Posted on 02/13/2017 4:46:20 PM PST by markomalley
Comedian Eddie Griffin encouraged audience members to assassinate President Trump during a standup comedy routine in Dallas, Texas on Friday, but Facebook doesn’t want you to know that.
Ben Ferguson, a radio show host who attended the show at the American Airlines Center, told The Federalist that Griffin made references to late President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, saying: “Ya’ll took out one president, you need to take out another.”
“Ya’ll need to put Trump into a convertible and take him out, or better yet, the driver should take him out,” he continued.
Ferguson streamed portions of the show via Facebook Live, but the social network removed the video containing Griffin’s remarks within 24 hours. When Ferguson attempted to access his Facebook account on his phone the next morning, he had been signed out. When he logged back into his account on his desktop, there was a notice from Facebook that the video violated their community standards.
Ferguson believes Facebook’s decision to remove the video, which had at least 100,000 views, is censorship.
“It’s protecting the Left when they’re doing something extreme,” he said.
He says he’s not the only one whose videos the social network selectively deleted. Others reportedly complained on Twitter that Facebook had purged their videos of Griffin’s disturbing monologue.
Facebook has a history of biased treatment of conservative media and topics that lean towards a conservative view of the world. Last year, a group of employees who managed the social network’s “trending topics” side bar revealed they would routinely suppress conservative news or topics of interest to conservatives. Facebook subsequently eliminated the trending topics team after a storm of criticism following that revelation.
The most frustrating part for Ferguson is that because he recorded the video via Facebook Live, he has no hard copy of Griffin’s rant saved. Two of Ferguson’s other videos of the comedy show remain on his Facebook page.
ML/NJ
Eddie Griffin is No Comedian.
...Why isn’t it sedition....
I can’t find any convictions for Sedition in the USA since the Sedition Act of 1918. Are there any?
Hope the Secret Service pays him a visit — and puts him in prison. What a piece of filth. And in Dallas? Yeah, sure that went over well. Again, what a piece of filth.
anyone advocating a coup or assassination should get a visit from the secret service.
The liberals elites are deliberately trying to inspire people to kill trump, they shouldn’t be allowed to get away with that.
this is what they accused us of doing with gabby giffords, but THEY really are trying to inspire would be assassins.
It is not prosecuted under sedition because threatening the President is a separate and more easily proven felony. And a nasty one. People have been convicted and have been put away for a LONG time for doing so — in fact for threatening Obama (i.e., this is not old law, it’s active law). Just my understanding, of course.
He used to be in Undercover Brother. I dont understand why so many actors have elected to ruin their careers by opening their mouths. Another unfortunate casualty.
Careericide?
First Amendment of the United States Constitution: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
There is no threat in any of the statements in the article. Please refer to Brandenburg v. Ohio.
But it was black aliens.
Are you sure that’s not Photoshopped? Such a tiny little face stuck on that big old head.
I’m starting to get very pissed off. I’m going to go take a FR timeout since there’s nothing but propaganda and censorship in the news today.
I’m glad FB took it down. It is against their ‘no violence’ policy and perhaps people complained. They still don’t do enough for the random comments that go on tho.
Btt
Then escorted to Gitmo or some covert prison for seditionists and other non desirable political criminals.
Let them stay there until some President in the future decides they've stayed locked away long enough which may never happen.
ML/NJ
You are flat out wrong. I strongly encourage you to review Brandenburg v. Ohio. Mere advocacy of violence is absolutely protected speech. I encourage you to learn more about the First Amendment so that you are better able to defend it.
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