Tommy Robinson was banned by Facebook and Instagram — and “their reasoning should terrify you”
This is how you unperson someone in 2019. The government has learned something in the past decade. Now it uses the internet to do its censoring. No need for a messy trial. No need for interrogations that can be recorded, or appealed. Just have a friend at Facebook push a button. And it’s done.
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This is how you unperson someone in 2019. The government has learned something in the past decade. Now it uses the internet to do its censoring. No need for a messy trial. No need for interrogations that can be recorded, or appealed. Just have a friend at Facebook push a button. And it’s done.