Hi there, today I’m sharing my feelings about the censoring of free Palestine content. Onto the news…
@eye.on.palestine, an account which gives updates on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, has been locked out of Instagram. Meanwhile Joe Biden, a pro-genocide troll who happens to be president of the so-called United States of America, gets to keep his Instagram account. I think if anyone should lose their account it’s the guy questioning how many people died in a genocide, not the account covering the genocide. Yes, Joe Biden did use fancy political speech to say the Palestinians are lying about how many people died because he is just as pro-genocide as Instagram is.
In addition to banning a largely followed account, Instagram has also been shadow banning users who post Pro-Palestinian content. Instagram isn’t alone in this. Other social media platforms including TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube have been accused by users for shadow banning or removing Pro-Palestinian content. Looks like the social media platforms had brunch together and decided, covering genocide is bad but letting the manosphere thrive is good. I mean the purpose of social media is for men to post two-hour videos of how they are being oppressed by women, right? We do live in a pro-genocide manosphere, so this makes sense.
The social media companies are reflecting the bias of western media companies like BBC and CNN which have also blatantly disregarded Palestinian lives. This is because the purpose of western media has always been to maintain white supremacy and give terrible white men jobs. I assume everyone knows the media reinforces white supremacy because Tucker Carlson exists. Even bell hooks in black looks explains, “when most black people in the United States first had the opportunity to look at film and television, they did so fully aware that mass media was a system of knowledge and power reproducing and maintaining white supremacy”.
Social media companies didn’t want Palestinians and other anti-zionists to counter the lies being told by western media because they are capitalist organizations that gain from maintaining white supremacy and colonialism spearheaded by the so-called United States of America. The only way to maintain white supremacy and colonialism is through lies.
Through social media, anti-colonial accounts were able to finally reveal the so-called United States of America and the occupying Israeli government as the genociders they are. Additionally, many people learned western media’s role in supporting colonialism and genocide. Shocker! News outlets owned by capitalists who gain from colonialism support colonialism.
When people saw the truth via accounts like @eye.on.palestine, they learned the truth and went to the streets to demand the liberation of Palestinians. Liberating Palestine means ending imperialism everywhere and that’s just something the so-called United States and Israeli governments can’t have. Much like I just can’t have Oreo Thins, if I’m going to eat an Oreo, I want the whole thing, not some smaller version.
That’s why when the lies of self-defense from the occupying zionist government were revealed, the Israeli government turned off the internet in Gaza. The Israeli government wants to keep the genocide and colonialism going but the government doesn’t want us to know about it because we’ve made it clear we don’t want it. When I say us and we, I mean people who are anti-genocide and anti-colonialism which doesn’t include Amy Schumer.
That’s it for the news, but don’t go yet
Please keep going to protests. Keep talking about settler colonialism because if we don’t Palestine will never be free. Which means we will never be free.
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Another great column, Marcela, thank you!