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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, Insightful) by jmorris on Saturday April 14 2018, @10:08PM (1 child)

    by jmorris (4844) on Saturday April 14 2018, @10:08PM (#667071)

    Last attempt. Apparently Vox Day is correct about communication across several SDs of IQ. Argh.

    Citizens United says a corporation can speak. So Facebook or Twitter can buy a political ad if it wants. The gay wedding cake precedent says that once a business accepts a paying customer it must accept any customer, regardless whether it disagrees with the expressive content servicing that customer entails. Yes there is an obvious conflict between the two, I argued that very point for years and lost. If you are still confused, ask someone else to explain it to you because I'm done.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Whoever on Saturday April 14 2018, @10:58PM

    by Whoever (4524) on Saturday April 14 2018, @10:58PM (#667083) Journal

    Just because you are unable to clearly write a coherent argument doesn't make you more intelligent than others.

    I could make an argument about how the wedding cake can be distinguished form this situation by anyone with half a brain, but I won't bother.

    Go fuck yourself and take your imagined superiority with you.