Posted by Kimber Mc of Natural Healthy CBD on Dec 28th 2018
YOU'RE BEING CENSORED! Facebook Bans Legal Hemp Pages in Apparent Move to Protect Big Pharma
Your favorite hemp brands and companies may go missing from Facebook! However, can Facebook really be used as a place to obtain honest unbiased information anymore? It would seem if you have a differing opinion you better not say it, less you risk your social media, payment processors and entire existence online be taken from you.
Youtubers of all shapes and sizes have been falling risk to censorship lately. Since the recent deplatforming of TheRalphRetort (now located at stream.me) and their #1 late night show the #Killstream, twitter has been a mess of deep dives and deletion with the assumption that only one side would face censorship, but as we all knew would happen, that isn't the case. Now creators like MumkeyJones have been removed from the platform for his dark humor surrounding killer Elliot Rodger, which leaves creators questioning how can someone just delete history? Mumkey had two channels deleted from the platform, the final nail in his coffin being a private, never before seen video.This leaves many with concerns and nowhere to place them. What is grounds for censorship? How can we prevent ourselves from being completely deleted across social media platforms simply for disagreeing with or posing an opposing opinion of someone with a bigger voice?
It's been said as a private platform, Youtube can do whatever they'd like.in terms of censorship. However if Google runs the ads all across the internet, how would their censorship be considered a fair practice under federal law? It's been said "if you don't like it, create your own platform."
Okay, even if the mass of the internet came together to collect the funds needed to host the space needed for an unlimited upload platform, it doesn't automatically compare. For example, creators don't get seen unless you already know about them and businesses have no one else to advertise to.
The best way to explain this concept is to imagine Youtube as an island. If you don't like the rules of their island, you can leave and buy your own island.
Okay, but islands are expensive and even if I buy my own island, I'm still alone on my island. I don't need an island, I just want a banner on that island because all of the people are already on that island. If you burn my banner and kick me off the island, that isn't fair, because I can't talk to those people on that island... even if they want to hear me.
Natural Healthy CBD has been warning others about the impending censorship since last year when their payment processor was shut down and their youtube deleted. They knew it was only time before it would begin happening to others but luckily, people have begun to notice the island starting itself on fire.
Natural Healthy CBD (@CBDHealthy on twitter) has always been a compete together not against each other platform. If you are a hardworking, lab tested CBD hemp provider they will allow you a chance to sell with their platform with proper lab testing, which can be rather lucrative, which is why they're often partnered and silenced first. Platforms find concern with businesses that stand for free speech, especially those as connected with as many influencers, celebrities, and businesses as Natural Healthy. That said, now that their facebook and their brand Hemperpedic's facebook has been deleted along with their main instagram, which means it's about to happen to all of us again.
Sadly it's been happening as seen in this article on the Free Thought Project:
Because government is the antithesis to freedom, industrial hemp has been banned nationwide since 1937 ostensibly due to the plant’s similarities to marijuana. Many have speculated that this move was also due to the fact that cannabis is in direct competition with the pharmaceutical industry by providing far safer alternative treatments as wel. However, all this changed this month after President Donald Trump signed the Agriculture Improvement act of 2018, legalizing industrial hemp on a national scale.
Industrial hemp is once again legal in all 50 states but its legalization has set off a new disturbing trend. In a move that appears to be a give away to big pharma, Facebook has begun banning hemp pages.
Just as the farm bill was passed by the House and Senate earlier this month, the page for hemp grower “Franny’s Farmacy” was banned.
“We had that up for about the first month, got a few thousand followers, it was great, it was really driving sales, then it disappeared,” co-owner Franny Tacy said.
The reason Facebook gave them for banning their hemp page was utterly bogus too. The social media giant claimed that Franny was “Promoting the sale of prescription pharmaceuticals.”
“Being an ex-pharmaceutical rep, there is no way we posted anything that violates Facebook’s terms of service,” says Tacy. “We make no claims, we make no recommendations … but we do use the words hemp and CBD and those seem to be becoming trigger words as well.”
Days after being banned, Franny started a new page which began amassing new followers, but after just four days, it was taken down too. This time, Facebook accused Franny and Jeff Tacy of “encouraging drug use.” They sell no drugs whatsoever.
But Franny’s hemp page was not the only victim to Facebook’s give away to the pharmaceutical industry in the name of suppressing the legal sale of hemp. This week, the page for the Carolina Hemp Company was also unpublished. they were given the exact same reason: “promoting the sale of prescription pharmaceuticals.”
Page admin Brian Bullman noted that they have never made any claims which could be interpreted as such. What’s more is the fact that they are a hemp company — not a pharmaceutical company — and they sell no pharmaceuticals at all.
“The stated reason should be of concern,” Bullman wrote. “Our curators do an exceptional job of making sure our content is clean and void of claims. CHC also tends to sell mostly non-isolate products not only due to the superior performance, but also to avoid the possibility of infringing on a pharmaceutical model under the current unfolding conditions as stated by the FDA’S non-binding statement/interpretation.”
Highlighting the sheer insanity of Facebook’s bogus claims is the fact that pages like Pfizer — who actually do promote the use of dangerous pharmaceuticals — are still thriving. For those who may be unaware, Pfizer is the company behind the drug Chantix (prescribed to people to quit smoking) which has been shown by the FDA to have caused thousands of serious injuries and dozens of deaths. Meanwhile, no one in the history of cannabis has ever died from its use.
But Pfizer’s ability to promote deadly drugs on Facebook’s platform — while those who promote hemp are banned — should come as no surprise to those who have been paying attention. As TFTP reported in October, after we were banned, Facebook joined with the Atlantic Council which is directly funded and made up of groups tied to the pharmaceutical industry as well as the military industrial complex, and even government itself.
In fact, Pfizer’s Director for Advocacy and Professional Relations, Mia Masten, is a member.
As Facebook continues to crackdown on folks who promote peace, healthy lifestyles, and sustainable alternatives to deadly medicines, they are showing their true colors — as well as their true masters. To those who don’t know how deep the Atlantic Council’s tentacles reach into all things tyranny, war, and corporatocracy, below is an eye opening short video that explains it.
As TFTP previously reported, in May, after Americans were successfully whipped into a tizzy of Russian hacking and meddling, along with the fake news hysteria, the Americans begging for censorship craze came to a head when Facebook partnered with the Atlantic Council.
Facebook announced that it partnered with the arm of the council, known as the Digital Forensic Research Lab that was brought on to help the social media behemoth with “real-time insights and updates on emerging threats and disinformation campaigns from around the world.”
Apparently, Free Thought Project was one of those threats and now the hemp industry is too.
Facebook partnered with the Atlantic Council, so what, right? They can do whatever they want and hire outside third parties to help them police the platform they own, right? Yes, this is correct. However, the Atlantic Council is funded by government which makes this move especially insidious.
The Atlantic Council is the group that NATO uses to whitewash wars and foster hatred toward Russia, which in turn allows them to continue to justify themselves. It’s funded by arms manufacturers like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing. It is also funded by billionaire oligarchs like the Ukraine’s Victor Pinchuk and Saudi billionaire Bahaa Hariri.
The list goes on. The highly unethical HSBC group — who has been caught numerous times laundering money for cartels and terrorists — is listed as one of their top donors. They are also funded by the pharmaceutical industry, Google, the United States, the US Army, and the Airforce.
The “think tank” Facebook partnered with to make decisions on who they censor is directly funded by multiple state actors — including the United States — which voids any and all claims that Facebook is a wholly “private actor.”
Daniel McAdams@DanielLMcAdamsReplying to @caitoz @InmanAlex
The entity that is making censorship decisions for Facebook, as publicly announced, is the Atlantic Council, a partly US government-funded entity. At what point will the extremely tight ties between these companies and the US government end the "they are private" argument?
Is this a private entity? pic.twitter.com/5oGABYjMqz
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It gets worse.
The Atlantic Council wields massive influence over mainstream media too, which is why when this partnership was announced, no one in the mainstream press pointed it out as the Orwellian idea that it is. Instead, headlines such as “US think tank’s tiny lab helps Facebook battle fake social media(Reuters)” and “Facebook partners with Atlantic Council to improve election security (The Hill)” were put out to spin the fact that a NATO propaganda arm is now censoring the information Americans see on Facebook.
They have even been caught engaging in the creation of actual fake news and no one in the mainstream has called them out on it.
As Bryan MacDonald so aptly noted, some of the stuff the Atlantic Council itself gets away with serves to show its power over the mainstream media. For instance, when Ben Nimmo, a one-time NATO press officer, and Atlantic Council board member, himself ludicrously insisted grammar mistakes were “proof” that social media users critical of NATO were paid Kremlin trolls, and later when he smeared a British man by labeling him a Russian bot, the popular press didn’t bother to question whether he was a fit and proper person for Facebook to engage as a censor. Even after the victim appeared on Sky News to prove he was a real person. Thus, what should have been a warning of the dangers of DFR Lab was essentially ignored.
At the time, Nimmo, instead of apologizing, wrote “interesting to see the real face of Ian56789, rather than the David Gandy one, at last (referring to his Twitter avatar). Not a troll factory account. Rather, a pro-Kremlin troll(definition based on [sic] use of someone else’s picture, systematic use of Kremlin narratives, and repetitive abusive behaviour),”
WikiLeaks was the sole voice of reason, and challenged the lobbyist. “You literally produced, with money from weapons companies and dictatorships, a fake news story that spread all over the world, defaming a very British retiree, who wants to reduce arms company profits, as a Kremlin bot,” they wrote. “So who’s the paid troll?”
Ben Nimmo✔@benimmoInteresting to see the real face of Ian56789, rather than the David Gandy one, at last.
Not a troll factory account. Rather, a pro-Kremlin troll (definition based on use of someone else's picture, systematic use of Kremlin narratives, and repetitive abusive behaviour).
You literally produced, with money from weapons companies and dictatorships, a fake news story that spread all over the world, defaming a very British retiree, who wants to reduce arms company profits, as a Kremlin bot. So who's the paid troll?
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This is the group Facebook is now taking direction from in regard to who is allowed to post information on their platform. The Atlantic Council has been proven to create fake news to slander people who have an antiwar stance in an effort to keep their pro-war weapons companies in the black. It is utter insanity. However, in today’s information war, it is to be expected.
However, unless we fight back in the form of sharing information deemed “wrong think” by the censors, this problem will only continue to get worse. We must continue to alert our fellow humans to this censorship before it becomes the norm. We must use this recent purge as our Streisand moment and turn this massive and blatant act of censorship around as a tool to expose the tyrants behind it.
So we pose the question to you... are you scared yet? Is it time to work together? Hemp Hookahzzz and CBDinstead think so. They've used this opportunity to show what the community is made of by joining Natural Healthy to spread the news to their fellow hemp accounts. Now THAT is what the media should be made of!
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