Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/10/12/facebook-bans-holocaust-denial.html
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It should be a source of eternal shame to Zuckerberg (and a testament to his assumption that money would shield him from the worst effects of anti-Semitism) that his thinking took so long to “evolve” on this matter.
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About fucking time.
Also, why wasn’t this banned from day one?
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No, it’s not. But if you struggle to decide which side of those lines fucking holocaust denial is on, there is something deeply wrong with you.
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Because FREEZE PEACH!!! /s
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Zuck’s core philosophy: all MAUs (including virulently bigoted ones) matter, because $$$.
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It should have been truly shocking that a company in this day and age would refuse to condemn holocaust denial.
The most disappointing thing is that he’s only doing this because he thinks Biden is going to win.
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They can “ban” anything they want. If the Facebook moderation team doesn’t enforce it, it doesn’t matter.
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True, especially since the moderation team is poorly trained and poorly paid.
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The post is sober and informative, the facebook policy is fine by me, but the whole “Freeze Peach” mockery of free speech -whether is be from left or right - worries me.
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Don’t forget that many are suffering from PTSD as well…
Facebook’s real problem is that there are a LOT of shitty people out there and, with VPNs being so easy to use, banning someone is never permanent if the person refuses to stay banned.
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I’m stealing this header from FARK but it’s pretty spot on
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Too little, too late.
-After being used as a tool for furthering genocide in Southeast Asia
-After massive personal data breaches
-After being the most accessible source for Right Wing Extremists
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blame Gutenberg
Blame laziness and lack of accountability on the part of Facebook management
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Agreed. If it looked like Trump was going to win and he was doing this, then yes, I’d say he’s finally evolved a conscience. This simply looks like he’s pandering to whomever is in power (and he probably is).
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Three weeks before the election!
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Darkest Timeline: When condeming Holocaust denial is considered pandering.
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I didn’t realise he was on the Facebook Board…
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Gutenberg and Al Gore invented the internet??
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