Facebook Slaps Permanent Ban on Veteran Owned Clothing Company Worth Millions + EXCLUSIVE: Twitter CENSORS Hilarious ‘Weekend at Biden’s’ Meme (Creator Speaks Out) – CONGRESSIONAL ‘SMACK-DOWN’, BE DAMNED
THINK AMERICANA | TROY MULLENS | October 30, 2020
Earlier this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai all testified before Congress regarding their continued censorship of conservatives and conservative content.
They’ve been called out on it multiple times and all have testified before Congress multiple times, yet it continues to this day. Even James O’Keefe at Project Veritas has video of Facebook and Google employees talking about how they censor conservatives and Trump supporters especially.
These companies are out of control and something needs to be done in order to get them to stop with the silencing of Conservatives.
Just this months, the popular Facebook page American AF was shut down by Facebook permanently.
American AF, if you’re unaware is a clothing company that is run by CEO Shawn Wylde who is a former Marine.
The Facebook page has been around since 2015 and is for the clothing company and sells pro-Trump apparel such as shirts, hats, shorts, flags, and much more.
Facebook did not respond to American Military News’ request for comment before the time of publishing.
American AF amassed $15 million in annual sales in 2019 and expects to reach $10 million in 2020. Its advertising is also significant, with $4.3 million spent on Facebook ads in 2020 alone. The company has spent more than $16.6 million in Facebook advertising over the past five years. A study by New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering listed American AF as Facebook’s third-highest political advertiser even though only some of its apparel is politically-themed.
Wylde said the decision has been devastating. “It kills our business. … It’s akin to shuttering an entire brick and mortar business.”
Wylde’s lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, told American Military News that Facebook’s decision is a “classic case of breach of contract.”
I know how much a business can suffer when they get a Facebook page removed because it also removed your ability to run ads on the platform.
They’ve created a new page and it’s nowhere near what it was yet, but also, since they run what Facebook considers political ads, they must jump through the hoops to get approved to run them, so they are and have been missing out on a lot of income.
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EXCLUSIVE: Twitter censors hilarious ‘Weekend at Biden’s’ meme, creator speaks out
After its success on Twitter and YouTube, Ward said that the video was curbed, and soon after he received messages from viewers who said that they were unable to retweet the video.
The original YouTube channel which uploaded the video is also omitted from Google’s search results. Searching “Weekend at Biden’s” will bring users to a re-uploaded video not associated with the “No to Joe PAC” YouTube channel.
Ward believes that Twitter is intentionally capping videos that make Biden and his camp look bad, while promoting content that hurts the Republican Party.
“It got marked as sensitive content, meanwhile, there was content promoted by Twitter showing Rudy Giuliani tucking his shirt in after taking a microphone out,” said Ward. “I admire Sacha Baron Cohen, but I think he has become more of an operative used to take down figures on a certain side of the aisle.”
People were saying that they couldn’t share it, YouTube wouldn’t put it in their results. It got marked as sensitive content, meanwhile, content promoted by Twitter where Rudy Giuliani was putting a mic down his pants [in the Borat prank.]
Ward spoke of the difficulty of casting the video, as actors were afraid that even appearing in a video that could be perceived as anti-Biden of pro-Trump would scare off potential cast.
“This was actually hard to get made. Actors, people like that, telling me, ‘I like it and think its funny, but I can’t risk my career. I can’t go out and speak against Biden or appear to support the other side, and I might never work again.’ People said it was too risky for them.”
Ward urged those on all sides of the political spectrum to take a moment and laugh at things that are supposed to be comedic.
“Humor is a healing thing, and shining light on things that we’re not allowed to talk about is pretty healthy. I hope content like this can help bring us back together. I know people on both sides have been laughing at this. and to see that it gets censored.”
