reports, and to expand our online presence with even more videos!<\/u><\/i><\/p>\n

As you know, just last week we started releasing high-quality original videos, hosted by our Gatestone experts. Our first four videos have already been watched by more than 150,000 people!<\/p>\n

It’s a great way to make our research come alive — and as Ingrid’s viral video shows, to get our ideas noticed.<\/p>\n

So I want Gatestone’s talented experts to make more videos — a lot more! We need to win the battle of ideas. Can you help?<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Each video costs us approximately $500 to produce. But as Facebook’s attack on us shows, they’re worth every penny.<\/p>\n

Will you help us<\/a> do that?<\/p>\n

If you can sponsor one video, for $500, that would be a powerful statement of your support for our ideas — and your resistance to the Facebook\/EU censorship. But even a $50 gift would be so helpful — if just 100 Gatestone supporters chipped in $50, that’s enough to produce ten more powerful video presentations — any one of which could go viral too!<\/p>\n

Facebook and the European Union thought they could shut us up. I want to prove them wrong. Please click here<\/b><\/a>, to help us fight back. Do it for Ingrid!<\/p>\n

Yours truly,<\/p>\n

Nina Rosenwald
\nPresident and Founder, Gatestone Institute<\/p>\n

P.S. Click here<\/a> to see all of our YouTube videos so far. I want to do so many more, and with more of our experts. It’s a great way to spread our message, especially in the age of short, shareable videos. Please consider contributing<\/b><\/a> $50, $500 or whatever you can!<\/p>\n

P.P.S. We’ve never been censored this way before. I think it means we’re making a difference. What do you think?<\/p>\n

Stay Alert, Stay Armed, Keep the Faith and Stay Dangerous!<\/em><\/p>\n

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This is mind blowing folks…I received this email from GateStone Institute, a non-profit Think Tank in New York that is beginning to be censored by the EU (and Facebook) for their fervent stand against Anti-Semitism, islam and terrorism. I am not posting this to help them raise money, I just wanted you guy to see…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5067,4074,3958,4076,4377,2417,2413,2726,3176,5176,3553,2933,2990,5705,272,3712],"tags":[12017,4378,4254,3805,12018],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}