When we were kids, we were always told to “play fair,” not to cheat. We were taught the rules apply to everyone. Except … there were cheaters.
Now, as we have matured, the cheaters have as well. These are the folks that make up their own opinions, including half-truths or no-truths and post online their gospel.
A classic example is Nextdoor. If your thoughts, ideas or comments don’t line up and agree with their leads or moderators “truths,” your posts are removed! That is correct. You may live next door but unless your ideas reflect Nextdoor ideas, you are dog meat!!!
Nextdoor is supposed to be a platform for sharing observations, ideas and opinions. They hold themselves out as a community sounding board. However, it appears the only sound they like is the one they promote.
Apparently, the only opinions allowed are ones that align with their interpretation of “free speech.” The arbiters of this “free speech” happen to be Mayor Lisa Gillmor’s political allies, assigned the positions of Nextdoor Leads and Moderators.
The Weekly’s staff apparently isn’t saying anything good. In the past month, posts linked to our Silicon Valley Voice stories have been pulled from Nextdoor, marked as spam or hate speech. Outrageous!
These alleged “spam” stories include one about two generations of Fremont High School athletes, and another about a high school student representative to Santa Clara Unified school board.
Gillmor’s “spam” gestapo has even blocked the community calendar, which was publicizing the Santa Clara Players’ Hound of the Baskervilles, Great America’s Oktoberfest, and Sunnyvale Public Safety’s Pancake Breakfast.
Oh, and also Santa Clara’s farmer’s market.
In 2020, Gillmor’s band of bullies got her political opponents banned from Nextdoor. And guess what for? You guessed it, bullying.
This “bullying” consisted of defending themselves against scurrilous attacks and lies published by Gillmor’s chief bully, Robert Haugh, and promoted by the rest of Gillmor’s gang.
This is not about political reporting. Nextdoor — as far as we know — has never blocked any of Haugh’s posts linking to his own outrageous, bigoted and degrading opinion posts. Neither has Nextdoor blocked the reposting of these links.
Sources, who asked not to be named for fear of revenge from Gillmor’s Nextdoor bully band, told us that our posts were being reported because we carry candidate advertising on our website. They don’t want people to see those ads. This would be defensible if links to other publications with political advertising were reported as spam and blocked. They are not.
History has proven that tyrants and dictators make their first move by silencing the “Free Press.”
Stay informed.
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