Tommy Robinson removed from Facebook

Since blogging with the links to Panodrama this morning Tommy Robinson has been removed from Facebook. The link to Panodrama I gave no longer works. This is not unexpected. I don’t use Instagram but his account there has also been removed. 

So far the video remains on You Tube. Enough people have downloaded copies and will upload as and when necessary that I doubt the authorities can make it disappear altogether. 

The left-leaning Guardian newspaper says

In a statement, Tom Watson, Labour’s shadow secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport, said: “I welcome Facebook’s decision to remove Tommy Robinson pages under their “Organised Hate” policy. But for far too long this violent thug’s hate-spewing, anti-Islamist tirades were given a platform by Facebook. Today’s decision comes far too late…”

As I am hearing figures of over 1 million views so far on just one platform I’d say it is too late. Cat, bag, out.