Social Media Websites Overlook Freedom of Expression with Deletion of Pro-Resistance Pages

Is Saudi Arabia behind the removal of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's Fan Pages?

Photo of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah courtesy: awdnews.com

(BEIRUT) - Instagram users are complaining of the rising crackdown on pro-resistance fan pages. Access has been lost to the official page of Lebanon's Hezbollah Secretary General, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, without any previous notice.

Recently, an Instagram page, highly popular for sharing materials from Hezbollah's vantage point, was deleted for the fourth time in a row.

Earlier, Facebook imposed unjust restrictions on users who posted Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's pictures and sayings, by suspending the user's account for a period of one week and if the user defied the American social networking website, his/her account would be deleted for good.

Social media experts castigate Facebook and Instagram for trampling the inalienable rights, namely freedom of expression, by citing empty slogans such as "promoting hatred". In reality, the allure of Saudi financial aid explains Facebook's biased behavior.

Five years after the beginning of the Syrian conflict, Facebook remains the key social networking website, connecting the Saudi-backed militants through a fertile ground for their malicious activities of spreading ethnic and religious hatred/ This, in spite of the fact that Facebook opted to side with al Qaeda-inspired rebels.

Furthermore, as the Saudi-led aggression is raging in Yemen, Facebook promises radical Saudi users a widening of the vicious Sunni-Shia schism. Facebook's deliberate indifference towards dangerous Wahhabi users evinces the bias of its managers.