Proof TikTok is Shadow Banning “Tree of Liberty Society” (Screen Capture Evidence)

TikTok Just Shadow Banned Our Name – “Tree of Liberty Society” Violates Their Community Standards https://www.tiktok.com/@treeoflibertysociety In this video, I expose how TikTok is actively shadow banning the Tree of Liberty Society. Even though our channel isn’t officially banned, searching for “Tree of Liberty Society” triggers a warning that our name violates TikTok’s community standards. I show you the raw screen capture proof — straight from a non-logged-in browser. If you’ve been wondering why you can’t find us on TikTok… this is why. The Tree of Liberty Society and its members are dedicated to building understanding and implementation of the principles that have built free nations, exposing the satanic conspiracy we face and building an effective opposition to it.

If you’re already on TikTok, you can check out our channel here: https://www.tiktok.com/@treeoflibertysociety

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Shadowbanning! It is real and TikTok is doing it today on the Tree of Liberty Society. I am Ben McClintock. This is the Tree of Liberty Society where we talk about all things liberty and conspiracy and what you can do about it. So, TikTok. Yes, we have a TikTok channel and it is, provably, I have it on screen capture. Shadowbanning us. And, in fact, it is saying that the word or the phrase "Tree of Liberty Society" violates, the name of our organization violates their terms of service, okay? Their community standards. But it's shadowbanning because they haven't actually banned us. They've just banned our name from search. Check this out, okay? We're going to go to, yes, we've got a, we have a TikTok channel. So, this is our TikTok channel. You can see that I am not, this isn't some screenshot from before. You can see it's got movement, right? We've got a video here and this is our TikTok channel. We haven't been banned. It's not, you know, we don't have a whole lot of followers.

It's kind of a small right now. And you can see when we first, our first video didn't do horrible for first videos, right? A couple hundred views and then it just goes to like nothing. Nothing. And yesterday we posted a bunch and it's doing a little bit better than it had in the past. But then today I wasn't, I went into a device that wasn't logged in and I wanted to see what the videos were doing. And so I just went into TikTok, not the app because I don't download the apps. That's just stupid. And I searched for Tree of Liberty Society. And a lot of times when you'll do these searches where they shadowban you, they will just say something like, it just doesn't show up, right? It just, it'll do something else. But check out, if you go to, when I went to TikTok, this is a screen, I just was like shocked. So I was like, okay, let me just screen capture this and look at what happens when you type in Tree of Liberty Society, not logged in. What happens when you type in Tree of Liberty Society on TikTok? So as you can see here, you type in Tree of Liberty Society and it pops up as violating community standards.

That is just crazy. It's not like they banned us outright. So they can't say, oh, you know, we're not shutting down anybody's free speech. We allow people to say all kinds of things. But when you try to find us, it doesn't come up. When I did a Google search for TikTok Tree of Liberty Society, our organization didn't come up. When I went to TikTok.com and typed in Tree of Liberty Society, you saw what came up. So there is a total shadowban trying to stop you from getting our content. Which tells you something, it's something that they don't want you to see, which means on the platforms that you can find us on, that you do see us, we need your support. Go over to, you know, if you're on TikTok, please find the, I'll put the link in the description of this video. You can go find us and subscribe to us. But don't go to, if you're not already on TikTok, don't go to TikTok. I'm not telling you to go to TikTok, but if you're already there and you're already spending time there, then subscribe to us. And maybe that'll help fight the algorithm. I don't know. I don't know if all of a sudden, I don't know what the word, I don't know which part of the phrase, right? Is it, is it Tree that violates the community standards?

Is it Liberty that violates their community standards? Is it Society that violates the community standards? Or is it the combination? Is it us particularly that violates their community standards? I think we know the answer to that because I think if you type in Tree or if you type in the word Liberty, or if you type in the word Society, you'd find quite a few different videos and channels that talked about some, or had those phrases within their content. But when you put them together and it takes you to the things that we're doing, that's something that they do not want you to see. So we need your support. If you're here on YouTube, become a member of the channel. Go over to TreeofLibertySociety.com and drop us a donation to help support our work. Help us to break through these shadow bands. And we can't do it without your support. So please go over to TreeofLibertySociety.com and become a member today or just drop us a donation. We'd really appreciate it.

Help us break through these shadow bands. Thank you. To better understand the name and what we're about, it's important to go back to the founding generation and the symbol of the Liberty Tree. The Liberty Tree was far more than a patriotic symbol. It functioned as a physical rallying point for popular resistance, a kind of grassroots command center for what contemporaries openly called rebellion. Seen through today's standards, many of the ideas and actions associated with the Liberty Tree would be labeled extreme, radical, or even insurrectionary. The Liberty Tree was most famously an elm tree in Boston beginning in 1765 during the resistance to the Stamp Act. It became the meeting place for the Sons of Liberty and a symbol of direct popular sovereignty. The idea that the people themselves, not institutions, were the ultimate authority.

Similar Liberty Trees appeared throughout the colonies, each serving as a local note of resistance. The Liberty Tree represented a shift from petitioning authority to defying it. Before 1765, colonists protested largely through legal petitions, pamphlets, and appeals to Parliament. After the Liberty Tree, protest became public, coercive, and sometimes violent. The people, not corrupted courts or legislatures, became the primary enforcer of political norms. The Liberty Tree symbolized the belief that laws violating natural rights were not binding, that obedience to unjust laws was morally wrong. This included refusal to comply with taxes, obstruction of courts, intimidation of judges, and customs officials. Colonists used the Liberty Tree for public pledges to resist Parliament, for burning of British symbols, and ceremonial declarations of loyalty to liberty over law.

The colonists were acting under natural law, the ancient English right of resistance, and the belief that government existed only to secure life, liberty, and property, and that once government violated those ends, it was considered not merely corrupt, but actually illegitimate. Now today, the Tree of Liberty Society believes that American support of the Founders' cause shouldn't be merely in terms of the results, but in the principles that brought those results about, and seek to read what the Founders read, and do what the Founders did, so that we can bring about what the Founders did. We reject libertinism, though, or the false freedom of "do as thou wilt," but embrace the principles of liberty in the fashion of the Founders, in the spirit of liberty under God and His laws.

As we build strength with your help, we will be in the same position of the Founders to throw off the chains of tyranny, and again have a biblically moral and free society. Now how do we do this? We do it through the printing, and publishing, and distribution of books, production of videos, pamphlets, exclusive member trainings, interviews, public outreach, public gatherings, and presentations, and just so much more. So I want to ask you, will you show the courage of the Founding Fathers and join with us today? Go to TreeofLibertySociety.com and click on the "Join" tab and become a member today. Or if you're not ready for that, just make sure you sign up for our email or text alerts, which you can also do at TreeofLibertySociety.com. I hope you're one of those that are the moral few, the brave, those that are like the Founders, that are willing to stand up and become a member of the Tree of Liberty Society, and join us in restoring lost liberty.