By John Stapleton
Freedom takes many forms.
Reclaim Australia
Living With The Consequences
In some ways, it felt like a first — an internet-native mass shooting, conceived and produced entirely within the irony-soaked discourse of modern extremism.
The attack was teased on Twitter, announced on the online message board 8chan and broadcast live on Facebook. The footage was then replayed endlessly on YouTube, Twitter and Reddit, as the platforms scrambled to take down the clips nearly as fast as new copies popped up to replace them. In a statement on Twitter, Facebook said it had “quickly removed both the shooter’s Facebook and Instagram accounts and the video,” and was taking down instances of praise or support for the shooting.
YouTube said it was “working vigilantly to remove any violent footage” of the attack. Reddit said in a statement that it was taking down “content containing links to the video stream”.
The internet is now the place where the seeds of extremism are planted and watered, where platform incentives guide creators toward the ideological poles, and where people with hateful and violent beliefs can find and feed off one another.
So the pattern continues. People become fluent in the culture of online extremism, they make and consume edgy memes, they cluster and harden. And once in a while, one of them erupts.
The only surprise is that anyone would still be surprised that social media produce this tragic abyss, for this is what social media are supposed to do, what they were designed to do: spread the images and messages that accelerate interest, without check, and absent concern for their consequences.
Fair Dinkum Mate
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Two minutes of silence is okay but the Islamic prayer will sound? it contains this line ‘there is no God but Allah’, well I disagree.
Jesus Christ is the only true God … this is not us!”the broadcasting of the Muslim call to prayer, which includes the lines “There is no God but Allah” to which he strongly disagreed.
I have been banned a dozen or more times amongst four profiles to run the page in the last two years…
This last week with the NZ incident had three bans on three of my profiles. All I did was share a Channel 7 post that had no violence but showed the killer’s face.
The whole “Authoritarian” manner that this terrorist attack has been handled is totally scary… We are being controlled with what we can say, and hear…
Milo Yiannopoulos being banned from touring amongst others is wrong. We have lost our freedom.
We are being silenced… Facebook has a “liberal” view and any that view politics differently are now not just getting a ban, they are being removed.
Rise Without Fear
Perhaps diversity isn’t our greatest strength.
Perhaps all it is doing is destabilising and dividing our society.
Perhaps that is all it was ever meant to do.
There is nothing more frightening than watching your country be sold out from under you.
For me it’s either success, prison or death. We have a culture in this country. The culture is an expression of the people. That culture is not Islam.
I’m fighting for my people.
Australia’s two most well known patriot and nationalist activists Blair Cottrell and Neil Erikson have been banned permanently from Twitter. This follows their earlier bans from Facebook. Both have now opened up Gab.ai accounts which is the most well known free speech social media alternative.
Cottrell was banned before the Christchurch mosque shooting last Thursday following two controversial tweets where he quoted Hilter favorably and another where he referenced cutting the strings from puppet politicians and hanging them.
Cottrell had his Facebook page deleted last year, this year following the St Kilda political meeting on African crime his father’s personal Facebook account was deleted since it was discovered Cottrell was using it to access the platform. Following that his Instagram account was deleted.
Avi Yemini
Banning my page is another example of Facebook’s political bias and is an attack on free speech. They are purging conservative pages. In this case, they are meddling in the Australian political system and therefore breaching a number of local laws.
I believe I was banned because I am exposing the Islamization of Australia and how it is negatively impacting the country. Many other conservatives around the world have also been banned for speaking out about Islam.
They claim it was for ‘hate speech’ but when pressed couldn’t give me a specific post that breached any of their terms and conditions.
And There So Many Others
We should not have to endure these barbarians in our once safe country thank God I have seen the best that Australia will ever be because the future can only get worse as they multiply.
Above all, I simply can’t trust the Australian government and our notoriously incompetent and illiberal political elite to shield me or anyone else from certain types of speech that some intolerant religionist may consider unacceptable in accordance with the radical tenets of his/her fundamentalist doctrine and resulting threats of legal actions.
Our political leaders have demonstrated they possess an authoritarian inclination and have no proper regard for the rule of law and the preservation of our most basic rights and freedoms.
As for myself, I sincerely fear for the future of our nation.
The Drift
Australia is now at a cross-roads; we are staring down the road of tyranny and enslavement. Our rights and freedoms are systematically being taken away with each passing day, and soon, the free country that we once knew and loved will be replaced by a creeping state of Orwellian qualities. We are in control of our destiny and we have the power to stop this. One can make the conscious decision to stand up and fight for what little freedom we have left, or sit back and wait for the domino effect to begin sequence.
Stand up, Australia — before it’s too late.
To whom I say, you are on our radar and you will not be able to incite the racial strife that you seek. The scrutiny and pressure that you are under will only intensify.