Facebook laying groundwork to censor criticism of Israel
If you've read some of my comments, you might have gleaned that I am pro Antifa and hate nazis. Despite that, I am less than thrilled to hear Facebook is going to ban Nazis.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-hatespeech/facebook-bans-whi...
Sure, we can all get behind it on principle but that just cracked open the door. Next, anyone critcizing Israel will be called an anti semite. Criticizing Israel will become hate speech.
In addition, these fools are publicly repugnant and that is actually a good thing.
At least, hypothetically, becaise if our law enforcement agencies weren't filled with neo nazis and nazi sympathizers then hypothetically Facebook would be a medium by which these fools could get themselves arrested.
If our cops weren't so busy arresting or killing minorities that is.
No, this bodes ill for freedom of speech.
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Can't be banned if you don't use it.
Corporate slime will be corporate slime. Funny thing, corporations are allying with government to ban speech... of people they call fascists.
Am I the only one who sees the irony here?
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
“Hate speech” = real-world implementation of “thoughtcrime”
The ACLU?
. . . doesn’t seem to want to defend the First Amendment right of free speech anymore.
The SPLC?
. . . turns out to be a grifting operation for bilking gullible Northern liberals.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/southern-poverty-law-cent...
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-reckoning-of-morris-dees-an...
Shocked, SHOCKED to find that there is corruption here!
Of course, the ACLU and SPLC would probably inform me that the reason I don't like them is because I am some incredibly large combination of nasty words that the media have rendered completely useless through overuse.
Used to be you could kill a Nazi infection by giving it attention and calling out the evil. But, just like antibiotics, they used it on everything... and it stopped working.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
don't use it
I used to be a proud Facebook non-user.
I am now an orgulous Facebook non-user!!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
irony
You mean that corporations and governments are using fascist techniques, ostensibly to fight fascism?
And in support of fascist Israel, no less!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Israel CAN'T Be Fascist!
Because they've been telling us since they started that the only reason they exist is to protect themselves from fascists!
Therefore anything they do, like allying government with corporations, displacing people based on their race/religion, demanding loyalty, and relentless, unceasing propaganda, cannot be fascist.
And if you believe that I want to see your bridge deed collection.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Exactly,
Just as an abuse victim could never, ever become an abuser. It never happens.
And if it does, there are reasons.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
Slippery slope...yep you betcha
The corporate Facebook censorship started with the odious Alex Jones and next thing you know lots of left leaning websites are being censored.
I am definitely in the anti Nazis camp. Besides haven't we already had this conversation?
I might not like what you say, but I'll defend your right to say it."
Guess that's another thing that was written on a gawd damned piece of paper.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
a belt and pulley on Voltaire
Voltaire wrote that.
And I think I'd like to put a belt and pulley on Voltaire. All the spinning he's doing in his grave these days should make quite a few quid worth of electricity.....
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
I dunno Snoop,
That comment contains a comparative value judgment (like/not like), and it threatens violence as well (defend).
I think that's hate speech.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
Alex Jones
When Alex Jones got banned, I warned that it would lead to further curtailment of free speech. I will always come down on the side of free speech, whether or not I like it or agree with it.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
I found this discussion interesting
Big Tech is reinventing colonialism in the digital era says Michael Kwet in discussing centralized control of the Internet at the root of current problems like privacy and monopoly power and the associated rise of Big Data and the surveillance society
https://therealnews.com/series/digital-colonialism-humanitys-struggle-fo...
Two parts text or video.
The EU is working on copy right protection over the internet.
I'm glad I'm faceless and never got sucked into farcebook.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”