Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms David Icke kicked of Facebook

There have always been gullible fools a plenty.
Social media just makes it easier for them to expose themselves.
One reason why I keep to this place.

Same here. This is the only forum I use* because, as we know, it is full of wise advice and polite humour . What amazes me how people are so ready to declare their hateful prejudices, not to mention their ignorance of grammar and spelling.

*Not quite true as I very occasionally post replies on YouTube (as Sir Ron Norris or Dr Agnes Sengard - palindromes; clever, eh? ) complaining at those who use appalling language. I actually received an apology a few weeks ago. The one-man campaign continues...
Sorry - verging on thread-drift here. I think it's time for a large V&T

Clever pseudonyms Saint Eve (Your surname isn't Evets by any chance?)

John

A man, a plan, a canal. Suez.

I don’t like the idea of banning people for what they say.

I tend to agree with NICK55....with a caveat... if people cannot, or will not, moderate their language... and insist of spreading hate, misinformation, or outright lies... then they should be subject to some censorship. The challenge is who decides what is outrageous and inappropriate?

I'm not spending any time looking into it but he has been coming up with crazy conspiracy theories for decades - something about giant alien lizards (who could be a proxy for jews)who are using a secret elite group including the Royal Family to control the world or something similar - or am I making it up?

Just a reminder that Facebook is a prvately owned platform that we are permitted to use for no charge. As a result, they get to make the rules about what gets published and what doesn't. We get to make the choice to use it, or not.

As is our own TM and maintains a very open self policing policy, rather sadly the For Sale and Wanted section is always abused (unrelated comments) and now faces closure unless a little more restraint is shown.

We all love a good thread drift but not on that one.

Youtube have deleted his account there too now it seems.

Absolutely. However the vast majority of FB users ( and you tube , twitter , insta etc ) dont realise that these companies have the power to manipulate data and to target ads on their site biased to their own agenda. Remember these platforms have absolutely huge young users which are perhaps more easily manipulated. They silence people that that dont conform. So what happens is, the users are fed info biased to the owners agenda and it become 'the norm' Its very Orwellian, you MUST conform.

People are silenced all the time on FB and twitter etc for holding a different view. Then what happens we have an echo chamber were nothing gets discussed or argued out or reasoned. I dont follow Icke and I haven't seen his posts but I bet there were as many replies to his posts making significant counter arguments to his claims?

So yes, it is a private company but people should be more well informed how these companies run their business before deciding to use it or not.

I stopped using FB for personal use years ago as I was getting fed up of stupid pictures of puppies, stupid memes, pictures of peoples tea and kids and families I didnt give a poop about. Once FB is ditched its like a visit to the loo after a curry, just an overwhelming feeling of relief