Censorship Following Florida Nightclub Shooting – Eric Dubin

TND Editor’s Note:  Censorship is on the rise in response to the shooting in Florida.  Aaron Kesel at We Are Change reported that Reddit and Facebook are blocking user’s content discussing the Orlando shooting.  Kesel notes:

The social media outlets are preventing important information from getting out to the public regarding the facts, witness, testimony, and videos about the attack. Censorship is nothing new to either Facebook and Reddit. In one famous example, Mark Zuckerberg was caught working with the German government to cover up the violence of migrants in Germany.  Now, a narrative is being shaped based off of what the fourth branch of the government tells us is true,  despite several eye witness reports that there may have been multiple shooters. Is this being covered up to suppress under National Security reasons to not induce panic in the public?

Something tells me we aren’t getting the full story and won’t with moves like these to suppress the public’s knowledge.

Twitter is also censoring users.  Journalist and entrepreneur Milo Yiannopoulos’ Twitter account was suspended, presumably on grounds related to something he Tweeted about the shooting.  Ironically enough, the very first Google search engine result generated when entering his name is a CBS affiliate story discussing Yiannopoulos’ view that Islam is responsible for violence against gay people and women.

WTF why did Twitter suspend Milo Yiannopoulos @Nero account? this is getting insane https://t.co/YhatZhZJOt pic.twitter.com/BflXYC8sRt

— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) June 15, 2016