Secular Talk laments that Facebook finally banned QAnon content

Kyle Kulinski, a “left-wing” YouTuber, with a long track record of making overtures to far-right figures, including refusing to call Stefan Molyneux a white supremacist, has consistently downplayed the satanist-fearing QAnon movement.

QAnon is a fascist, anti-Semitic ideology tied to multiple instances of white supremacist terrorism, murder, attempted kidnappings, and arson.

The conspiracy claims, falsely, that President Donald Trump will destroy the “deep state,” for the rampant pedophilia they engage in — while secretly working with then-special counsel Robert Mueller.

Kulinski criticized Twitter in July for banning 7,000 QAnon accounts, and in late September compared Russiagate to QAnon, referring to it as “liberal Benghazi, or liberal birtherism.”

He complained on the October 9 edition of Secular Talk that Facebook accounts loosely-linked to QAnon could get banned.

“Anything even vaguely QAnon-related gets deleted,” Kulinski whined. “They claim recently that the reason why is… the movement has been put on steroids, and they’re out of control with how much fake news they are spreading. And in some instances it puts some people at risk, because you could be the subject of one of the conspiracies and they might wrongly accuse you of being a pedophile or something.”

Kulinski failed to mention that the novel coronavirus helped fuel the QAnon conspiracy theory on social media. An FBI field office in May 2019 termed QAnon as a domestic terror threat.

“And so that could put somebody’s life at risk,” Kulinski continued. “Remember the Pizzagate scandal where they went to the pizza place in Washington D.C. and there was a guy who shot up the place… and that was based off a lot of the conspiracies that he believed. They thought Hillary Clinton was running a child sex-ring out of a pizzeria in Washington D.C..”

“I’ve seen so many articles where the media has basically been prodding Facebook, prodding Twitter, prodding social media outlets, like, oh really, you’re just gonna let this stuff proliferate on your platform?” He asked snarkily. “You’re just gonna let this stuff proliferate on your platform. You’re just gonna let fake news go , you’re just gonna let these conspiracy theories go? Well, you’re gonna swing the election.”

“The other narrative they’ve run with is the election interference narrative where they talk about these Russian troll accounts influencing the election,” Kulinski lamented. “In my opinion, it’s become this go-to thing for lazy corporate media people where anything they don’t like they lump it in with a Russian troll account.”

The broadcaster segued to denying that Russian troll operations are influencing BLM. In September, he dismissed news that that DHS concealed July intelligence bulletin about Russian attacks on Biden’s mental health for two months despite it being true.

“When it comes to the substance of something like QAnon, it’s just not true,” Kulinski added. “They’ve said so many things that are verifiably false. We know they’re false. Anytime you do have a situation where there are direct threats of violence that’s totally fair game to get pulled down because even under our first amendment you’re not allowed to make direct threats of violence. We can be total free speech absolutists but there cannot be direct threats of violence. Again, beside that, I think this goes way too far.”

Kulinski clarifies that violence-inciting content should be banned, but because he doesn’t do research — he never learns that Qanon is a domestic terror threat linked to violence— or ignored the information once it didn’t fit the desired narrative.

The pro-Trump conspiracy caused a man with an AR-15 to block the Hover dam in an armored truck, the 2019 shooter in El Paso, Texas was a QAnon adherent, and another follower brazenly shot and killed Gambino mob boss Francesco Cali at his home in “the Todt Hill section of Staten Island on Wednesday,” the New York Times reported.

The New York Times reported that when Anthony Comello was asked why he killed Cali, Comello charged that the mob boss was part of “the deep state.”

“What if somebody dabbles in the QAnon stuff, but they never libel, or slander anybody, and they never talk about mass executions, or mass arrests?” Kulinski asked, adding “just the fact that if you write QAnon you might get pulled down— you don’t think that’s overkill?”

Later on in the segment — after griping about Chapo Trap House’s ban from Reddit — he began to discuss Sovereign Citizens, glossing over their history of hate.

“There are groups where some members are violent, but the group itself isn’t necessarily violent, like Sovereign Citizens,” Kulinski said. “There have been Sovereign Citizen terrorists who’ve committed attacks, but that doesn’t mean that every sovereign citizen is a terrorist. There’s plenty of Sovereign Citizens who just declare ‘I don’t recognize the legitimacy of the U.S. government, and so I don’t pay my taxes.’”

“They’re plenty of people who are part of the Sovereign Citizen movement who say ‘yeah, I don’t pay my taxes, but I’m not just gonna go hurt anybody,’” Kulinski continued. “What do you do with those people? Is it you’re part of a group of people that have committed attacks so we’re gonna pull you down? See, it makes no sense.”

He warned that “they’re gonna make the [same] argument against antifa. They’re plenty of antifa people who do violence, who burn things down — or who have endorsed violence. What are you gonna do?”

The SPLC identified Sovereign Citizens as an extremist, violent group rooted in racism and anti-Semitism.

From the SPLC’s report: “In the early 1980s, the sovereign citizens movement mostly attracted white supremacists and anti-Semites, mainly because sovereign theories originated in groups that saw Jews as working behind the scenes to manipulate financial institutions and control the government.”

“What about black nationalists?” Kulinski asked. “People who believe in a separate black nation. They have their arguments! Hey, black people were brought here as slaves against their will, and they were never given forty acres and a mule. They deserve it. There are black nationalists who believe in violence, should you pull down them, or do you pull down all black nationalists. There’s just no end to it.”

“Mark Zuckerberg used to make a free speech argument,” Kulinski proclaimed.

Ironic considering Mark Zuckerberg has let clearly partisan right-wing publications like The Daily Caller, Check Your Fact — an offshoot of The Daily Caller — and The Weekly Standard be part of its fact-checking operation under the guise of free speech.

Moreover, Zuckerberk allows prominent right-wing websites to violate Facebook’s rules, and breaks bread privately with conservatives under the pretense of free speech.

In June, Kulinski declared that if Facebook enforced their terms of service against the president, “Trump would be right to take away their liability shield.”