Joshua Weigert
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1853

Blogger's admin privileges ripped from his blog's Facebook page preventing him from posting any content from it for 24-hours: The Proof Blog was created from scratch by Ken Gulley. Proof self describes its work as "Clear, Reasoned, Conservatism," where Gulley and a few other writers discuss the "Things you do not talk about at the dinner table," specifically referring to politics and religion. One of Proof's bloggers, Joshua Weigert, had his administrative privileges — most importantly the ability to post new content — for Proof's Facebook page taken away from him for 24-hours by Facebook. The move came after Weigert posted a question for Google-owned YouTube from the blog's page. In it he asks YouTube and Google why a video titled "Fuck Christians" has been allowed to remain on the video-sharing platform for years, and doesn't violate any community standards, yet, former President Donald Trump's speech during 2021's CPAC did violate community standards and was promptly taken down just days after it was put up. According to Facebook's notice of violation the post broke Facebook's rules governing "hate Speech and inferiority." In his violating post Weigert also asserted that YouTube would have likely acted differently towards a video that said the same thing about Muslims. "FB’s lackluster algorithm blocked this as hate. When he rebutted, the issue was checked by (presumably a person with a brain) and it was blocked again leading to his ban," said Proof's post about his suspension. "So be careful with calling out hate speech. They’ll flag you for hate speech."                 

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