Church and State blog: Now I cannot post anything in my Facebook wall using my Chrome browser. And blocks on access to our Church and State website continue to escalate (WITH UPDATE 17/3/2019)

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Now I cannot post anything in my Facebook wall using my Chrome browser. And blocks on access to our Church and State website continue to escalate (WITH UPDATE 17/3/2019)

Our Church and State website has no less than 52 Nobel Laureates on it; for details, see this blog's sidebar under "Church and State" (updated today).

Tonight I can't post anything in my personal Facebook wall using my Chrome browser. As the video above shows, I can post in our Church and State page and in FB groups. At the end of the video, I show that I can post in my personal FB wall using my Firefox browser. I can also post to the same wall using Declan's Chrome browser. And blocks on access to our Church and State website continue to escalate. Tonight the count on these sort of blocks is four and counting:

1,588th 6 March 2019, 12.42am (1)
1,589th 7 March 2019, 6.56pm (1)
1,590th 8 March 2019, 6.44pm
1,591st 8 March 2019, 7.10pm (2)
1,588th 6 March 2019, 12.42am (1)
1,589th 7 March 2019, 6.56pm (1)
1,590th 8 March 2019, 6.44pm
1,591st 8 March 2019, 7.10pm (2)
1,592nd 10 March 2019, 10.16am
1,593rd 10 March 2019, 11.32am
1,594th 10 March 2019, 3.50pm
1,595th 10 March 2019, 10.30pm
1,596th 10 March 2019, 11.05pm
1,597th 10 March 2019, 11.36pm (6)
1,598th 11 March 2019, 2.26am
1,599th 11 March 2019, 5.09am
1,600th 11 March 2019, 12.04pm (3)
1,601st 12 March 2019, 4.31am
1,602nd 12 March 2019, 2.28pm
1,603rd 12 March 2019, 3.32pm
1,604th 12 March 2019, 6.35pm (4)

Update Summation 12 March 2019

1,604 blocks on access to our Church and State website since 26 July 2016 (89 blocks 2016; 871 blocks 2017; 516 blocks 2018; 128 blocks 2019); 53 blocks in May 2018 that included 6 blocks on 8 May, the same day as Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations; 42 blocks in October 2018 that included an all-time record-breaking 13 blocks in one day on 2 October; 53 blocks last month that included Facebook's 56th block against our Church and State website since 1 December 2015; 31 blocks this month; 14 blocks last week; 13 blocks this week; 4 blocks so far today (as of 12 March at 7.35pm).

89 blocks 2016
871 blocks 2017
516 blocks 2018
- January 2018: 55 blocks
- February 2018: 45 blocks
- March 2018: 59 blocks
- April 2018: 42 blocks
- May 2018: 53 blocks
- June 2018: 38 blocks
- July 2018: 31 blocks
- August 2018: 28 blocks
- September 2018: 34 blocks
- October 2018: 42 blocks
- November 2018: 43 blocks
- December 2018: 46 blocks
128 blocks 2019
- January 2019: 44 blocks
- February 2019: 53 blocks
- March 2019: 31 blocks (and counting)

27 June 2019: SITE BLOCKS: The blocks on access to our Church and State website continue unabated (WITH UPDATE 12/3/2019: re 1,604th block since 26 July 2016)

UPDATE 14 March (5.12pm): My Chrome browser is back to normal, although today we have already had four blocks on access to Church and State. When it comes to my laptop, we're just back to what is now becoming the standard targeting of my primary laptop through internet speed; see my post of 7 February, The targeting of our two primary laptops runs into a record-breaking third month. My primary laptop has been targeted for over three months (WITH UPDATE 19/2/2019). We pay British Telecom £900 per year for broadband. Nonetheless, all day today I have hardly been able to open a page. Declan's primary laptop is working fine in another room off the router beside me.

UPDATE 17 March (12.58am): Four blocks on access to Church and State already this morning. Declan has decided that enough is enough and it's time to update his complaint to the United Nations last May. The past year for us has been nothing but shambolic. See, for example, my previous post of 10 March, The assault on our emails to our closest colleagues continues unabated. Without a doubt, the assault over the last three months on our email will feature prominently in this updated complaint to the UN under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

From My Picks:

4 January: Information Commissioner: Declan battles the Commissioner's Lead Case Officer over the nature of his data complaint against the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's (WITH UPDATE 31/1/2019) What an experience!

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

Church and State

MAYOR OF LONDON RSI PROPERTY
DAY 406 IN A WEEKLY PERIODIC TENANCY
SUBJECT TO A SECTION 21 NOTICE

(SEE PARA. 3 BELOW)

1. Our 308 Honorary Associates include 20 Nobel Prize laureates. Declan and I are engaged in a project that deals with the publication of issues significant to social policy in a number of key areas, e.g., climate change, population, futurism, atheism, and free speech. Established as Network for Church Monitoring, a non-profit company limited by guarantee, our main publication, found at the website, Church and State, calls attention to subjects, not the least which have been critical of the interaction between religious and secular institutions. We have been the target of numerous threats and actions, e.g., the former resulting in threats to Declan's life, and the latter, which have led to vandalism. The various incidents are on record with the police and other official agencies.

2. There are no less than 63 Nobel Prize laureates on the Church and State website from 20 Honorary Associates, eight articles, nine book excerpts and 33 petition signatories. (For example, one Nobel laureate signed our Nobel petition in support of human embryonic stem cell research and gave us permission to excerpt from one of his books.) Our list of associates also includes 18 US National Medal laureates, and six Turing Award laureates (the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in computer science). We have published one article and excerpted from the books of seven members of the British House of Lords. And there are 31 knighted professors on the site from 13 Honorary Associates, one book excerpt and 21 petition signatories. These figures are despite the never-ending assault on our email (this link reveals the targeting of our emails to, among others, a close colleague in Washington, DC as well as space advocates and Nobel laureates).

3. This is Day 406 for us living under the threat to life of a 'no fault' eviction by Peabody Trust.[1] We live in a Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative (RSI) property. Peabody's appalling new terms of tenancy have forced us into an unstable weekly periodic tenancy that poses a threat to Declan's life and inhibits our ability to exercise our rights. Declan accumulated quite a history with the Housing Ombudsman Service before he received the Ombudsman's decision not to investigate a referral from Lyn Brown MP on jurisdictional grounds. The Ombudsman was asked to consider whether or not our tenancy has been renewed like for like; and whether, if not, it should be in light of the landlord having accused us of not signing a like-for-like agreement. The Equality and Human Rights Commission will not accept a referral of discrimination from Ms Brown, the Commission's helpline (EASS) having grossly distorted the complaint against Peabody. We no longer have pro se access to the courts (see next paragraph).

4. This eviction matter came before District Judge Ruth Fine at the Central London County Court on 30 June 2020, when both counsel for St Mungo's (the charity in effective control of our tenancy) and Declan presented their positions. Declan lost the case and was ordered to pay £1,850 in costs. A publishing colleague in America cleared these costs within 24 hours of my blog post about this hearing for strike out on a related issue that was the essence of the claim, i.e., that St Mungo's would take a phone call to confirm that we are clients of the Mayor of London's RSI programme. Within a week of the hearing, St Mungo's had agreed to take this phone call for us both, the Court having ruled that they were not obliged to do so despite our circumstances. This time we escaped bankruptcy (counsel for St Mungo's asked for £3,407.50 in costs), but consider that to seek pro se access to justice in the courts has become far too dangerous for us. Declan currently has before the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman the decision of the Information Commissioner that allows St Mungo's to continue processing coercive support plans without our knowledge or consent and that also poses a threat to his life.

5. When it comes to traffic, we have had 10.7 million hits in the past three years on Facebook; however, I left the platform on 13 March 2021 for one year rather than risk being banned for life. It is indisputable that with any sort of level playing field Church and State would have far exceeded 2.5 million hits last year. In addition to a large variety of blocks without explanation, Facebook had so severely restricted our Page's distribution by October 2020 that it was almost as good as an unpublished page.[2] Currently, we are up to their 85th block since 1 December 2015, and as usual without an explanation. This block records as one half of their 3rd double block in the first five weeks of this year that lasted 60 days. Our traffic has also been curtailed by over 2.5K blocks on access to Church and State since 26 July 2016, including 29 full distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks since 17 May 2019 that have lasted for as long as 54 hours at a time.[3] About 70% of our hits are from Americans.

"This is precisely the hard hitting kind of response needed to clarify the unfair way Facebook is treating your highly reputable site." Don Collins, Founder, International Services Assistance Fund, Washington DC

Last updated: 26/06/21

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[1] Once a fixed term has elapsed, the landlord has the option to seek eviction even if the tenant has upheld their obligations in full (though of course the landlord must still apply for and obtain a county court order).

[2] 17/10/20: We have permission to publish this ISAF letter of 30 September to Facebook COO Sheryl Samberg. Facebook has so severely restricted our Page's distribution since 4 September that it's almost as good as an unpublished page

[3] Since October 2019, we have been defining a full DDoS attack as having such a high volume of up to 4-minute blocks on access to Church and State that we don't bother recording them all.

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