ALIPAC's Certified Letter To Facebook
July 17, 2018
Facebook Inc.,
This certified letter is being sent to assure that you are aware that changes made by Facebook have blocked our desktop access to the verified account of William Gheen, who has utilized this account to manage the pages of our national organization Americans for Legal Immigration PAC.
Our access is blocked despite our numerous successful login attempts for WilliamG@alipac.us and our successful completion of the secondary verification process we voluntarily joined for greater security.
A few weeks ago we were informed that our ability to place ads on Facebook would now be blocked because Facebook would no longer accept our well known national organization's PO Box address as certification we are Americans even though ALIPAC is a registered Political Action Committee certified by the Federal Elections Commission in Washington, DC (FEC ID C00405878 ).
On or about July 14, 2018, our access to the verified account of ALIPAC President William Gheen found at these links--
https://www.facebook.com/illegal.immigration.USA
https://www.facebook.com/william.gheen
--was completely blocked. All we get is a blank white screen from our attempts to log in from four separate desktop computers.
The blank screen we get occurs using both Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer, and all attempts to clear our cache and cookies has not resolved this problem.
We have tried to contact Facebook online but have had difficulty accessing any customer service or getting any help or response despite the fact our organization has spent over $23,000 in advertising building up our Facebook pages and posts since 2010!
We are sending this certified letter in the hope that the upper administration of Facebook can take immediate action to remove the block on our account and restore our access.
If we do not receive a response to this letter and if our access to our account is not restored, we will be forced to accept this as the latest of a long series of censorship and abuse our organization has had to endure from Facebook, Inc. employees due to our organization's well-known opposition to the Amnesty legislation supported by Facebook's lobbying wing FWD.us
Your company should not discriminate against Americans who oppose illegal immigration and Amnesty because offering us unequal treatment and services based on our political creed is expressly prohibited under current US laws.
Please restore our access to our Facebook pages and remove the limiting restrictions your company has placed on our ability to run ads. Furthermore, we request that you halt the suppression of our posts that only allows a very small fraction of our 600,000+ page supporters to see our messages unless we pay for ads.
We have noticed and documented that pro-Amnesty left-wing organizations on Facebook enjoy easy reach to large audiences while organizations that oppose Amnesty like ALIPAC are suppressed and our ability to reach larger audiences is severely restricted.
We intend to appeal to Congress for regulations and remedies for these well documented and systematic abuses of US citizens who oppose the Amnesty bills Facebook openly supports.
We await your response.
William Gheen
President of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC
www.alipac.us
Post Office Box 30966, Raleigh, NC 27622-0966
Tel: (919) 787-6009
FEC ID: C00405878
