Substack Bans Christian for His Comment on My Article about the Time I Faced Religious Discrimination at Work.
Was it just a mistake or are we being targeted?
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(I wasn’t aware that the beatitudes were considered spam?)
I had noticed that Philly was marked in my moderation section early this morning but I had appealed it. I soon collapsed due to being up the night before working on an article. When I had woken up I had forgotten about the whole thing and moved on to working on another article.
This comes at a strange time, as the article that Big Philly commented on was my story about being fired for being a Christian. You can click below to read that story.
What’s horrifying to me is that Philly was targeted by the algorithm for preaching the Gospel, while commenting on my story about being discriminated against for being Christian. This raises a lot of questions.
Why would the algorithm mark Philly’s comment as spam when that was the only place that he has posted it? Is the algorithm programmed to ban anyone that says the words “Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness” or perhaps “for theirs is the kingdom of heaven”? And why isn’t someone like the white supremacist, Clarence Wilhelm Spangle banned from spamming?
It wasn’t until I got a notification about this article from Philly;
— that I realized that the appeal wasn’t addressed and Philly had been banned from Notes.
I immediately reached out to Philly and sent out the alarm that Philly had been banned from Substack’s Notes. While Philly had been banned from using the Notes side of Substack (essentially it’s Twitter alternative), Philly’s publication wasn’t affected by the ban. Thank God.
So I reached out to Philly on his article’s comment section and I told him exactly what happened. Safe to say he was less than thrilled. Soon I put together a Note and sent it out.
Not only did I send out this message, I also spammed the hell out of other writers (sorry guys) to see if I will be picked up by moderation. I suppose only time will tell with that. Luckily our appeals went through and Philly was reinstated. Thank the Lord.
This all comes at a strange time though. Soon afterwards my writer’s dashboard along with several other writer’s dashboards went down.
The other day I wrote an article about Elle Griffin and her horrible ideology of Humanism which culminated in the Reign of Terror. I openly rebuked and ridiculed Elle for not knowing anything about what she was talking about.
For those of you that don’t know, Elle Griffin was the one behind the defense of free speech on Substack. With that being said, she is also a hypocrite because she is inspired by Voltaire, a man who actively campaigned to have Catholics censored and the Jesuits kicked out of France (which they were in 1764). She was also the darling of Substack for coming out and saying that they were doing really well with their platform (I’m not saying they aren’t). However, their soft stance to the SAN crowd left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
As I’m writing this I’m starting to think, maybe it wasn’t the algorithm that flagged Philly but someone that actually reported this. Maybe they are going after smaller creators to thin our herd or at least for the time being silence them. Perhaps the SAN people, after having realized that they couldn’t force Substack’s founders to moderate us or that they wouldn’t let them join their moderation teams, maybe they realized that the best way to moderate the masses was to report them from spamming.
What’s next reporting them for hate speech (which this platform actually has provisions for; man my generation is soft), or perhaps they will try to dig up dirt on us and start to #MeToo us.
I’m not quite sure what will happen but I do know that,
and Big Philly could use your support.I know I certainly could as well. Dark days are upon us my brothers and sisters and we will need all the help we can get to fight back the hordes of tyranny. Sure, call me paranoid but it’s happened to me before. In 2012, just after Occupy Wall Street, I was a rising star among political influencers, quickly amassing a couple thousand followers and moving upwards in the political sphere. I know you’re probably thinking “that’s not really influential,” well it was pretty good for a 16 year old that made his account in November of 2011 during Occupy and was banned in January of 2012.
But that’s the thing, it’s not the big accounts the regime goes for, it’s the small ones. That way no one notices until it’s too late. I went on to try and warn people but by then, no one could hear me. It’s like I was screaming into the void. I think
can relate to that. And all of the people around me thought I was paranoid but here we are. 12 years later and everyone knows about the Twitter Files, Zuckerberg saying the FBI asked Facebook to censor people (he agreed to do it), the government collusion, the Biden Admin’s attempt at making a Ministry of Truth. But if it’s happening again on here, how long will it be before I am demonetized and cast into the warp?
I don’t think I’ve ever said much that would get me pegged as a conspiracy theorist, but my instinct is that the banning of the scripture verse was done by a human editor who has an ax to grind against Christians.
This is obviously disturbing, though sadly not terribly surprising, given what we've seen. Thanks for getting the word out about this.