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Hate speech has always been a violation of Facebook's ToS. The "deal" with Germany was simply that Facebook agreed to be better at actually enforcing their own

• Dylan16807 10y ago
  You ignored the actual argument, that political policy was being falsely labeled as hate speech. I have no idea if it's true or not, but that's what you need to address if you want to discuss the nature of the deal.
  • TillE 10y ago
    > I have no idea if it's true or not Of course it's not, it's an absurd claim. There's a very clear distinction between political argument and, well, this: http://www.dw.com/en/pegida-founder-lutz-bachmann-found-guilty-of-inciting-hatred/a-19232497 http://www.dw.com/en/pegida-founder-lutz-bachmann-found-guil...
    • Dylan16807 10y ago
      That article doesn't say anything about Facebook deleting posts of his. And the only thing he's specifically listed as doing, calling specific groups cattle/scum/trash, well, Facebook sure doesn't seem to delete similar language in general. "It's against the rules" does not imply that enforcement is fair if enforcement is highly biased and ignores 99% of cases.
  • zyx321 10y ago
    It is in large part speculation and conjecture. The evidence I thought I had doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. All the same, if you don't support the right of horrble people to say horrible things, you don't actually support free speech.