Meet the Censored: CJ Hopkins, Critic of the "New Normal"

Matt Taibbi, Racket News, May 2021

Matt Taibbi interviewed me in May 2021 (back when Racket News was still TK/News), after the Facebook censors went ballistic on me, and many of my Facebook “friends,” because of a Facebook post satirizing the official New Normal propaganda campaign here in Germany. I described the incident for Matt …

MT/TK: What stories have you been prevented from sharing on the Internet?

Hopkins: Perhaps the most dramatic example was the censorship of a Facebook post featuring a photo of a “New Normal” art exhibit in Germany where the artist projected “Vaccination = Freedom” on one of those gigantic TV towers that we have here. Of course, that evoked the infamous “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign over the gates of Auschwitz, which I noted in my post (i.e., “Not quite 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' but close enough”). Facebook prevented people from sharing the post, and, when they inquired about why, sent them this warning: “Your post goes against our Community Standards on dangerous individuals and organizations ... we don't allow symbols or support of dangerous individuals or organizations on Facebook. We define dangerous as things like terrorist activity, organized hate or violence, mass or serial murder, human trafficking, criminal or harmful activity.” Many people who tried to share the post had their accounts suspended or restricted. I covered this in detail in one of my Consent Factory columns, The New Normal “Reality” Police.”

The interview is archived here at Racket News.