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It is concerning that Britain First exist and have the support they do. It's also concerning that Facebook has the power to decide who is right and wrong when
by mabbo 8y ago
It is concerning that Britain First exist and have the support they do.
It's also concerning that Facebook has the power to decide who is right and wrong when it comes to the most popular form of free speech we have in the world today.
These aren't mutually exclusive facts- they can both be true or false and you can agree or disagree with them to different levels. And I don't have an answer. I'm not even sure any answer the majority would agree with exists. This is the great problem our generation must answer as a society, or destroy everything great we have achieved for having not solved it.
- digianarchist 8y agoBritain First have about as much support as Islam4UK which is to say not much. The EDL was the real worry with membership peaking at 184,000 but today virtually none existent. The majority of both groups appears to have merged into UKIP.
- pjc50 8y agoWhich in turn has merged into the Conservative Party. Occasionally an MP or councillor is found posting in a hate group. https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/zm8zb3/tory-mp-with-history-of-islamophobia-was-a-member-of-racist-facebook-groups https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/zm8zb3/tory-mp-with-histo... (Sometimes people claim they were added to the group without their knowledge or consent, which FB lets you do - this is a massive misfeature of the system!)