Originally published at: Facebook's secret blacklist revealed | Boing Boing
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Not unexpectedly, Palestinians have been hit hard:
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According to the list itself, both of these groups are internally designated as “Armed Militias,” inexplicably.
Guessing this is a case where they wanted to use the same restrictions, but didn’t create a new group technically… definitely 
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There are a sh’t ton of “armed militias” on that list.
Lots of really badly named “Music Bands” too.
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I mean, if you are part of a hate group or are a terrorist, you must be aware of that designation… the fact that you’d be unable to create a page would make it obvious, would it not? So I’m not sure how anyone is being “tipped off” here.
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Goodwill is listed as a terror organization. Did I miss something about them?
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They exploit disabled workers by paying them the inexplicably-legal less than minimum wage, but AFAIK they’re no Hobby Lobby…
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Even Hobby Lobby would be listed as a hate group at worst, I think (not that they are, I checked). Goodwill is on the same list as the Taliban!
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Did not see that one coming.
They did terrorize me once for bringing in an old cathode ray tube TV. 
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Well, Hobby Lobby did finance the illegal exfiltration of biblically-relevant historical artifacts from Iraq which likely financed ISIL…
But yeah, genuinely no idea why Goodwill is on Facebook’s no-fly list.
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Wow, what is going on with German hate bands??? I thought Germany had restrictive anti-hate speech laws.
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“Armed right-wing militias in the US are placed in a far more permissive 3rd tier, subject to the lightest restrictions.” Where does it say that in the list released? There are a lot of what looks to be right wing militia types on the list. So that is good they are on the radar, at least. Possibly a few leftist ones too, I saw a John Brown Militia listed.
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“Last year, Facebook banned anti-capitalist media orgs” Who would have thought capitalists don’t want anti-capitalists on their platform??
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How is it that the more I learn about how Facebook operates, the shittier it reveals itself to be? I thought I had hit bottom with them a while ago, but noooooo…
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Policy written so that millennials in charge can make informed decisions…
"The type of content that does not violate our policies and is therefore allowed on our platform.
Advocating:
Violence in a fictional setting (e.g. “kill all the Orcs in Mordor”). "
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Armed right-wing militias in the US are placed in a far more permissive 3rd tier, subject to the lightest restrictions.
This is my surprised face…
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It’s shit all the way down; there is no bottom.
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There in no “bottom” to a black hole…
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I keep waiting for a “here’s something Facebook does right” story, but I’m not seeing them - even from Facebook itself. (Or at least no such stories from Facebook that are even remotely convincing.)
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Is it me, or is the link to the actual Intercept article in question missing?
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Looks like it just relocated…
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