Citing "violence," Facebook officially has banned anarchist and anti-fascist content, alongside QAnon

[DukeTrout]

@walter_guyll

In Seattle, where I live, protesters are bringing their own explosives and bricks to toss at police.

To be fair, the police are bringing guns, batons, tear gas, and rubber bullets…

[DukeTrout]

@Fabio

Ok cool, so it was violence, and justified.

No, it was property damage and it was justified. The building was unoccupied at the time.

[smulder]

@Fabio

The police have a legal monopoly on initiating force so it’s no surprise that they use force

We KNOW all the shit cops do is legitimate, BECAUSE … uh, because I just told you it was

That’s just logic

[aLynHall]

@Fabio

“I know many disagree with me, but I also consider some levels of property damage to be violence.
Just the other night there was a protest in Denver and they were setting things on fire in the street (no buildings, thankfully) and they smashed a Quiznos window. Seriously? How can I be ok with that? What did this Quiznos franchise ever do to merit having their window smashed and the store trashed?”

People are being murdered by police and you are worried about the Quiznos window.

THAT IS THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION OF WHY THEY BROKE THE QUIZNOS WINDOW.

When people start being worried about Black Americans being murdered by police, and bring justice, perhaps the Quiznos windows will no longer be broken to get your attention, because, evidently, that’s what gets your segment of society’s attention.

[tinoesroho]

Facebook, like certain person posting in this topic, is a Status Quo Supremacist who believes that the order the status quo represents is better any disorder – however temporary – that demands redressing harms enshrined in the status quo. Cops murdering civilians? Black folk being targeters by law enforcement, to the point where cops made more stops of Black folk in NYC than the number of Black rolls living in NYC? Crooked judges accepting payoffs from private prisons to sentence Black youth to lives of slavery for trumped up charges? To a Status Quo Supremacist that’s all fine, because that’s order. When you point out these injustices they assign blame to a single bad actor, while downplaying the systemic injustice wreaked by the Status Quo.

Which is why it is thoroughly unsurprising to see Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg having furtive conferences with far-right leaders while Facebook bans newsletters and zines who protest system-inflicted violence. Facebook exists to serve the powers that be. Facebook is now part of the status quo.