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Ignoring for now the larger debate over censorship, Facebook's implementation of this ban is suspect. All of these accounts have been alleged to be in violation
by danso 8y ago
Ignoring for now the larger debate over censorship, Facebook's implementation of this ban is suspect. All of these accounts have been alleged to be in violation for months, if not years, and some already had been partially banned (Alex Jones was banned from FB but not IG). Why now? Were there new violations? And/or is it a new policy change that affects how FB will be banning accounts moving forward? Is FB going to do bans for a specific user across all platforms, instead of a platform-by-platform basis?
- r3bl 8y agoThey've announced a little over a month ago that they're going to ban white nationalist content: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19503094 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19503094
- razius 8y agoThe problem is what is white nationalism and who defines it? A lot of the opposition is labeled as white nationalism.
- threatofrain 8y agoThe timing isn’t suspicious given that they are increasingly late to this position.