It was bound to happen.  The GodArchy page has run afoul of the Facebook police.

Here is the offending meme.

The meme made the circuits after Jeffery Epstein killed himself. Obviously, it references the propensity for people in the Clintons’ sphere to end up dead.

It’s OK. You can admit it. It’s funny.

But Facebook algorithms don’t have a sense of humor. In fact, they have no sense at all. Facebook considers this a promotion of “self-harm.” Facebook even provided me with a link to “get help” when they removed the meme from the GodArchy page.

Not only did they take down the post, but they also restricted the GodArchy page reach and put some restrictions on my personal account. And as you can see, GodArchy is in danger of getting “unpublished.”

Facebook is on the verge of becoming unusable. The platform is no longer a place to freely share your views with the world. It has become a massive gaslighting operation designed to push everybody into a uniform hive of groupthink. If you post something slightly outside what it defines as acceptable “norms,” you’ll be greeted with “fact-cheks” and warnings tags. More serious dissenting voices get suppressed, silenced, and ultimately de-platformed.

It should come as no shock that the Facebook worldview by and large corresponds with the government’s worldview.

Yeah, yeah, I know Facebook is a private company and it can limit speech as it pleases. (Ignoring for the moment that there is growing evidence that the feds and Facebook are working together to suppress information. ) Regardless, censorship is censorship whether enforced by governments or private entities.

And it is always dangerous to your liberty.

Philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote extensively about censorship in his treatise “On Liberty.” He asserted that “freedom of opinion, and freedom of the expression of opinion” are necessary for “the mental well-being of mankind (on which all their other well-being depends).”

Mill offered four grounds supporting absolute freedom of expression.

“First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

“Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

“Thirdly, even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds

“And not only this, but, fourthly, the meaning of the doctrine itself will be in danger of being lost, or enfeebled, and deprived of its vital effect on the character and conduct: the dogma becoming a mere formal profession, inefficacious for good, but cumbering the ground, and preventing the growth of any real and heartfelt conviction from reason or personal experience.”

If you want liberty, you need to maintain freedom of expression. All people need to be able to express their opinions – even if the majority perceives that opinion as “extremist content” to borrow a phrase.

When society fails to tolerate freedom of expression, hard tyranny isn’t far behind.

And that’s where we’re heading. First, it’s social media. Next, it’s government. The problem isn’t who is doing the censoring. The problem is that censorship is happening.

And it is happening.

Just look around you.

There are still good ways to bypass the gatekeepers. Trying to follow GodArchy on social media isn’t going to cut it. I will maintain a presence on Facebook, Twitter and MeWe as long as I can. But you can cut out the social media middleman by subscribing to the GodArchy email list. I am going to start publishing weekly newsletters with the latest posts and podcasts. You will see the signup form on the side of this page.