There nothing like targeting the biggest fish in a global giant like Meta on charges of suppressing free speech to get a rapid result – and Alexandra Forwood is now back on Facebook after an outcry over her suspension driven by the lamentable Lynda Tabuya, the Coalition’s Minister for Disinformation, Bonking and Weed.
It is a humiliation for Tabuya and her lackeys at the Online Safety Commission, who couldn’t help crowing about Meta removing Alex Forwood only to see her restored and back in the business of making their lives hell within the space of less than 48 hours.
Worse for the government, Alex has taken the first steps in setting up her own blog site outside Facebook. First it was to circumvent the Facebook ban – as Grubsheet has been able to do in these columns after I was kicked off Facebook on a complaint from Lynda Tabuya. But now Alex seems poised to launch a two-pronged campaign to keep the bastards honest on both Facebook and her new blog site.
Lynda Tabuya now has a great deal of egg on her face, along with her patron, the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka. And both now face the possibility of Grubsheet also making a reappearance on Facebook inspired by Alex Forward’s enterprise.
I am a week away from shutting down altogether here as my left shoulder is replaced but when I eventually return, I will be making my own representations to Meta to be readmitted to Facebook and start re-recruiting the 30,000 “followers” I had before I was terminated.
So on more than one front, Lynda’s attempt to silence Alex Forwood has backfired in spectacular fashion and empowered, and emboldened, the government’s critics at the worst possible time as the days count down relentlessly to judgment day at the hands of a restive electorate.
Pride comes before a fall – as the old saying goes – and Lynda has humiliated herself and her government colleagues through her hubris and total lack of judgment.
It wasn’t a good look and it will have taken Meta very little time to realise it.
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