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Social Networks Censoring Obama Joker Images
"Jokerbama" deemed to be in same category
as "nude/sexually explicit/violence" by Myspace
Safety & Security team
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Infowars has received word that social networking website Myspace
is removing the now iconic image of Obama as The Joker from
users' pages and photo albums, citing it as "offensive".
Several people have contacted us to complain that
Myspace is effectively censoring their political views by removing
their images.
The following comment comes to us from Myspace
user xthemonsterx:
I just attempted to post the Obama Fascism picture
on myspace, as well as the image used in his campaign with
the word hype instead of hope. I got sent back a message saying
the pictures wouldn't be posted because they were "offensive".
Another Myspace user, Adam, sent us details of
how myspace had deleted some of his Obama Joker images, but
not others. Two of Adam's Joker images that were deleted carried
the overtly political messages "Don't think, be quiet"
and "Don't drink tea, drink Kool Aid".
Yet, according to Adam, the same image of Obama
as The Joker, with the apolitical message "Quit clowning
around!!!!!" was left untouched by Myspace.
Adam sent us the following screenshot of a message
Myspace sent to his inbox explaining why his images had been
pulled and threatening to completely delete his account:
Related
Reading: Obama as Joker Explained
More people have complained of the same clampdown
on the images by the Rupert Murdoch owned company.
"its in your photo album thats getting jacked."
writes another Myspace user, 'Eternal Vigilance'.
"For example, they keep changing my display
pic from my 'two jokers' picture (Obama and Bush as the Joker)
to my very 1st pic in my 1st photo album."
'Eternal Vigilance' sent us a screen shot of the
same message from Myspace Safety & Security:
Another user with the moniker 'HappySunshineRaysOfDeath'
sent us the following screenshot of the message he received
from myspace when attempting to upload the Obama Joker image
to his photo album:
(Article continues below)
Judging by these messages it would seem that Myspace
has deemed the "Jokerbama" image adorned with political
messages to be in some way dangerous, grouping it in the same
category as "nude/sexually explicit/violence" images.
At this time attempts to contact Myspace on this
issue have gone unanswered.
The news comes in the wake of the revelation that
the original
source of the image was also censored.
The designer of the image, 20-year-old college
student Firas Alkhateeb from Chicago, found that after his image
was viewed over 20,000 times on Yahoo owned picture networking
site Flickr, it was removed along with every comment posted
under the image by Flickr users.
Flickr previously censored criticism of Obama
when they deleted
the entire account and photostream of user Shepherd Johnson
owing to comments he posted on the official White House photostream.
The comments were in no way offensive, were polite and well
written, and merely criticised the president's decision to withhold
photographs of detainee prison abuse. The San
Francisco Chronicle also picked up the story.
Flickr originally responded by implying that Johnson
had been flagged by other Flickr users and had infringed their
guidelines for “safe” viewing. Later the company
also suggested that Johnson had been removed from the community
for posting a photo of prisoner detainee abuse and "spamming"
the website.
As we detailed
in our report earlier this week, the revelation
that the creator of the Jokerbama is a politically independent
Muslim-American, and not a Republican white supremacist as the
establishment left had hoped, puts the final nail in the coffin
of the smear that the poster is in any way intended as racist.
This chilling of free speech and political parody
emphasizes the importance of our continuing effort to bring
awareness to the Jokerbama image through Alex
Jones' poster competition.
Has Myspace or any other social network site removed
your Jokerbama images? If so please email all the details to
admin@infowars.net.
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