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Assault on a Customer?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Ever since Amazon created its own delivery service, the blue vests of its drivers and the dark blue trucks with the monopolistic giant’s arrow have become as ubiquitous as UPS brown or FedEx purple and orange on every street and highway in America. And with good reason.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon’s package volume is expected to surpass UPS and FedEx as a host of men and women in blue rush to deliver orders from Chinese third party sellers and drop shippers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut on the first Friday of June, a delivery in California instead ended in a violent assault.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vPP5_pjj8uU\/YNjZ400gL8I\/AAAAAAAATUo\/BWx6jcP6Z_UM_lvMl5hxvxPmp2N2b9KvQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s491\/amazon%2Bassault.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"334\" data-original-width=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vPP5_pjj8uU\/YNjZ400gL8I\/AAAAAAAATUo\/BWx6jcP6Z_UM_lvMl5hxvxPmp2N2b9KvQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/amazon%2Bassault.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EUsually Amazon rips off customers, companies, and entire countries, but it doesn’t beat them. This time there was an exception as Itzel Ramirez, an Amazon driver in her twenties, was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/06\/critical-race-theory-violence-woke-amazon-driver-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ecaught on video\u003C\/a\u003E violently \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/amazon-delivery-driver-arrested-for-assault-says-she-punched-67-year-old-in-self-defense\"\u003Eassaulting\u003C\/a\u003E a 67-year-old woman who had asked about her package.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Ramirez claimed self-defense, the video shows her assaulting the elderly woman from behind, punching her in the back of the head, and seemingly using a key ring in the assault. The beating caused the victim to collide with the door and reportedly left her with a broken nose.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was not the first assault by an Amazon driver on an elderly person caught on video. An Amazon driver had previously assaulted a 73-year-old man in Miami Beach. But this time the Amazon delivery person had used a politically correct slur thereby turning it into a hate crime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERamirez had accused her victim of “white privilege”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite that slur, she has not been charged with a hate crime. In a state where critical race theory is being forced into schools and on employees of major corporations, it’s not likely that a violent racist echoing an official dogma that demonizes white people would be held accountable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon claimed that the violent assault on one of its customers “does not reflect the high standards we have for drivers\" and assured everyone that \"this individual is no longer delivering Amazon packages.” But it may be worth examining what Amazon’s standards really are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike every Silicon Valley company, Amazon has gone all in on critical race theory.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Amazon assault happened the same year that Jeff Bezos, the company's founder and CEO, announced that he was stepping down. Bezos was ruthless, cruel, and amoral, but beyond using the Washington Post to become a D.C. power broker had less interest in conventional corporate virtue signaling.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAndy Jassy, his right-hand man who will replace him as CEO after being in charge of Amazon's cloud platform, is a more traditional Big Tech wokester.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJassy falsely \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/06\/whiteness-woke-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eaccused\u003C\/a\u003E police departments of \"murdering black people\", supported illegal aliens, and made the decision to shut down Parler. His wife is a Bernie Sanders donor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe incoming Big Tech CEO has vowed to focus the company on “diversity and more inclusion.” If its employees weren't feeling abused enough by having to pee into cups, Amazon mandated that all employees complete a 90-minute \"Strengthening Our Culture of Inclusion\" program.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon had already banned non-inclusive language like \"blacklists\" (which didn't stop it from blacklisting all sorts of people), but now it was going further with identity politics affinity groups and its Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) events featuring extremists and racists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECORE events packed thousands of Amazon employees into massive meetings to be accused of racism by a series of racist and extreme leftist speakers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Big Tech monopoly’s first CORE event had already featured Robin DiAngelo, whose famous idea is that white people are all racist and evil, as well as Carmen Perez, the Farrakhan supporter who served as one of the leaders of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/womens-march-organizer-and-farrakhan-fan-tamika-mallory-attacks-the-anti-defamation-league\"\u003Ethe Women's March\u003C\/a\u003E before being forced out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon also invited Ijeoma Oluo, a self-described “internet yeller” who had written a book arguing that “white male mediocrity” is a theme throughout history. That’s exactly the message that a company of white male engineers needed to hear. Oluo had berated her own mother, who raised her after being abandoned by her Nigerian academic father, over her “white privilege”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso at Amazon’s first CORE was Michael Welp whose White Men As Full Diversity Partners stirred \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/lockheed-martins-woke-industrial-complex\"\u003Ea backlash\u003C\/a\u003E when its training at Lockheed described white men as racists and privileged.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWelp was also present at the second CORE event while stigmatizing white people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlicia Garza, a co-founder of the racist black nationalist hate group Black Lives Matter, appeared on a CORE panel together with DiAngelo and Perez.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso there was Latasha Gillespie, the head of global diversity and inclusion at Amazon Studios, who has claimed that police murder black people while ranting about \"white privilege\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe second CORE event also included rabid hatred for America with Edgar Villanueva showing a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sultanknish\/status\/1405648637342801921\"\u003Eslide\u003C\/a\u003E that described America as being based on colonization and genocide.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat impact did all of these racist and hateful ideas have on Amazon employees?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon, like many other major corporations, has submerged its employees in the dogma of critical race theory. And while this is meant to lead to the discrimination and mistreatment of white employees in the name of equity, could it also lead to violence against white people?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Big Tech monopoly has relied on independent contractors to build its delivery network. However Amazon also exercises a great deal of control over these drivers. And as its statement after the “white privilege” assault in California shows, it ultimately controls their employment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon has embedded equity into its Delivery Service Partner push and encouraged existing employees to become DSPs. Did any of its existing racist CORE programming have an influence on the cultural ecosystem of the DSP that employed Itzel Ramirez?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is unfortunately a question that no one in the media appears to be asking.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe rise of the DSP system paralleled the rise of critical race theory at Amazon. Even while Amazon was finding new ways to virtue signal, it was also finding new ways to exploit workers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon’s DSP program evades accountability for delivery drivers like Ramirez who wear its blue vests and drive its vans, but who are actually working for small contractors, many of them minorities, who are being deliberately kept small so they can never compete for a better deal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Big Tech giant will insist that it had no responsibility for the assault on one of its customers by a racist driver who had absorbed the critical race theory slur of “white privilege” that Amazon had endorsed by featuring racist figures and rhetoric at its CORE inclusion events.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon’s white leadership encourages racism against white people while remaining insulated from minority workers who might want to lash out at the nearest white person they can find.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen BLM and Antifa created CHAZ in their Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone, the epicenter was about a dozen blocks away from Andy Jassy's 1906 mansion on the outskirts of Capitol Hill. But there's a world of differences between the local small businesses that were terrorized by black nationalists and anarchists in CHAZ and the sedate tree-lined street of multi-million dollar Victorian homes where Jassy and his pro-Sanders designer wife comfortably reside.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe incoming Amazon CEO may rant about the police and his home may boast the ubiquitous \"Black Lives Matter\" \"No Human is Illegal\", and \"Science is Real\" lawn sign prefered by wealthy woke suburbanites, but his estate is protected by a spiked gate and high walls disguised by massive hedges. Defunding the police is an experience to be lived out by other, poorer people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome people may be beaten by Amazon’s critical race theory drivers over their white privilege, but Amazon executives have spiked gates to make certain they’re not the ones being beaten.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6441229114177587878\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/did-amazons-critical-race-theory-push.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6441229114177587878"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6441229114177587878"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/did-amazons-critical-race-theory-push.html","title":"Did Amazon’s Critical Race Theory Push Lead to a Racist Assault on a Customer?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vPP5_pjj8uU\/YNjZ400gL8I\/AAAAAAAATUo\/BWx6jcP6Z_UM_lvMl5hxvxPmp2N2b9KvQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/amazon%2Bassault.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7378100128632921970"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-03T23:29:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-03T23:29:33.597-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Big Tech"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Corporate America"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Big Tech's 'No Free Speech' Amendment"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"A few years ago the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) was demanding government regulations that would force internet providers to carry the content of members like Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Now it's suing Florida to fight regulations that would force some of those same members to carry the content of ordinary Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENet Neutrality, or forcing cable and DSL companies to carry all content without picking and choosing, \"helps preserve free speech, access to information — and democracy,\" former CCIA boss Ed Black argued two years ago.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-v3yFqdLWdmQ\/YLmeE6omonI\/AAAAAAAATSI\/iJPD7u2MghUZ5JZ7q1KpFH3tRbKhC53sgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s685\/google%2Bevil.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"355\" data-original-width=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-v3yFqdLWdmQ\/YLmeE6omonI\/AAAAAAAATSI\/iJPD7u2MghUZ5JZ7q1KpFH3tRbKhC53sgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/google%2Bevil.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EBut when Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law barring Big Tech monopolies from deplatforming candidates for public office and journalists, and forcing Big Tech to adopt clear and consistent standards for how they treat users, including deplatforming, as is the norm in every other industry, the CCIA went to war against free speech, access to information -- and democracy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernor DeSantis says that Big Tech is suppressing free speech. Big Tech argues that DeSantis is taking away its free speech which it defines as censoring people’s speech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We are bringing this suit to safeguard the industry’s free speech,\" current CCIA boss Matt Schruers claimed. “A digital service that declines to host harmful content is exercising its own First Amendment rights.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDoes Facebook have free speech? And can speech consist of denying service to conservatives? Should Mark Zuckerberg’s speech nullify the speech of millions of Americans?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1948, the first program ran on a computer. It was also the year that George Orwell finished 1984 with its infamous slogan, “Freedom is Slavery” and “Slavery is Freedom.” Big Tech’s version of it is, “Free Speech is Censorship” and “Censorship is Free Speech.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Big Tech censors millions of Americans, it’s engaging in free speech. And when those Americans rise up and fight back against their illegal monopolies, that’s censorship.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Big Tech already dismantled all the arguments it’s putting forward with Net Neutrality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf a digital service picking and choosing its content is a First Amendment right, then why don’t cable companies have the same right to bar access to the harmful content on Twitter?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA trade association whose members include Twitter and Facebook insists they have a right to ban the President of the United States and any conservatives because that’s free speech, but that AT\u0026amp;T or Comcast don’t have the right to ban access to Twitter because of free speech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf censorship is also free speech then that cuts both ways. Otherwise it’s free speech for me, but not for thee, which is exactly the argument that Big Tech’s lobbies and front groups are making.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon, Google, Facebook, and Twitter want to force internet service providers to have no choice about carrying them, but they want to pick and choose whose speech they carry. And yet Google, Amazon, and Facebook have much broader monopolistic powers than internet service providers. The cable provider market has too little choice, but it’s incredibly diverse compared to an e-ecosystem with Google, whose search engine controls 80% of the market, Facebook, which controls 80% of the social media market, and Amazon’s massive ebook dominance.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf any aspect of the ‘net’ needs more neutrality, it’s the platforms, not the providers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Comcast’s control of 40% of the broadband market gives it so much power that it can’t be allowed to pick and choose what content it carries, what about Facebook’s 80% control?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd if Comcast potentially deciding not to carry Twitter is an assault on “free speech, access to information — and democracy”, then why isn’t Twitter’s decision not to carry President Trump and other conservatives an assault on “free speech, access to information — and democracy”?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwitter, Facebook, and the rest of the Big Tech crew want to argue that denying access to platforms is an attack on free speech, but that platforms denying access to users isn’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Tech’s position is that only its monopolies have free speech and they should use that speech to deny everyone else free speech. That’s a surreal mockery of the First Amendment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Tech’s trade group is relying on the same compelled speech argument that Christian bakers have used to avoid baking a cake for a gay wedding. But there’s a multitude of bakeries, most of whom will be happy to bake a cake for anything if you pay them enough.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow many Facebooks and Googles are there?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChristian bakers and photographers argued that they’re artists and taking part in a gay wedding would compel their speech. Are Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey artists? Are Facebook and Twitter their artistic creations that would be spoiled by allowing conservative speech?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet the same media that ridiculed the idea that a Christian baker should be allowed to pick and choose which cakes he bakes is insisting that telling a social media monopoly not to censor candidates for public office is a violation of Zuckerberg and Dorsey’s free speech rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut if the speech on Facebook and Twitter is the speech of these billionaires, then they can be held accountable for it. If it’s not their speech, then free speech isn’t an issue. The CCIA is in the absurd position of arguing that speech on platforms is and isn’t really theirs speech. And that platforms express their speech by taking away the ability of others to speak.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECall it the No Free Speech version of the First Amendment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Big Tech speaks by eliminating the speech of others, then maybe we would be better off without this novel black hole theory of speech on whose basis it’s going to war against Florida.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe CCIA was advocating for the so-called “Save the Internet Act” to impose Net Neutrality. But the internet appears to be in no particular danger from the lack of Net Neutrality. Despite all the alarmism about the end of the internet and even death threats (one activist was sentenced for threatening to kill the family of Trump’s FCC Chairman Ajit Pai), little has actually changed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s not the case with Big Tech censorship which silenced millions of people from POTUS on down, influenced the outcome of a national election, and defined the national debate. Net Neutrality advocates could not point to any measurable harm caused to them, but opponents of Big Tech censorship can easily point to the harm being done to them and to the United States.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFlorida is bringing real Net Neutrality to the table. Unlike Net Neutrality, which was an effort by platforms to enlist the government and dumber lefty internet users into their war against broadband providers, real Net Neutrality begins with monopolistic platforms not providers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The internet has been historically neutral. After decades of legal battles by those who want to either make money from discrimination or look the other way, we are glad to see legislation to protect consumers’ and businesses’ access to the open internet,\" the CCIA argued a mere two years ago in defense of Net Neutrality and the “Save the Internet Act”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnfortunately the internet hasn’t been neutral. It’s dominated by a speech cartel which deploys the rhetoric of an open internet and free speech when it serves its business interests, but is fighting tooth and nail when Governor DeSantis and Florida asked Big Tech to be neutral.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConservatives looked the other way while Big Tech consolidated its control over the internet. They’ve gotten tired of looking the other way, but Big Tech is just as eager to gaslight them, to hire Republican lobbyists to argue that speech is censorship and censorship is speech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe need a real Net Neutrality and a real Save the Internet Act.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe CCIA has unintentionally made some great points over the years. Americans paid for the internet, from the earliest networks down to Google. We put our economy and our political system on the internet. Now Big Tech monopolies are consuming our wealth and our freedom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans deserve an open and neutral internet. Consumers and businesses need access to an open internet, but so do elected officials, journalists, and anyone who cares about the way that our country is run and has an opinion about government, culture, and education.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Tech engaged in blatant election rigging and voter suppression in the 2020 election. And it’s marginalizing and suppressing the views of half the country from the marketplace of ideas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIts front group laughably claims that it’s suppressing half the country in the name of free speech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA true net neutrality applied to the CCIA’s Big Tech bosses would \"preserve free speech, access to information — and democracy.\" Florida’s move is a good first step in the war to take back free speech on the internet and force platforms to host political speech in an open and neutral way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Tech claims that it loves free speech. Governor DeSantis and Florida are showing what real free speech looks like.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/7378100128632921970\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/big-techs-no-free-speech-amendment.html#comment-form","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7378100128632921970"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7378100128632921970"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/big-techs-no-free-speech-amendment.html","title":"Big Tech's 'No Free Speech' Amendment"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-v3yFqdLWdmQ\/YLmeE6omonI\/AAAAAAAATSI\/iJPD7u2MghUZ5JZ7q1KpFH3tRbKhC53sgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/google%2Bevil.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4264220952963618170"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-11T14:54:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-11T14:54:02.228-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Big Tech"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Love Song of Bill and Melinda"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"After Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, and Pepé Le Pew and Penelope, there were Bill and Melinda. The Microsoft technocrat and his spouse were a love story for the ages.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-uNYYZpe6B98\/YJrSsHedq9I\/AAAAAAAATDs\/yTTpJ6xTkooGXKbLecGWJaAXQnaBtFJdACNcBGAsYHQ\/s776\/image_2021-05-11_115335.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"480\" data-original-width=\"776\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-uNYYZpe6B98\/YJrSsHedq9I\/AAAAAAAATDs\/yTTpJ6xTkooGXKbLecGWJaAXQnaBtFJdACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-05-11_115335.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIn 1993, Bill proposed to Melinda: an executive at his company. In 1994, they were married. In 1995, Melinda debuted Microsoft Bob. Microsoft Bob treated computer users like idiots who were too stupid to be allowed to use their computers without a lot of handholding.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECondescending handholding was also what the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation offered the world as one of the industry’s most notoriously miserable human beings decided to become a philanthropist and save the world from all the people who weren’t running it properly.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2000, Gates stepped down as CEO of Microsoft, left his day-to-day role in 2008, and departed as chairman of the board in 2014. He also jettisoned 8 million shares of the company.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EForget CEO of Microsoft, Bill would use his vast wealth to become the CEO of the world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEach of Bill’s resignations followed another ‘Microsoft Bob’, another failed Microsoft project, from Windows 2000, to Windows Vista in 2006, and most infamously, Windows 8 in 2014.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery time Microsoft screwed up badly, Bill Gates seemed to decide that he should spend less time trying to make the company that had temporarily made him the richest man in the world succeed, and more time trying to run the world. Running the world hasn’t gone well for Gates.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEver since Bill and Melinda got away from making bad software and began building a bad non-profit, the country and the world have been treated to the thoughts and wishes of the godmother of Microsoft Bob. The only thing more infuriating than having to endure the hectoring of a soulless nerd who thinks he can solve the world’s problems is taking it from his trophy wife.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2019, Melinda released the obligatory feminist tract that female dot com tycoons were putting out at the time, titled, “The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was no sense of irony in a woman who was only rich, famous, and powerful because she had caught the eye of an obnoxious tech tycoon writing about empowering women.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe release of Melinda’s book came at an awkward time when female employees at Microsoft, who weren’t married to Bill, were complaining about sexual harassment. In one of those complaints, a woman who worked at Microsoft claimed that a contractor \"threatened to kill her if she did not perform implied sexual acts\" and her manager told her it was just flirting.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmpowering.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe happy couple, Bill and Melinda (not the Microsoft employee and her potential rapist and killer), spent some $53 billion from Bill’s wealth obtained by chaining companies and users to a bad operating system and its bad satellite software on their ‘philanthropy’. When people think of philanthropy, they imagine money going to people, but a lot of the Gates fortune went into policy. Instead of funding people, they funded assorted political agendas up their alley.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA ton of money from the college dropout tycoon and his trophy wife went into education where the duo managed to trash everything from K-12 schooling to the SATs. Meanwhile politicians, the experts they funded, and the media hailed them as visionaries even though they had no idea what they were doing. And what they did do was make American education even worse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter years of giving talks and speeches to their own organizations about the amazing progress being made, Bill and Melinda made a different sort of statement last year with their letter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Why We Swing for the Fences”, issued in 2020, had one of those ubiquitous mantra titles that Big Tech companies use to spin their momentous failures as aspirational victories.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFeaturing a photo of Bill and Melinda, maskless, leering down at a skeptical black woman in a mask, the letter admitted to its \"share of disappointments, setbacks, and surprises\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“When it comes to U.S. education, though, we’re not yet seeing the kind of bottom-line impact we expected. The status quo is still failing American students,” Melinda argued.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the status quo is the common core and equity nightmare they helped create.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s plenty of bottom-line impact from the Gates money. It’s just bad.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter two decades of doing this, Melinda admitted that, \"one thing that makes improving education tricky is that even among people who work on the issue, there isn’t much agreement on what works and what doesn’t.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaybe they should have considered that admission of ignorance before they used their vast fortune to force their ideas on millions of parents and children around the country?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Are charter schools good or bad? Should the school day be shorter or longer? Is this lesson plan for fractions better than that one?” they wrote. “It’s also hard to isolate any single intervention and say it made all the difference.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat momentary admission that they had no idea what they’ve been talking about for two decades after upending the country’s education system didn’t stop them from continuing to push their preferred policies anyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnly a massive divorce might be able to do that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe shattering of the great corporation of Bill and Mel will mean potentially dividing up a quarter-million-acres of farmland, an estate known as Xanadu 2.0 near Seattle, a 229-acre horse farm near San Diego, another horse farm in Florida, a ranch in Wyoming, and a ski club in Montana. But it will also mean splitting up their vast philanthropic enterprise.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBill will have to take India, while Melinda will have to take Africa.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe divorcing billionaires will have to decide which of them gets to run which parts of the world, country by country, and state by state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMelinda will set educational policy in Colorado, while Bill will call the shots in Arizona schools. One will take South Dakota and the other will take North Dakota. Bill will get everything in California north of Los Angeles, while Melinda will control the schools below the divorce line.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn their fence-swinging letter, Bill and Melinda claimed that they were already focusing on separate monogrammed issues: “climate change” for him and “gender equity” for her.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConsidering Bill’s massive estates, including a $43 million oceanfront beach house in San Diego County, and Melinda’s fortune by way of marriage and then divorce, global warming and gender equity seem like the perfect causes for them to virtue signal their hypocrisy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA cockeyed optimist might hope for a wake-up call in which Bill and Melinda finally realize that they can’t run their own lives, or Microsoft, and so they probably shouldn’t be running the world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s also a lesson in humility there for their younger peers like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of the industry in which college dropouts make a fortune from a product, and decide that hitting a niche at the right time makes them superior beings qualified to run the world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Gates divorce may be bad news for the couple, but it’s good news for local communities, parents, and reformers who actually want to be able to run their own school systems. And everyone in any field, from health care to education to energy, who was tired of being dictated to by a power couple and their vast organization and fantastic wealth, is breathing a sigh of relief.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe divorce is likely to weaken the Gates machine. It won’t destroy its hold over our daily lives, but as the two sets of lawyers circle each other, it may give us some breathing room.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that’s a good thing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMicrosoft Bob went away, but it spawned the Comic Sans font. Like Bob, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is likely to be history, but it will continue to haunt us anyway.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4264220952963618170\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/the-love-song-of-bill-and-melinda.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4264220952963618170"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4264220952963618170"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/the-love-song-of-bill-and-melinda.html","title":"The Love Song of Bill and Melinda"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-uNYYZpe6B98\/YJrSsHedq9I\/AAAAAAAATDs\/yTTpJ6xTkooGXKbLecGWJaAXQnaBtFJdACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-05-11_115335.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-48573106117203179"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-09T23:55:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-09T23:55:55.946-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Big Tech"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UN"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Facebook Used UN Speech Codes to Ban Trump"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In 2018, the Trump administration pulled out of the United Nations Human Rights Council. That same year the administration\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/3dbdab24ef334cc086503874157d86c0\"\u003E cut funding\u003C\/a\u003E to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) which had repeatedly attacked America and the Trump administration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe administration dismissed these attacks as impotent, but the UN’s human rights apparatus had more power over Americans, including President Trump, than most people realized.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NEGJO2kgLXM\/YJiuwW19iNI\/AAAAAAAATDk\/qeSzSoQxL4cu1XYTtrHHGBA14g7-NYURACNcBGAsYHQ\/s670\/image_2021-05-09_205544.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"450\" data-original-width=\"670\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NEGJO2kgLXM\/YJiuwW19iNI\/AAAAAAAATDk\/qeSzSoQxL4cu1XYTtrHHGBA14g7-NYURACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-05-09_205544.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIn 2012, the Rabat Plan of Action was born at a UN OHCHR conference in the Moroccan capital whose elected government was under the control of the\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/jcpa.org\/a-wolf-in-sheep%E2%80%99s-clothing-the-victory-of-the-islamist-justice-and-development-party-in-morocco\/\"\u003E Justice and Development Party\u003C\/a\u003E, the\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.counterextremism.com\/content\/muslim-brotherhood-morocco\"\u003E local branch\u003C\/a\u003E of the Muslim Brotherhood, partly in response to Muslim outrage over “blasphemy” against Mohammed, and defined a program for censoring “hatred” and “incitement”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2021, the Rabat Plan of Action along with other UN guidelines, was used by Facebook’s Oversight Board to justify the continued social media censorship of President Trump.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe social media monopoly which controls over 80% of social media traffic had outsourced its censorship to a board which used UN OHCHR speech guidelines to determine when Americans, including the President of the United States, could be censored.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe United States could try to defund OHCHR and pull out of the Human Rights Council, but the UN’s speech codes were already defining what Americans could say far more than anything in the American legal system. When Facebook’s Oversight Board\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/05\/facebook-used-un-rules-keep-banning-trump-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E issued its verdict on Trump\u003C\/a\u003E, it did not cite a single item of United States law, including the First Amendment, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/05\/facebook-used-un-rules-keep-banning-trump-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ebut cited the\u003C\/a\u003E Rabat Plan of Action, and articles of the UN's International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), OHCHR, a UN Special Rapporteur to the Human Rights Council, and the UN's International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerican law does not apply on Facebook. UN law does.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELibertarian and liberal critics of the campaign against Big Tech clamor that private companies are not governments, and have the right to censor anyone they please without falling afoul of the First Amendment. But when Big Tech monopolies that already control most online speech respond to state pressure from Democrat officials and their allied media outlets by imposing UN speech guidelines on Americans, including the President of the United States, that’s not private.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s state censorship by tech monopolies imposing rules created by foreign governments.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMichelle Bachelet, the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights, is Chile's former Socialist Party president who had spent years of exile in East Germany and who was backed by the Communist Party.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPrince Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the son of the Lord Chamberlain of Jordan, Bachelet’s predecessor, had warned that President Trump’s words could lead to violence, and urged that “the conduct of the president should be under very careful scrutiny by the international community and by this office.” He \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-08-urges-facebook-proactively-speech.html\"\u003Ealso warned\u003C\/a\u003E Facebook to “be thinking proactively”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFacebook's Oversight Board includes Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Denmark's former Prime Minister from its Social Democratic Party, and Catalina Botero Marino, the Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair on Freedom of Expression. Facebook's Vice-President for Global Affairs and Communications is former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector Thomas Hughes of the Oversight Board’s administrative staff formerly worked at UNHCR, the UN's refugee agency, and for the European Commission, and was a member of the UK Foreign Secretary's Independent Advisory Group on Human Rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is not private action.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFacebook can’t claim that it’s a private company and can determine what’s on its platform and then go ahead and use rules created by foreign governments and officials to censor Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Rabat Plan of Action, which Facebook’s Oversight Board used to justify the censorship of President Trump, declares that states are obliged to restrict speech that \"amounts to incitement to discrimination, hostility, or violence\" citing ICCPR articles 19 and 20. The UN's ICCPR Article 19 allows restricting expression for \"the reputations of others\" and \"public order\". Article 20 orders a ban on \"propaganda for war\" and the \"advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese are a few of the various UN regulations, treaties, and conventions cited by Facebook’s Oversight Board. And while all this may sound like meaningless UN gibberish to most Americans, these UN rules define what you can and can’t say on the internet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd what that means is that participating in the marketplace of ideas and in political campaigns in the United States is now subject to United Nations regulations through Silicon Valley.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFacebook’s Oversight Board, which is mostly non-American, does not take into account United States law. But neither is it a private enterprise that merely follows corporate guidelines.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerican political speech on Facebook is being regulated by international law, not US law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is no longer a choice between regulating and not regulating Facebook. The Big Tech social media monopoly has called for regulation and has already accepted UN regulations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only remaining choice is whether Big Tech will follow US or UN laws.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Facebook’s Oversight Board issues a ruling censoring the President of the United States using UN guidelines, that’s a fundamental conflict between the UN and the Constitution.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only way to resolve that conflict is to force Big Tech to stop interfering with free speech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPrivate companies have the right to remove calls for violence and other violations of their terms of service, but when a platform controls more than half the political speech in the country and actively discriminates against the views of half the country, that makes free speech a dead letter. Silicon Valley’s speech cartel has already colluded to suppress the political opposition, but it’s now applying UN regulations to American political speech and destroying the Bill of Rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Founding Fathers did not envision a scenario in which a cartel of private companies could control the mail and eliminate all letters that were not loyal to the British Crown. The Supreme Court of the 1950s did not envision Ma Bell deciding to prevent Americans from making phone calls if their views clashed with those of the UN. But that’s the threat that has now arrived.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWoke companies aren’t just sending out emails or threatening boycotts, they’re eliminating the Bill of Rights and subjecting American political speech to the dictates of the United Nations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis isn’t a clash between private enterprise and government officials, but a struggle between two governments, the legitimate government of the United States and the illegitimate umbrella association of tyrannies of the United Nations. If Big Tech and the UN prevail, freedom dies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf American free speech doesn’t apply to the internet, United Nations speech regulations will.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/48573106117203179\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/facebook-used-un-speech-codes-to-ban.html#comment-form","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/48573106117203179"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/48573106117203179"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/facebook-used-un-speech-codes-to-ban.html","title":"Facebook Used UN Speech Codes to Ban Trump"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NEGJO2kgLXM\/YJiuwW19iNI\/AAAAAAAATDk\/qeSzSoQxL4cu1XYTtrHHGBA14g7-NYURACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-05-09_205544.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8365738132596049899"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-26T04:19:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-26T04:19:00.399-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Big Tech"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pro-Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Facebook Has a Private Army: Its Founders Want to Free Criminals"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"It was a love story made in the start-ups of San Francisco when Mike Krieger, the co-founder of Instagram, proposed to Kaitlyn Trigger, a former product manager at TaskRabbit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstagram is where celebrities go to post their vacation photos and TaskRabbit is the gig economy app where random people labor to perform menial tasks for a few bucks. While both of these apps are a blight on the world, it’s different for the wizards behind the curtain.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NTxmpdtvLe0\/YH-Z0PbgTNI\/AAAAAAAATBo\/Y7ObazVclMYwWkPNok61gZWGopj_tdZUQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s805\/image_2021-04-20_201944.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"491\" data-original-width=\"805\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NTxmpdtvLe0\/YH-Z0PbgTNI\/AAAAAAAATBo\/Y7ObazVclMYwWkPNok61gZWGopj_tdZUQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-04-20_201944.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhen Krieger, a Brazilian immigrant, married his TaskRabbit sweetheart, they went back to, what W Magazine described \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wmagazine.com\/story\/kaitlyn-trigger-mike-krieger-wedding\"\u003Eas an\u003C\/a\u003E, “Art Deco house... in the Dolores Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, where Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, is a neighbor.” Zuckerberg’s Facebook had paid $1 billion for Instagram of which Krieger reportedly got $100 million.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat do you do when you have lots of money, but no purpose or meaning?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Kriegers began to collect art of the sort that people with no taste and no concept of  aesthetics, but ridiculous amounts of money, buy up to show off in magazine photo spreads.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike matching wall safes in their wall that can’t be opened.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“There’s a clause in the contract that says if we open it, it’s no longer art,” Kaitlyn, photographed smirking at the camera, explained to the New York Times.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso if you open up all the prisons, then no one is safe anymore except Big Tech executives because the other thing that the Kriegers decided to do with their free time was free criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe happy tech couple founded the Future Justice Fund which funneled money into a variety of pro-crime groups and Democrat organizations. “Many ‘tough-on-crime’ policies actually erode public safety,” the organization falsely claims. Beneficiaries include Californians For Safety And Justice which is pushing to eliminate bail and legalize muggings by treating them \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/sacramento.cbslocal.com\/2021\/03\/17\/crime-bill-sb-82-robberies-petty-theft\/\"\u003Eas petty theft\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShoplifting had already been legalized, but SB 82 would go further so that “taking the property from the person of another or from a commercial establishment by means of force or fear without the use of a deadly weapon or great bodily injury” would constitute petty theft.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnother beneficiary of the Big Tech couple’s Facebook cash is Reform LA Jails.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReform LA Jails, formed by Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of the racist hate group Black Lives Matter, worked to defund police through Measure J, and elect George Gascon, who has refused to prosecute criminals, ridiculed victims of violent crime, and unleashed a wave of terror.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile it was working to help criminals, Reform LA Jails \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/13\/patrisse-cullors-reform-la-jails\/\"\u003Ealso paid\u003C\/a\u003E $191,000 to Cullors in 2019. That money probably enabled Cullors to afford her new $1.4 million house in Topanga Canyon.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not enough money to move into an art deco mansion near Zuckerberg, but it’s a start.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReform LA Jails was listed as being sponsored by the “Justice Team Network, A Project of Tides Advocacy”. The Justice Teams included Cullors, as well as Melina Abdullah, a BLM LA leader allied with Farrakhan whose hate rally had resulted in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/06\/farrakhan-supporter-led-la-black-lives-matter-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eattacks on synagogues\u003C\/a\u003E and Jewish businesses. Tides Advocacy appears to have poured \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/nonprofits\/organizations\/943153687\/201912829349300916\/IRS990ScheduleI\"\u003Eat least\u003C\/a\u003E $320,000 into Reform LA Jails.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E$390,000 came \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/12\/woke-housewives-silicon-valley-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Efrom Patty Quillin\u003C\/a\u003E, the wife of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. Quillin was a major backer of Gascon, and funded campaigns for pro-crime measures. The Netflix power couple live in Santa Cruz, but they’re happy to finance the destruction of Los Angeles.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJane Fonda threw in $5,000, but compared to tech money that was chump change.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOpen Philanthropy pushed a $750,000 grant for Reform LA Jails' pro-crime measure. The organization is a project of Dustin Moskovitz, a Facebook co-founder, and his wife Cari Tuna, who live in Palo Alto, and the Kriegers, flush with Facebook's cash, were also involved.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, has plowed a ton of cash into various pro-crime bids through the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative with $350 million going to the Justice Accelerator Fund.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccelerating justice and freeing criminals is a process that starts far from the Zuckerberg manor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Zuckerberg estate in Dolores Park is protected by a 15-man security team who helped turn the area into what neighbors described as \"nothing short of a fortress.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo one liked Casa Zuckerberg and its guards who park on the street in their silver SUVs, but matters escalated when William \"Gordon\" Kinzer, an accountant who used to live in the Dolores Heights area, before being priced out by tech titans, lost his home and became mentally ill.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKinzer began sleeping at a friend’s house. Zuckerberg’s private army didn’t like Kinzer. Team Zuckerberg took out a restraining order against the homeless accountant, accusing him of being a racist. The restraining order left Kinzer actually homeless, forcing him to sleep in his car.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I was concerned for my safety,\" one of Zuck's guards claimed about the disabled accountant.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Kinzer violated the restraining order, he was arrested.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnly a Big Tech billionaire’s lawyers could make a disabled man homeless and then arrest him while making it look like a win for social justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“You’re just a slave. How does it feel to work for a thug?” Kinzer was alleged to have asked.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s a valid question.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I’ve been trying to present them with a message: No one is above the law,” Kinzer \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cappstreetcrap.tumblr.com\/post\/123407939272\"\u003Eargued\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that’s the whole point. Some people are above the law because they make the laws.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Facebook CEO's security operation isn't a private matter. The guards are part of the company's massive security force with 6,000 personnel, some of whose thugs come from Pinkerton, while its intelligence unit \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/02\/14\/facebooks-security-team-tracks-posts-location-for-bolo-threat-list.html\"\u003Espies on its employees\u003C\/a\u003E, its users, and everyone else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFacebook’s Chief Security Officer is a former CIA agent. Its Global Security Operations Center has three operational hubs, and monitors Zuckerberg’s home and top employees, while Its BOLO watchlist appears to track even those who speak badly about the CEO.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince Facebook’s apps are on most phones, sometimes voluntarily and sometimes embedded forcibly by companies as part of a deal with the social media monopoly, the company’s security force is able to track much of the population of the country by using its own apps.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne former employee \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/02\/14\/facebooks-security-team-tracks-posts-location-for-bolo-threat-list.html\"\u003Ecalled\u003C\/a\u003E Facebook's security machine “very Big Brother-esque.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why Facebook employees who spoke to reporters off the record would make a point of turning off their phones.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Tech security teams are one of the industry’s best-kept secrets. Staffed by former military, intel and cops, they’re armed, relentless, and ruthless. Behind the dot com playgrounds for young Ivy League engineers supplied with toys and snacks are the men in black who are there to make sure that they don’t leak any secrets or defect with them to Silicon Valley rivals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Facebook’s bigwigs talk about reimagining public safety for the rest of us, they like the current system just fine when it comes to protecting their wealth, their power, and their persons.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EZuckerberg has a team of 70 armed guards led by one of Biden's former Secret Service agents. When he goes anywhere, his security team \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/inside-facebook-physical-security-protect-mark-zuckerberg-employees-2019-2?R=pl2\"\u003Eshows up beforehand\u003C\/a\u003E to check it out before letting him go inside. Undercover armed guards disguised to look like Facebook workers even surround him to keep him safe from a possible attack by his own employees at the office.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere's a secret route to get him out during an attack and bulletproof glass to keep him safe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFacebook has 1,000 security officers in the Bay Area alone. The San Francisco Police Department has\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/san-francisco-police-staffing-sf-officers-recruitment\/5389997\/\"\u003E less than 2,000 \u003C\/a\u003Epolice officers. Facebook’s force is half the size of the SFPD.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMenlo Park, where Facebook’s headquarters is located, has only 48 police officers, but the social media giant funded the creation of a ‘Facebook Unit’ police substation and provided over $11 million to assign a team of specific police officers to protect its headquarters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFacebook’s “public-private partnership” had paid for its own police force with arrest powers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is public safety reimagined for the elites. Everyone else gets George Gascon and police defunding. We get riots in the streets, smashed windows, and looted stores while Facebook and its top executives get a private police force half the size of the real one. We get junkies, crazies, and thugs roaming the streets, beating, raping, and killing, while anyone who even annoys a Zuckerberg guard will be hit with restraining orders and then arrested in a flash.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe cries of the victims of pro-crime policies can’t be heard in the mansions of Palo Alto, in the tech fortresses of San Francisco, and through the screen of private guards and drones.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Tech execs want us to reimagine public safety. Armed guards for them, crime for us.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead, let’s imagine we all had the same safety they do. All we have to do is turn back the clock a decade before Big Tech megadonors trashed the justice system and the police.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then we can all be as safe from crime and criminals as Mark Zuckerberg.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8365738132596049899\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/facebook-has-private-army-its-founders.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8365738132596049899"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8365738132596049899"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/facebook-has-private-army-its-founders.html","title":"Facebook Has a Private Army: Its Founders Want to Free Criminals"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NTxmpdtvLe0\/YH-Z0PbgTNI\/AAAAAAAATBo\/Y7ObazVclMYwWkPNok61gZWGopj_tdZUQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-04-20_201944.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}}]}});