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FB bans 'dangerous' individuals
May 4, 2019 at 2:37 am
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
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RE: FB bans 'dangerous' individuals
May 4, 2019 at 3:58 am
(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.
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RE: FB bans 'dangerous' individuals
May 4, 2019 at 5:20 am
(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.
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RE: FB bans 'dangerous' individuals
May 4, 2019 at 5:55 am
They're certainly free to do so, but..ultimately, there's a reason that they're on facebook. There actually are facebook alternatives for horrible people, but they're commercially worthless what with how no one uses them or wants to be around the people who do.
What deplatforming does, mainly, to cons like alex jones, is hurt his lead pill sales.
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RE: FB bans 'dangerous' individuals
May 4, 2019 at 5:57 am
Kind of a bigger picture here, dude.
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RE: FB bans 'dangerous' individuals
May 4, 2019 at 9:27 am
I wonder if any other platforms have curtailed behavior they find undesirable?
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May 4, 2019 at 6:22 pm
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(May 4, 2019 at 5:57 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Kind of a bigger picture here, dude.
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The picture is more then big enough
(May 4, 2019 at 9:27 am)wyzas Wrote: I wonder if any other platforms have curtailed behavior they find undesirable? Likely
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RE: FB bans 'dangerous' individuals
May 4, 2019 at 6:38 pm
(May 4, 2019 at 9:27 am)wyzas Wrote: I wonder if any other platforms have curtailed behavior they find undesirable?
https://mashable.com/article/deplatformi...ones-2018/
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RE: FB bans 'dangerous' individuals
May 5, 2019 at 2:03 am
(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
How is Farrakhan dangerous?
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RE: FB bans 'dangerous' individuals
May 5, 2019 at 6:06 am
(May 5, 2019 at 2:03 am)Huggy Bear Wrote: How is Farrakhan dangerous?
He is known of making antisemitic videos on FB.
(May 4, 2019 at 3:58 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: 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.
If it gives you any comfort most countries in the world have anti-hate laws. In Canada there are "anti-hate" statutes and laws against spreading "false news" that have been applied to stuff like Holocaust deniers. In Austria it is a crime if a person "denies, grossly trivializes, approves or seeks to justify the national socialist genocide or other national socialist crimes against humanity." In France it is illegal to challenge the existence of "crimes against humanity," as defined by the military tribunal at Nuremberg:
Quote:crimes against humanity: namely murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war, or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.
And it was used in one famous case like when the French Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson was found guilty in a Paris court of defamation and incitement to racial hatred and violence back in 1981.
Germany has the "Auschwitz-Lie" Law, which makes it a crime to "defame the memory of the dead."
Switzerland, Belgium, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Sweden, and Australia have similar laws on the books.
While in US it is left to corporations to deal with these sort of things
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