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They have Ted Kaczynski on that list despite the fact that he's in prison for the rest of his life, and that he wouldn't use Facebook even if he was out. Is his
by jdhn 5y ago
They have Ted Kaczynski on that list despite the fact that he's in prison for the rest of his life, and that he wouldn't use Facebook even if he was out. Is his presence on this list an indicator that Facebook is paying more attention to users/groups that talk about him a lot or share his ideals?
- Sunspark 5y agoMaybe the latter. They have people on the list who have been dead for 76 years.
- busterarm 5y agoThey also have Aum Shinrikyo listed as such even though they changed their name to Aleph (which is not listed) decades ago.
- _ofdw 5y agoThey have a bunch of dead Nazis on that list, like Adolf Hitler, Rudolph Hess, and Adolf Eichmann. Presumably these folks aren't using facebook so I can only assume that, uh, younger nazis have adopted these names as noms de guerre?
- TaylorAlexander 5y agoSince Facebook creates profiles even for people not on Facebook, I wonder if their system has an internal profile for people like that…
- gorwell 5y agoLong dead Hitler and Goebbels are included too, but why stop there? Where's Joseph Stalin and Vlad the Impaler. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21083819/pages/facebook-dangerous-individuals-and-organizations-list-reproduced-snapshot-p65-large.gif https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21083819/pages/facebo...
- woodruffw 5y agoI'm guessing the list is based on political salience, not just how "bad" a person is. There probably aren't that many Vlad the Impaler apologists in the world, given that he's a functionally irrelevant person to be an apologist for. That's perhaps less the case for Stalin, but even Marxist-Leninists (seem) to make fewer excuses for Stalin-the-human than neo-Nazis do for Hitler-the-human.
- legostormtroopr 5y ago> There probably aren't that many Vlad the Impaler apologists in the world Literally the entire genre of Vampire literature disagrees.
- woodruffw 5y ago> Literally the entire genre of Vampire literature disagrees. I wasn't under the impression that there was any particular political message behind contemporary vampire fiction. Dracula itself is full of political messages, but probably not the ones you're thinking of[1]. [1]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3828327 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3828327
- lenkite 5y agoWhere is Mao ?
- adventured 5y agoExactly. Where's Che Guevara? Another of the monsters of the 20th century and still quite popular as an icon.
- petre 5y agoVlad the Impaler might have been overdoing things, but he did stuff that pretty much standard practice during the Middle Ages. Stalin on the other hand should totally be on that list.
- barbacoa 5y agoAnd don't get me started on the Romans. After the Romans captured Carthage they murdered 450,000 of its inhabitants. This makes Caesar's Place in Las Vegas very culturally problematic.
- syshum 5y agoThey have Adolf Hitler on the list, he is dead as far as I know unless Facebook as confirm the conspiracy that he never died?
- bellyfullofbac 5y agoEveryone missing the bleeding obvious: keywords for their moderation bots, if post contains keyword, flag it for manual moderation, or even downrank it so it doesn't show up that often in news feeds. Although with how much the MAGA-crowd evokes the name of Hitler/Nazis to compare the current administration with it, maybe not...
- BitwiseFool 5y ago>"Although with how much the MAGA-crowd evokes the name of Hitler/Nazis to compare the current administration with it, maybe not... " Okay, but I want you to acknowledge just how much Blue Team did this exact same thing during the last administration.
- refenestrator 5y agoConsider it an anti-godwin measure and it's still a win, whoever is saying it.
- syshum 5y ago>>Although with how much the MAGA-crowd evokes the name of Hitler/Nazis to compare the current administration with it, maybe not... I have not seen this widely used, and when it is often it is in the context of "And they called us Nazi's" or something to that effect. The number of "MAGA-Types" comparing Biden to WWII Germany is a faction of the number of people that used the same comparison for Trump. Neither are accurate, but Godwin demands that everything we dislike is just like fascism //for the record, because I have not. I am neither Republican or Democrat I support the largest 3rd party in the US, they who can not be named....
- nix23 5y agoAnd Benito Mussolini for hate :)