
Facebook censures a U.S. teacher for posting an opinion with facts and links but does nothing to stop Russia from meddling in our elections and our democracy.
Facebook blocked me.
What did I do?
Did I post Russian-sponsored propaganda?
Nyet.
Did I post Nazi or racist memes?
Nein.
Did I post fraudulent or debunked accounts of factual events?
No.
So what did I do?
I took that opinion and wrote about it. I backed it up with facts, analogies, literary references and examples from my own experience as a classroom teacher in public school.
I took all that, wrote it up in a blog called “The False Paradise of School Privatization,” and posted it on Facebook.
It was the same kind of thing I do several times a week.
Write a blog. Post it on various Facebook pages and on Twitter.
And wait to see if anyone reads it.
But this time – BOOM!
I hadn’t even posted it to a handful of pages before…
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