(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
What a fantastically good idea!! All we have to do is ban these people and groups from social media platforms and pretend they don't exist. That way, we can all sleep soundly at night knowing that we've made the world safe.
Now, some people might think that lunatics like these people might simply carry on with their own message boards and other online outlets, but I think that's just crazy talk. Thanks to Mark Zuckerberg's courageous action on this issue, the world is now filled with puppies and rainbows.
Boru
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