2nd Amendment reporter Stephen Gutowski has a must-read piece over at the Free Beacon on the censorship of CodeIsFreeSpeech.com, a coalition of gun-rights groups that published the now infamous 3D-gun design files.
Gutowski called the censorship of the group by tech giants Amazon and Facebook “far more aggressive than anything we’ve seen with Alex Jones:
The attempted censorship of a website run by a coalition of gun rights groups is far more aggressive than anything we've seen with Alex Jones. Amazon took down their hosting. Facebook has blocked any post with a link to the site in it. https://t.co/UdlL8NmZE7
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) August 9, 2018
Facebook is reportedly “removing all content associated with [CodeIsFreeSpeech.com] from their platform”:
Here's what happens if you try to share https://t.co/Wf1g4pxhld on Facebook. Facebook told me they are removing all content associated with the site from their platform. pic.twitter.com/mIYXXmzvWG
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) August 9, 2018
Facebook says the code “violates their community standards”:
Facebook told me they are blocking links to https://t.co/GJ3YC3Pavu because it violates their community standards but I couldn't find one it violates and they wouldn't answer any of my follow up questions. https://t.co/UdlL8NmZE7
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) August 9, 2018
But the group has not even been contacted by the government over the designs:
The gun rights groups behind https://t.co/GJ3YC3Pavu told me they have not been contacted by the State Department or any other government officials over their publishing of gun designs. https://t.co/UdlL8NmZE7
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) August 9, 2018
And when Facebook did respond to Gutowski, it’s still lacking:
Facebook sent me a link to this section of their community standards when they told me they are blocking links to https://t.co/GJ3YC3Pavu but I don't see how posting links to the site violates it. https://t.co/Xot3PWXb8Z pic.twitter.com/4WTEqRDQrZ
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) August 9, 2018
Read his entire piece here.
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