Posted on 09/06/2020 10:14:30 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Facebook Inc on Friday removed the pages of U.S. right-wing group Patriot Prayer and its founder Joey Gibson, a company spokesman told Reuters.
Patriot Prayer has hosted dozens of pro-gun, pro-Trump rallies and attendees have repeatedly clashed with left-wing groups around Portland, Oregon, where one group supporter was killed this week.
Facebook took down the pages as part of efforts to remove "violent social militias" from its social networks, spokesman Andy Stone said.
The company updated its policies last month to ban groups that demonstrate significant risks to public safety.
Its dangerous organizations policy now includes groups that celebrate violent acts or suggest they will use weapons, even if they are not directly organizing violence.
In a statement posted on Patriot Prayer’s website, Gibson accused Facebook of a double standard.
“Antifa groups murdered my friend while he was walking home, and instead of the multibillion dollar company banning Portland Antifa pages they ban Patriot Prayer, Joey Gibson and several other grandmas that are admins,” he wrote.
Antifa is a largely unstructured, far-left movement whose followers broadly aim to confront those they view as authoritarian or racist.
Gibson, who espouses non-violence but is accused by anti-fascist groups of provoking confrontations, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
After the shooting he cautioned supporters not to seek revenge, but rather "push back politically, spiritually."
As of earlier this week, the Patriot Prayer page had nearly 45,000 followers on Facebook. It was created in 2017.
Facebook last week removed content associated with the Kenosha Guard, a group which had posted a "call to arms" in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The company acted the day after two people were shot and killed at protests in the city.
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As of earlier this week, the Patriot Prayer page had nearly 45,000 followers on Facebook.
Gibson accused Facebook of a double standard.
“Antifa groups murdered my friend while he was walking home, and instead of the multibillion dollar company banning Portland Antifa pages they ban Patriot Prayer.
Well I am sure that they will be ditching BLM and Antifa very soon as well, since they have caused hundreds of millions of dollars of damage to businesses and communities. Surely Facebook would not ban a group that likely has caused no damage and harmed no one and not ban the groups actually responsible day after day for violent and destructive riots. /S
Victim shaming.
Instead of a woman wearing a short skirt it’s a guy in a MAGA hat...he had it coming.
In light of the fact that Facebook is a symptom of everything liberal and everything that’s wrong with civilization, can we not find a Conservative alternative?
Unstructured my @$$.
l8r
Fake book is for women. Only
Learn that men
They can chat with and spy on eachother
And antifa?
This shouldn’t be a surprise. It’s pretty obvious Facebook and Twitter and YouTube will go on a conservative banking spree. They’re Leftists. They control social media. They’re going to eliminate conservative content. It makes perfect sense to them.
Joey needs to build his own website.
It aint that hard.
Guy named Rbinson did it like 24 years ago, still going.
Confront authoritarians? Think like us or we’ll destroy you isn’t authoritarian?
Facebook is the platform for enemies of the U.S. Islamists, radical socialists, fascists and Commies are exempt from scrutiny, but if you treasure your U.S. Constitution and Free Market Capitalism, beware of big brother facebook! You will be punished.
I am currently serving a seven day sentence in Facebook jail for upsetting and triggering an antifa/blm snowflake. I regret nothing.
If it weren’t for a couple of close school friends and a couple of members of my family, I would just delete my account.
I’m stepping back from Facebook for the forseeable future. I can’t resist commenting on or sharing political things and would like to have some friends left!
Surely they expected this. A terrorist murdered one of their members. They must have known this would be next.
If they "unfriend" you over a few Facebook comments, they were never "friends" in the first place. Eff'em.
Phuque Zuckerberg and Facebook and their anti-Trump, anti-American positions.
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