2 ms·
If you believe people learn from history, or learn from mistakes, then you must recognize that any attempt to diminish, reduce, suppress, discredit history is n
by cmurf 8y ago
If you believe people learn from history, or learn from mistakes, then you must recognize that any attempt to diminish, reduce, suppress, discredit history is not mere misinformation. It's planned deception with a purpose that not well intentioned.
Perhaps innocently ignorant is "I've never heard of the holocaust, tell me more." Or even, "I've heard of the holocaust, but I have no concrete reasons to believe it happened, it seems incredible."
Malevolent, willfully destructive to civil discourse, bordering on fighting words, is "The holocaust did not happen. People who claim it did are liars."
But all of that is orthogonal to what Facebook's policy should be. No matter what they're going to run into trouble. The U.S. and E.U. have rather different ideas about the limits of free speech. And even greater differences exist around the world. And in that sense I think it doesn't matter what policy they go with as long as it's consistent, and the CEO doesn't say absurd things like holocaust deniers aren't intentionally getting it wrong, let alone try to give deniers a psychological evaluation. He needs to stick to policy decisions, not evaluate people's intent and end up sugar coating it.