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European legal official OKs orders that force Facebook to globally remove insults to politicians like "oaf" and "fascist" (as well as synonyms)
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waetherman
June 4, 2019, 11:41pm
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Here’s the problem though; what is name calling? Fascist? Drunk? Pedo?
YouTube carves policy exception allowing "hurtful" homophobic slurs
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