(May 4, 2019 at 2:37 am)Fierce Wrote:Quote:Facebook Bans Alex Jones, Louis Farrakhan And Other 'Dangerous' Individuals
Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan are running out of places to espouse their views online.
Facebook banned these high-profile personalities and several others from its social media platforms Thursday, becoming the latest tech company to officially declare them persona non grata. Many of them have already been banned from Twitter, YouTube and Apple's Podcasts app.
In addition to Jones and Farrakhan, Facebook also kicked out right-wing extremists Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer and Joseph Watson, who works for InfoWars; white supremacist Paul Nehlen, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2016 and 2018; and Jones' company, Infowars. The groups will also lose their accounts on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook.
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/03/719897599...ndividuals
Although I am against censorship mainly, the lack of any oversight on the interwebz has caused untold damage by putting people in bubbles of lies. Its how we've got Trump and Brexit and many other bad things.
So I'm conflicted.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.