Hi José We regret to interrupt the music, but Jazz on the Tube is under attack by some truly sinister forces. It may be news to you and if it isn't, please tolerate this statement of the obvious: "Facebook has become the biggest bully on the Internet." Under cover of fighting "hate speech", Facebook has been closing Facebook sites - thousands of them - and removing others from their news feed. First, they shut down the Facebook sites of politically conservative people. Then - after entering into multi-million dollar agreements with pharmaceutical companies - they started closing the sites alternative medicine educators and practitioners. Now, they're going after every small player who is not able to pay "protection money" in the form of advertising. We just got the notice... Jazz on the Tube has been removed from Facebook's news feed which is going to cause us significant promotional and financial harm to our work. The over 20,000 people who subscribed to view and share Jazz on the Tube through Facebook will no longer get us in their news feeds. Why? We supposedly committed an "infraction." What page among the THOUSANDS we've posted over many years has an infraction - and what is the infraction? FACEBOOK WILL NOT TELL US. We're now banned from our Facebook subscribers' news feed. Period. End of story. Obviously, there's a lot of work and money involved in bringing this daily service to you. Thanks to everyone who supports us. If you aren't a supporter yet - and are financially able to be - appreciate what is at stake here. The very Internet which allows unique services like Jazz on the Tube to be delivered is being colonized by a handful of large, anti-social entities like Facebook and Google, which also owns YouTube. Free services like Jazz on the Tube need the support of people who are in a position to support them. Jazz on the Tube needs your help. We are greatly in need of voluntary subscribers: Folks who pay a small amount every month to keep the service going. Small monthly contributions from many people will make it possible for us to weather this and other storms. If that's not possible for you, a one time contribution by check or online helps too. Thanks All the info is here: https://www.jazzonthetube.com/support/ - Ken McCarthy, Lester Perkins Jazz on the Tube P.S. Please share Jazz on the Tube with your friends and colleagues. If they like jazz, they're going to love this. Send your friends to this link and tell them what we do... https://jazzonthetube.com/video/ ================================ Do you like the videos? Please consider supporting our efforts with a contribution. Thanks Details here: https://jazzonthetube.com/video/support-jazz-on-the-tube/ ================================ Getting too many e-mails from us? We're pretty exuberant when it comes jazz. When we find something good, we want to share it. But maybe you only want to get one e-mail from us per day...or just one per week. We can do that. All you have to do is go to this page and change your subscription. It takes 5 seconds. Go here: https://jazzonthetube.com/video/customize/ ================================ Going on vacation? Reply to this e-mail and we'll turn your subscription off and back on. Just give us the start and stop dates. ================================ |