Facebook are a private company; they can remove whatever material they want from their platform. Comments about free speech laws are misinformed: you would be a

Facebook are a private company; they can remove whatever material they want from their platform. Comments about free speech laws are misinformed: you would be allowed to delete whatever comments you wanted from your own blog. Having said that, I don’t like the idea that some people at Facebook decide what’s “spreading hate” or not. Are they banning extreme left wing groups too or not? Imagine Facebook was a company from China, Russia or the Middle East, where those governments could pressure them a lot more. Imagine the small group of people deciding what is “spreading hate” today leave the company and some political ideologies take over that position a few years down the line. Do we trust their judgement as much now?