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posted by chromas on Saturday April 14 2018, @05:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the Smells-like-censorship-or-teen-spirit dept.

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.

Also at Engadget and Vice.


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by jmorris on Saturday April 14 2018, @08:57PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Saturday April 14 2018, @08:57PM (#667048)

    Nope. Gab will replace twitter, because it isn't intended to remain an echo chamber long. Of course any forum that does not practice aggressive censorship becomes a "hatebox" so you will not like the day Gab and other open platforms become dominant. Gab will win because Jack is now in a no-win scenario. His (and Zuck's) business model requires him to do things that are increasingly toxic to his userbase. Gab has no Wall Street money or advertisers, because either would bring the mandated censorship with it.

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