This initiative is already in full swing: in mid-February, traffic to Jihad Watch from Facebook dropped suddenly by 90% and has never recovered. We do not post any “explicit, hateful and provocative material that incites violence and terrorism,” but Facebook is acting as judge, jury and executioner in all this. There is no appeal and no recourse. This is at heart a Sharia endeavor, an Islamic supremacist attempt to compel the West to adopt Sharia blasphemy laws forbidding criticism of Islam, and it’s working well.

How did Joel Kaplan, a Western liberal, feel while sitting there in Islamabad with Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, listening to Khan tell him about “the madness unleashed against Islam and holy personalities in the name of freedom of expression”? Does Kaplan know or care about the importance of the freedom of expression to free society? Did he feel any sense of irony in having gone into a business dedicated to communication and now having traveled halfway around the world to assure an official of one of the most illiberal governments on earth that his company would do all it could to restrict communication?

Or was he just thinking about the bottom line, and when his flight out was?

“We’ll drop anti-Islam input, Facebook tells Pak,” by Tariq Butt, Gulf Today, July 9, 2017 (thanks to Lookmann):