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Facebook Bans St. Augustine Quote as 'Hate Speech'

by John Ellis

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The Director of Community Engagements for Massachusetts Citizens for Life claims that Facebook has labeled a quote by St. Augustine as hate speech. In a blog post, Domenico Bettinelli wrote, "Facebook has repeatedly banned a quote from St. Augustine every time I’ve posted it. And it’s not some fire and brimstone 'Sinners are going to hell!' quote, but in fact, quite the opposite."

Pulled from one of St. Augustine's homilies included in the Roman Catholic Church's official liturgical books, the offending quote is this:

 

Let us never assume that if we live good lives we will be without sin; our lives should be praised only when we continue to beg for pardon. But men are hopeless creatures, and the less they concentrate on their own sins, the more interested they become in the sins of others. They seek to criticize, not to correct. Unable to excuse themselves, they are ready to accuse others.
 
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One of the interesting things about all this is found in Bettinelli's conclusion, in which he confesses:

 

As a conservative, I’m biased against government intervention into free enterprise. But I also recognize that sometimes regulation and legislation are necessary to protect the rights of citizens against the agendas of certain groups of people or corporations. I’m starting to lean toward the necessity of the US government regulating social media firms as public utilities. Because Big Brother isn’t just from the government any more.

 

That conclusion is where I'm at. It's becoming harder to ignore the evidence that Facebook is deliberately shutting conservative Christian voices out of the public dialogue. 

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8 minutes ago, B-Man said:

Let us never assume that if we live good lives we will be without sin; our lives should be praised only when we continue to beg for pardon. But men are hopeless creatures, and the less they concentrate on their own sins, the more interested they become in the sins of others. They seek to criticize, not to correct. Unable to excuse themselves, they are ready to accuse others.

 

Post reported to SDS as hate speech.

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Media, biased! 

Scientists? Biased!! 

FBI, biased!! 

Courts? Biased!! 

 

The internet?? Yes, even the internet is against you guys, lol. 

 

Conservative victimization is a scream! We are being picked on, blah blah! 

 

 

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28 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

Facebook Bans St. Augustine Quote as 'Hate Speech'

by John Ellis

Original Article

 

The Director of Community Engagements for Massachusetts Citizens for Life claims that Facebook has labeled a quote by St. Augustine as hate speech. In a blog post, Domenico Bettinelli wrote, "Facebook has repeatedly banned a quote from St. Augustine every time I’ve posted it. And it’s not some fire and brimstone 'Sinners are going to hell!' quote, but in fact, quite the opposite."

Pulled from one of St. Augustine's homilies included in the Roman Catholic Church's official liturgical books, the offending quote is this:

 

Let us never assume that if we live good lives we will be without sin; our lives should be praised only when we continue to beg for pardon. But men are hopeless creatures, and the less they concentrate on their own sins, the more interested they become in the sins of others. They seek to criticize, not to correct. Unable to excuse themselves, they are ready to accuse others.
 
{snip}
 

One of the interesting things about all this is found in Bettinelli's conclusion, in which he confesses:

 

As a conservative, I’m biased against government intervention into free enterprise. But I also recognize that sometimes regulation and legislation are necessary to protect the rights of citizens against the agendas of certain groups of people or corporations. I’m starting to lean toward the necessity of the US government regulating social media firms as public utilities. Because Big Brother isn’t just from the government any more.

 

That conclusion is where I'm at. It's becoming harder to ignore the evidence that Facebook is deliberately shutting conservative Christian voices out of the public dialogue. 

I posted this picture to Facebook (from one of your posts) and it was taken down.

 

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2 minutes ago, Koko78 said:

Proving once again that the left can't meme.

My favorite is how they've appropriated TDS and turned it into Trump Defender Syndrome. :lol:

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4 minutes ago, LBSeeBallLBGetBall said:

My favorite is how they've appropriated TDS and turned it into Trump Defender Syndrome. :lol:

 

Can't even be original with acronyms. 

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3 minutes ago, LBSeeBallLBGetBall said:

My favorite is how they've appropriated TDS and turned it into Trump Defender Syndrome. :lol:

 

If the shoe fits ... 

 

How can the people who claim to be the moral majority and support this sexist and bigoted buffoon 100% of the time? 

 

That is the fitting definition of the Trump Defender Syndrome.  

 

 

IF you are that thin skinned ...  Stay off of the Internet 

 

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Just now, KRC said:

 

Can't even be original with acronyms. 

No time for originality. They need to attack him and they need to do it now! He has taken the ability to reason away from so many otherwise reasonable people.

4 minutes ago, ShadyBillsFan said:

 

If the shoe fits ... 

 

How can the people who claim to be the moral majority and support this sexist and bigoted buffoon 100% of the time? 

 

That is the fitting definition of the Trump Defender Syndrome.  

 

 

IF you are that thin skinned ...  Stay off of the Internet 

 

:lol:

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On ‎7‎/‎19‎/‎2019 at 5:41 PM, /dev/null said:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/kazakhstan-government-is-now-intercepting-all-https-traffic/

 

How long til somebody proposes a similar measure in the US.  Because you know, protect against hate speech or something

 

What makes you think we don't do that already?

 

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But what happens next, after the data is processed and catalogued by the agency is little understood. Programs such as Einstein will provide NSA with the ability to read and decipher the content of email messages, any and all messages in real-time.

While DHS claims that “the new program will scrutinize only data going to or from government systems,” the Post reports that a debate has been sparked within the agency over “uncertainty about whether private data can be shielded from unauthorized scrutiny, how much of a role NSA should play and whether the agency’s involvement in warrantless wiretapping during George W. Bush’s presidency would draw controversy.”

 

https://www.globalresearch.ca/big-brother-is-watching-you-pervasive-surveillance-under-obama/14249

 

This was what we were doing 10 years ago.

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