For us, it’s no secret that Facebook has quietly become one of the biggest scams in modern history. It’s been nearly two years since the 2012 elections when we saw our last post go viral. Soon afterward the entire month of October 2012 would disappear from our timeline. I’m sure it had nothing to do with our attempts to expand the debate online and inform voters that they had more than two choices…

Unfortunately, there’s nothing satirical about a so-called “social” network whose stated mission was to make the world more open and connected (later changed to “Give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together”), that has in reality become a massive, anti-social, corporate state surveillance network, providing a wonderful marketing tool and information control mechanism to big businesses and governments around the world.

If you’re not a page owner or administrator you may not yet fully understand the problem — but to make a long story short:

Facebook now systematically hides much of what is posted by the average user or page from our news feeds, including those we have “Liked” or followed, unless someone has paid to “promote” the content.

Add Pay-to-Share suppression on top of all the censorship of whatever speech arbitrarily deemed “inappropriate” and Facebook has itself a system that likely made George Orwell roll over in his grave a few times.

Here’s a collection of screenshots and memes that perhaps better illustrates the nature of what we’re dealing with:

 

Now are you starting to understand why despite having tons of friends and/or followers, hardly anyone likes or shares what you post?

He who controls the information, controls the world.

Have You Signed Our Petition?

Tell Facebook you’re tired of its anti-social speech suppression and unfair pay-to-share by adding your name here, then join the Facebook Users Pages United Against Facebook Speech Suppression Group.

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