Medium have decided, without warning, to make my blog ‘unavailable’
On Tuesday ‘Agatha’ from Medium
Trust & Safety sent me a curt email informing me that my Medium.com account was ‘in
violation of our rules’, and my profile and posts would no longer be
publicly available. My offences were three fold:
1. Targeted harassment
2. Related conduct
3. Multiple copyright violations
It was a
mystery that Agatha’s more famous namesake, Ms Christie, would have had
difficulty solving. What exactly had I done wrong?
I was given no
information as to why I had incurred their corporate wrath. I assume that what
Medium’s Agatha meant by ‘targeted harassment’ is the exposes I have
done on a group of Zionist fascists who make it their business to disrupt
pro-Palestinian meetings.
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| The original post that led to a demand I edit a post on Zionist fascists to remove the names |
My reason for
believing this is because on December 11th 2017 I received an email
from Gerald, also from Medium’s Trust and Safety, telling me that my post
on the above fascists was suspended because ‘Medium’s
Rules don’t allow posts that name specific private individuals for
the purpose of targeted harassment or shaming:
Presumably
anything that mentions Hitler, Stalin, Trump or Netanyahu will also fall foul
of this rule. Anyone who dares suggest
that Ms Strong and Stable is anything but is in danger of having their posting
privileges withdrawn. This is an attack
on investigative journalism. So all
their crap about ‘social journalism’ is just that. Meandering and ponderous articles are fine
but try uncovering foul deeds, tricksters, shysters, fascists and assorted
thugs and Media’s Corporate Admen will be onto you like a flash.
Gerald
informed me that ‘We don't allow the naming of specific individuals,
especially where doing so is likely to incite or foster further harassment,
threats, and violence.’ This is Corporate Newspeak.
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| I suspect the post that led to my removal was the bottom one on the Zionist friends of Tommy Robinson - a touchy subject for our fearless heroes of the fight against 'antisemitism' |
The purpose of
my post
which can be accessed here
was not to shame these people, because clearly they are beyond shame, but to
warn people about their violent and criminal nature. My exposes were a defence
of free speech for supporters of Palestine and opponents of Zionism. But free
speech is not something that you will find written into the corporate philosophy
or their profit agenda. Anti-fascism is certainly a no no.
Gerald ‘asked’
me to ‘please remove all personally identifying information in your
post, including the names of private individuals, private communications, their
place of business, or any other identifiable information.’
And just in
case the message didn’t get through, Gerald made it clear that this wasn’t
really a request since ‘The post is now suspended until you can make these
edits.’
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| I averaged about 10,000 hits a month, about 10% of those on Blogspot |
I wrote back to Gerald
refusing his ‘request’ and explaining that ‘It is not possible to delete the
identity of those named because the post would be meaningless’. I asked
Medium to reconsider their decision because ‘the purpose of exposing these
individuals is not to harass them but to ensure that people who are harassed
by them know who they are and can take preventive measures.’
And then I
heard absolutely nothing. Not only that but to my knowledge the post itself was
still publicly available although in retrospect it may be that only I could see
it.
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| The gang of Zionists whose job it is to break up meetings and prevent free speech were livid at my expose |
The other accusations
that Aunty Agatha levelled such as ‘Related conduct’ are gibberish and
meaningless. Multiple copyright violations are likewise meaningless. All blogs
use photos from other sites and that includes the mainstream press which has
used my own blog photographs repeatedly with only a bare acknowledgement. On the
one occasion anyone has complained of such a violation, a piece of artwork, I
removed it forthwith.
None of these
allegations are particularised and that is because this is a political decision
not an informed or neutral decision. I was given no notice whatsoever of
‘Agatha’s’ decision nor asked to comment on specific allegations. The reasons
for it remain somewhat of a mystery that her more famous namesake would
probably be hard put to solve!
I make no
apologies for having exposed Hoffman and his merry crew of Zionist disrupters,
neo-Nazis and fascist troublemakers. An example of how my work has been put to
good use is the following.
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| Conway Hall on August 21st was packed to the rafters. Zionists who had hoped to disrupt the meeting were left kicking their heels outside - my blog has helped identify known fascists like Jonathan Hoffman and his crewe |
On August 21st
hundreds of people gathered at a meeting at London’s Conway Hall to
hear a range of speakers such as Tariq Ali, Lindsey German, PSC Director Ben
Jamal, Rob Ferguson, Richard Kuper of JVL, Salma Karmi-Ayyoub and Huda Elmi.
The title of the meeting was to defend Jeremy Corbyn and rebut the
lie of anti-Semitism.
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| Jonathan Hoffman, who imagines he is a male version of Margaret Hodge, and his accomplice, taxi driver Harvey Garfield were livid - the far-Right Tommy Robinson supporting Campaign for Truth is threatening libel!! |
The Zionist
fascists that I had exposed, led by the most notorious of them all, Jonathan
Hoffman (who has been banned by Amnesty International from their premises),
planned to try and disrupt the meeting. However because the blogs that I have
produced are now being used to identify Zionist troublemakers Hoffman was
excluded. He and fellow fascist, Harvey Garfield, bitterly protested that
Hoffman had been unable to gain entry and Garfield had been kept under
surveillance after having given a false name.
None of this
of course will make any impression on Medium. Identifying neo-Nazis and their
Zionist sympathisers cuts no ice with Medium, which like all corporations is in
business to make a profit. Everything else, ‘mission statements’ included is is
just PR gloss.
Quite
graciously I was told that my work would remain accessible to me and could be
exported but would appear as unavailable to others.
As a final
flourish I was informed that my Medium membership, if I had one, would be cancelled
and any remaining funds would be returned to me. Fortunately I had enough sense not to join!
I first began
blogging on Medium in November 2016 with a post Momentum’s Leadership Responds at
last to Critics of the Removal of Jackie Walker as Vice-Chair of Momentum
Ironically, on
5th July 2018 I received a post from Medium headed ‘GREAT WORK, TONY
GREENSTEIN - Congratulations! You are now a top writer in Racism.’ I
was advised that ‘This milestone will appear on your profile and on the Racism tag page’. and that ‘To retain your status,
just keep publishing great stories tagged Racism.’
Well that is
exactly what I did! I published some
great stories identifying Zionist Fascists who were causing mayhem in London
with their attacks on Palestinian meetings and demonstrations such as one on Who are Tommy Robinson’s Zionist Supporters. And
it is for that reason I have now been banned.
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| Not quite as open as it makes out |
MEDIUM is described
as an online publishing
platform which was launched in August 2012. It is
owned by A Medium Corporation. Wikipedia describe it as an example of social journalism, but I think a
better description would be Corporate Publishing masquerading as social
journalism.
Like many such
organisations Medium don’t make it easy to contact them by email. I have a few
emails that I have garnered.
I would
therefore ask people to bombard them with links to this blog and your comments
about their behaviour in censoring me. Please
write to yourfriends@medium.com,
yourfriends@medium.zendesk.com,
support@medium.com and abuse@medium.com. Oh and do please be polite!
Also
tweet the links to this blog with an appropriate message to @medium @mediumsupport @medium
design @mediumeng
And although
you can’t post on Medium’s Facebook page
you can insert a link to this blog on the comments underneath the puff pieces
by Medium. Thank you.
Tony Greenstein
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