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Posted on 10/14/2018 6:16:58 PM PDT by Theo
Mark Zuckerberg must need money because he just robbed a triple-amputee Iraq War vet blind.
Brian Kolfage joined the Air Force just before 3000 Americans were killed in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks that also destroyed the Twin Towers in New York City. He wanted to serve. He wanted to keep what had happened to thousands of his fellow Americans from happening again. It was his duty, he believed.
During Brian's second tour in the Middle East, he volunteered for a dangerous mission in Iraq.
On September 11th, 2004, exactly 3 years to the day since the 9/11/01 attacks, a 107 mm rocket landed feet from Airman Kolfage. Instantly, he lost both of his legs just below the hip and his right hand.
Kolfage wasn't expected to survive, let alone walk again, but he did.
After almost a year recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Kolfage walked out of the facility.
Airman Kolfage continued overcoming the odds by going back to work for the Air Force as a base security manager. He also served on Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford’s Veterans Advisory Committee. Brian went on to enroll at the University of Arizona’s School of Architecture. He learned to draw with his left hand as his dominant right was gone. Kolfage graduated from university and was also awarded the prestigious Pat Tillman Scholar award.
In 2014 Brian was bestowed the George C. Lang Award for Courage, for his fearlessness and also his selfless actions taking care of other wounded veterans.
Today, Brian makes trips to Walter Reed Medical Center and travels the country motivating veterans & others.
In the midst of all this, Senior Airman Kolfage got married & has two wonderful kids.
Even with all of that, Kolfage wasn't done. He became interested in news publishing and began managing pages on Facebook for news websites. He also co-founded a coffee company, Military Grade Coffee, which donates 10% of all profits back to veteran organizations.
You might not have known it, but Airman Kolfage ran the Right Wing News Facebook page and had been involved with the brand for several years among starting others. That is, until a few days ago when Facebook decided they didn't agree with Brian's conservative views. The page had 3.6 million fans, and Brian was a major factor behind its new growth and revitalization.
Over the years, Kolfage invested $315,000 to grow brands on Facebook. Facebook requested admins of pages to invest tons of money to grow and reach larger audiences for the brands he managed. Zuckerberg had no problem taking Brian's money. But now Zuckerberg & Facebook decided they couldn't allow the popular conservative page to get in the way of the 2018 mid term elections after it became a pivotal part of President Trumps 2016 upset to Hillary Clinton. Facebook headed up by Zuckerberg used a well planned opportunity to take out actual bad pages and lumped in Airman Kolfage's conservative network.
They robbed him blind, they did him dirty. They took $315,000 from his company rolled it up and laughed at his sacrifice. This was purely political, they attacked his personally. But Facebook made one fatal flaw, they underestimated the power of a triple amputee veteran. The underestimated the huge PR mess they are about to be slapped with when trump has Airman Kolfage in his oval office in front of the media, they underestimated the will power of veteran who lost so much.
Airman Kolfage wrote that because of Facebook's actions:
"My income as a father and husband is threatened.
This isn’t the right to free speech I gave my legs and arm to defend. Three limbs wasn’t enough for some … now my livelihood is gone with it.
It is true: I have been managing the Right Wing News Facebook page, and have been involved with the brand for many years.
And just today, Facebook took down our Facebook page, cutting off all contact we had with the millions of people who signed up to follow us, the millions of people who liked what we were sharing online.
I took over managing the page when John Hawkins decided to step aside to pursue other endeavors. John and I have a great relationship and I was honored to have the torch passed down to me. We had a coveted, verified blue check mark 3.5 Million fans, and I invested over $300,000 in ads at Facebook’s own request, nearly begging us to spend spend spend just to reach our fans … whom they kept making more difficult to reach with every passing year.
Never once did Facebook come to us to say there was any issue with Right Wing News or our other pages. Never. But they sure loved taking our money.
We did run multiple Facebook pages; Facebook allows businesses to have more than one page, and we did own them and had them for years. We were not “spamming,” we were not using fake accounts, we were not doing anything “wrong” … except we supported President Trump, and apparently that’s not allowed.
Facebook also deleted my other business page. I own a coffee company called Military Grade Coffee company. We don’t post politics, we sell coffee and support veteran charities. Facebook is maliciously attacking my way of life because of my beliefs, and they don’t care.
What Facebook has done is illegal. It’s a malicious coordinated attacked on everything I fought for and everything generations of Americans fought for. And this is exactly why a Facebook Engineer making 6 figures a year walked out and quit his job today, over the assault on conservative beliefs within his former company.
The New York Times even stated that Facebook made this calculated move to silence thousands of voices (and millions of forwarded messages) because of the upcoming midterm elections."
I've known Brian for years and had the pleasure of working with him on several projects. As the editor of Right Wing News, I saw how hard he worked to manage the Facebook page, and to ensure it grew in popularity. He is a tireless worker, and extremely proud of what he has accomplished for others on social media. And now Zuckerberg & his company, Facebook, have robbed him of it & his investments. I mean, they even took down his coffee company page. That's some serious hatred for the man right there. Facebook is literally stripping him of his means to provide for his family. Didn't he give enough for his country, not to mention, to Facebook? He overcame odds most in this world will never experience, only to be ripped off by Zuckerberg????
That's a GD shame.
DON'T STOP SHARING THIS UNTIL BRIAN GETS JUSTICE!
Follow Brian on his personal verified page for updates on what happens next.
Brian Kolfage alive day from Brian on Vimeo.
Well, there IS that aspect of it. You pays your money and you takes your chances gambling with Socialists.
Get a Lawyer.
social media that allows political speech and has more than 500,000 members should provide freedom of speech.
youtube Twitter google FB all monopolies
Read the Whole stinking thing,
This Vet deserves to recoup
But I’d dump Facebook ASAP!
If Possible.
I’ve got to say if Facebook is the he way I find you then forget it. I don’t tweet or post crap to Facebook. There has to be a way to do what Brian does without those left wing anal orfices. He deserves better than that azzhats Zuckershitz.
Exactly.
Just making sure we understand:
He paid FB $315,000 to advertise his FB pages?
Then FB deleted those pages for political reasons?
And FB even deleted his non-political page selling coffee?
Is that correct? There has to be a lawsuit in there somewhere.
A friend and I seriously considered pimping a business on FB. Lots of hoops to jump through and they want a LOT of $ to promote you...if they FEEL like it on any given day.
We went elsewhere.
Give the man back the money you stole, Zuckerburg.
They are not. As I pointed out, there are alternatives to Facebook available. Even MySpace is still around. Yahoo GeoCities and Angelfire before Facebook. Remember Usenet?
And Facebook at its core is just a website.
overdue for regulation
Which will be used to shut down conservative blogs and sites if the Left regains power. Conservatives don't support gov't regulation.
and it is also an entity which deleted all pro-Republican pages less than 30 days before an election: a Federal elections violation (illegal contribution to the Democrats).
But they are not classified as a media entity or something that regulated by both FCC and IRS laws though. It'll be pretty hard to make a case against them.
Obama's DOJ would put 100 lawyers to war against a conservative Facebook doing the same
And you would be rightfully screaming at the top of your lungs defending them if such a thing happened.
I will definitely check out MeWe - the promo video looks good.
Stole his business idea
Stole all the shares from his BEST friend
Secretly sold users’ data
Stated in a confidential email to a friend that people who trust him are "dumb-f*cks".
Married in the community proprety state of California, the very day AFTER he took Facebook public.
Requested nude photos of users to “protect them against the risk of revenge porn”.
Secretly tried to get hospitals to release vast stores of patient data “so I can help cure diseases”.
Initially pursued total rights ownership of images uploaded to FB; if you'd been photoed as a happy youth with, say, a can of Coors then later got really famous, Zuck could be paid by Coors for zero work and YOUR old photo in a new ad while you, the centerpiece of the ad, would get NOTHING. Struck down after lengthy legal battles.
De-platformed numerous Conservatives because he didn't agree with their views, couldn't define hate-speech when asked by Congress.
Secretly requested banks give him his users' financial data, including transactions, so “my users can check their balances on my site."
Digitally permitted his housing advertisers to filter out customers whose search histories were strongly associated with terms like "handicapped" , "mobility scooter" and "guidedog".
Admonished that people "build bridges instead of walls", all while building walls around his Palo Alto homes and around the huge Kauai Estate he bought and then threw the Hawaiians off of.
Established a "trustworthiness index" for ALL his facebook users while disclosing it to none of them.
Altered FB algorithms to flag content from conservative publications as spam.
Revered Augustus Caesar, leader of Rome who assured 200 years of peace via harsh rule, possibly arranging the execution of his own grandson. On a wedding anniversary trip to Rome, Zuck gushed so effusively over sculptures and monuments dedicated to Augustus that his wife joked that three people, not two, were on their trip.
For years, Zuck traditionally closed high-level Facebook executive meetings by shouting, "DOMINATION..!", perhaps half-jokingly.
Proposed installation in the homes of FB users special Facebook cameras that would follow and monitor users around as they went about their private lives inside their homes. But the cameras, Zuckerberg assured, would come with privacy settings which Facebook would, like, totally respect, or something.
Asked for user telephone numbers for 2 factor authentication but within weeks used that data for marketing purposes. If users chose to share their entire contact list, Facebook also shared that data with advertisers, even phone numbers of people who NEVER had a facebook account! After the Cambridge Analytica scandal FB pleged to reinvigorate user privacy but neither of these practices has stopped.
In the runup to the 2018 midterm elections, FB removed over 800 conservative political pages and accounts in a clamp down on what the social media company arbitrarily termed, “inauthentic behavior”. This move affected an estimated 66 million FB users, most of them Conservative.
First big mistake made here was having anything to do with FB.
BTW, You’re not in charge of who posts what here. Go start your own forum if you want to gate keep and police threads. Sorry, that’s just the way we roll at FR. If you don’t like that, there’s a door.
True. BUT... will Facebook give him back the MONEY he already invested ?
Do you have an extra $300,000 to give him to start up on an alternative site ?
What would you do if you purchased an item on EBAY, and EBAY refused to deliver said product and kept your money ?
Get this...I saw a link to this today, was posted before.
Google and MasterCard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales [at physical stores]
source:
FR link September 2:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3684436/posts
I am now on MeWe and am weening off of FaceBook. I’ll have to try his coffee
I dropped Facebook and Google the same day!!!!
I completely agree with you on this point. FB should refund him the money, and this gentleman should use it to start-up his own business or social media site on the web.
Facebook's ubiquity makes them indecipherable from any television network, except far more powerful. No terrestrial or cable network has a reach of 2.4 BILLION people (214 million in the U.S. alone)
Hard to believe people pay that much!
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