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As a result our account has been throttled, with our content seemigly restricted and excluded from search results.
While Twitter is by far the best social media site with the most freedom, it is far from perfect, and this missive against us is a swift kick in the head.
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Nine months after suspending the Christian Post from Twitter for sharing “hateful conduct,” the social media giant, under new management, has overturned the previous ban and reinstated their account.
The Christian post was suspended in March 2022 for sharing this tweet, where they rightly called Rachel Levine, the transgender U.S. assistant secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a “man.”
At the time of the suspension, they explained:
In an alert emailed to CP on Sunday, the social media giant notified the Christian news publication that the tweet violated its policy against what it deems as “hateful conduct” by stating a biological fact and has “temporarily limited some” features of the account, including the ability to post new articles.
Other limitations include being unable to like, follow or retweet posts. Twitter also told CP that the restrictions could be lifted 12 hours after deleting the tweet about Levine…
In a series of tweets today, the Post was ebullient about their return, explaining why they chose to stay off Twitter rather than cow to their ultimatum and allowed to remain on this whole time.
Three weeks ago, YouTube permanently banned Pastor Greg Locke’s church channel for “severe or repeated violations of our Community Guidelines.” Now, they’ve finished the job and deleted his personal page, taking 800 videos and 105,000 subscribers with it, along with the ability to live stream their church service.
Now, he writes on Facebook, the last of the big three social media he has left after being banned from Twitter last year:
Many of you know that YouTube removed our church channel a few weeks ago. It was unfortunate and no real reason was given. Well today YouTube completely removed my personal Pastor Greg Locke page. There was no message, no warning and no explanation. They simply bowed to the wishes of countless haters reporting the page. I decided against doing a video about it for now. Of course it’s a bit discouraging. They literally deleted 800 videos, 105,000 subscribers and banned our church Live stream. Make no mistake…GOD WILL GET GLORY AND DO SOMETHING AMAZING!! I will not be bullied into silence. This is a bump in the road and only further proof of the agenda that we are up against. Remember, TRUTH ALWAYS HAS A PLATFORM. Just gonna sip my coffee, pray for wisdom and simply watch the Lord move on our behalf. God is good! Let’s keep mashing the gas for the Kingdom.
As much as we believe Locke is disqualified from the pastoral ministry, we do not rejoice over this development, as it’s only a matter of time before we’re taken down as well.
A year after Pastor Greg Locke of Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, TN was permanently banned from Twitter, YouTube has followed suite and likewise permanently banned his church’s channel for “severe or repeated violations of our Community Guidelines.” Neither Locke or YouTube specified what those violations were.
In a post shared on Facebook, the last bastion where Locke is free to speak his mind, he shared the news:
Despite having his church’s channel being banned, Locke’s reported personal channel seems intact, with over 100,000 subscribers, and several similar channels which post his content remain unscathed.
The Christian anti-porn accountability sites Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You have been banned from the Google Play Store because they work too well.
In an article posted to their website, Accountable2You reveals that the whole brouhaha began after WIRED published a piece titled The Ungodly Surveillance of Anti-Porn ‘Shameware’ Apps, which focused on “individuals who view accountability apps as surveillance software for policing sinful behavior,” including their own.
Their programs received complaints after some users “felt forced to share their device activity with leadership in their church.” WIRED then reached out to Google with their “‘findings and the Tech Giant subsequently removed their app from the Playstore, along with Covenant Eyes, another company working in the same space. Accountable2You elaborates:
According to the official email we received, Google suspended the Accountable2You app for a violation of the Play Store’s malware policy. The email is unclear about how our app violated this policy, but it seems most likely that the section on “Stalkerware” in Google’s malware policy is where they chose to take issue with our app.
Stalkerware, also known as spouseware, is when a third party uses an app to monitor a user’s data, usually without their knowledge or consent. Basically, the user of the device is forced to share their data with a third party. If you’re thinking of spyware, then you’re correct!
Accountable2You does not support, endorse, or allow this use of our service as defined in our terms and conditions.
Unlike stalkerware, an accountability app like Accountable2You is designed for a device user to willfully share—or not share—their usage data with a third party to help achieve the goals they have for their device.
Undeterred, Accountable2You stands firm in their mission, sharing that “we believe pornography is a grievous sin against a holy God and want to help people live in freedom from its destructive power” and that “lasting freedom is possible in Christ.” CEO Ben Lawrence concludes by asserting:
Despite this attack, we will continue to build software that makes transparency easy for the device owner. We will continue to call out sin and promote educational resources that will edify the body of Christ.
Lila Rose, the founder of the pro-life group Live Action made famous for undercover videos of abuse and criminal activity at abortion clinics, announced on Twitter that her personal account has been banned from TikTok, as well as their company account has been banned from advertising.
BREAKING:
My account (@lilaroselife) has been BANNED from @tiktok_us and @liveaction has been BANNED from advertising.
This extreme political bias by Tiktok is a blatant double standard and places the lives of children in danger.
She points out that the ads were disallowed because they were “driven by partisan political motives” while the social media giant has no problem allowing ads for pro-murder megacorp Planned Parenthood.
Tiktok reps refuse to approve any of our ads.
Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood has active ads running on Tiktok with clear political motives.
Tiktok has allowed over $80,000 in ads in the last month to run unhindered, per @Digiday.
In a statement on their website, Lila Rose elaborated:
In yet another attempt to silence pro-life speech, Big Tech has sided with the abortion industry by banning Live Action advertisements on TikTok. Live Action is the only pro-life organization with a large following on the platform, and spreading facts about abortion is vital on that platform specifically.
In the latest attempt to silence the pro-life organization’s content, TikTok has banned Live Action from advertising on its platform. While our content is still available to those who search for it, we are blocked from expanding our reach to new viewers.
Unfortunately, censorship is nothing new to us. Large technology companies play an ever larger role in our lives, including by deciding what information we come in contact with. We must rise against this unjust censorship. While we respectfully demand the reinstatement of our ads on TikTok, we will also proactively work to expand our reach on all of our other platforms.”
Pastor” Greg Locke of Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, TN has been permanently suspended from Twitter, the result of a series of violations stemming from his continued public comments telling people not to get vaccinated.
Now, he has been banned from Twitter, losing the ability to create new accounts.
It’s not the first time Locke has been suspended, receiving a host of 24 hours to 30 days band dating back over a decade, when he first joined the platform. Now, having amassed nearly 115,000 followers on the social media giant, Locke is spitting mad about the whole affair, taking to Facebook to air his grievances, telling followers that he has already filed a lawsuit to be restored.
“After building it up, having a verified platform on Twitter, they take the whole thing away. After years, since 2009, because I’m a ‘danger’. Guess who’s still on Twitter? The Taliban, ladies and gentlemen. Are you awake yet, sheep? Wake up, use your brain, use your Bible, get a backbone, they just permanently banned me.
I’m the first pastor with any sort of a platform that’s been banned. So guess what? We’re fighting back right now. Within one hour of it happening, we’ve already had our wonderful lawyer for our ministry file, and we have just entered in to the class action lawsuit against Twitter and all of these censorship Nazis.
Locke goes on to explain that he’s joined the class action lawsuit with Candace Owens and Donald Trump, and expressed his disgust that they banned a blue check verified pastor, telling his followers to follow him on other social media platforms, professing his belief that he was excised from Twitter “because they just want to be where they censor us. We’re over the target. We’re dropping bombs, gospel bombs, political bombs, biblical bombs. They don’t like what we’re saying.”
“Shame on you. Twitter, shame on you. You ban a pastor, you ban a sitting president, you ban other conservative voices. You ban Christians but you let the Taliban- you let the Taliban terrorists stay on your platform and keep saying all the wicked evil nonsense that they need to say? It shows who you really are. You show your true colors.”
..I’m not apologizing for being too abrasive, okay? The days of ‘diplomacy’ are well over, it’s time to fight. It’s time to stand up and say ‘enough is enough.’; We’re gonna push back and so Twitter, you’ve done your dead level best, now we’re going to stand up we’re going to push back…”
Like clockwork, our social media overlords have issued a command on high and gave our publisher, JD Hall, a 24-hour suspension from Facebook. Furthermore, they have deleted this post, which we have published in its entirety here.
The last time he defied them by making the outrageous, anti-scientific claims that men are men and women are women, he was banned for months.
It won’t be our first, and it certainly won’t be our last.
Stuff like this is why we count on our patrons and keep us afloat, and why this is ultimately a post about gratitude. We thank our supporters with a grateful heart. Your sacrifices for us slow the tide as we grow our audience across other platforms, readying for the day we are wiped off the platform in its entirety.
LifeSiteNews has announced that they’ve been permanent banned from Facebook and have had their page unpublished, resulting in losing hundreds of thousands of followers, thousands of posts, and over a million comments.
The move to deplatform them comes just months after announcing the embattled website was likewise suspended and kicked off YouTube, losing another 300,000 subscribers there and narrowing their circle of influence even further
The website, which primarily covers news related to abortion, had its page taken down for publishing “false information about COVID-19 that could contribute to physical harm” and that they published “vaccine discouraging information on the platform.”
In this case, it appears to stem from an April 9th article titled “COVID vaccines can be deadly for some” where they explain that some people who have gotten the vaccine have died from it. Despite this being well-documented that a small portion, even if it’s a tiny one, will have adverse side effects and can die from it, Facebook doesn’t anyone to post anything but ringing praise, and therefore they have been excised from social media., never to be seen again.
This is not a temporary measure: It is gone for good and cannot be appealed.
“We have known this day was coming for months now….
Facebook has been silencing any voice that goes against their beliefs and agenda. Our LifeSiteNews Facebook page has been removed simply because we have shared reports of doctors, nurses, expert researchers, and even the former Pfizer VP speaking out against the COVID shots. We’ve also been tagged for the numerous articles we have shared making the connection between the COVID shots, and really all vaccines, and aborted baby cell lines…
This all comes down to another case of Big Tech silencing free speech on their platform.”
We know that it is only a matter of time before we here at Protestia “shuffle off this mortal coil” as well and get banned from Facebook. We have migrated already to Gab.com, where you can find us at @protestia for that eventuality. Mercifully, we also have our Patrons, who support the mission after we took a leap of faith and removed all ads on our website, losing the ad revenue but making our site more accessible. If you’re able to help out in any way, join us and help see Christ glorified through the practice of discernment and polemics.
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