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On the Daily Dot:
The Facebook pages of Richard Spencer, the alt-right leader who was famously punched in the face last year, have been suspended.
The pages for the National Policy Institute, a lobbying group of sorts for white nationalists, and Spencer's online magazine "altright.com," vanished on Friday after Vice sent the social network an inquiry about hate groups. They had a combined following of almost 15,000 followers.
The action was taken just days after Mark Zuckerberg emphasized during his testimony before Congress that Facebook does not allow hate speech. But it wasn't until Vice flagged the accounts that Facebook suspended them. The social network said in a statement that it identifies violating pages using human monitors, algorithms, and partnerships with organizations.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday April 14 2018, @08:24PM
WebCom was the first commercial web hosting company, cofounded by Thomas Leavitt and Chris Schefler.
Chris was and Thomas still is as left as they come. Thomas later built the website "Buy French Now!" when the Congressional lunchroom started serving Freedom Fries, then the Savage Stupidity site that lampooned right-wing radio host Michael Savage.
True lefties believe in free speech.
I worked there for a while. During my time WebCom made headlines everywhere because it was hosting Ernsts Zundel's Holocaust Revisionism site - and they refused to ban him.
Holocaust Revisionism is unlawful in Germany, so the German government ordered all the german ISPs to ban WebCom's IP.
Tens of thousands of websites. The customers all complained, many took their business elsewhere but still Chris and Thomas kept hosting Zundel's site.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]