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Facebook Deletes Richard Spencer's Accounts in Hate Speech Crackdown

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

aristarchus writes:

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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Original Submission

• Re:Bad precedent (Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Monday April 16 2018, @09:24AM

  by aristarchus (2645) on Monday April 16 2018, @09:24AM (#667556) Journal

  rabid aristarchus

  Ungrammatical speech is not speech, either, and is a terror to the literate.

  rabid aristarchoi

  Masculine nominative plural, first declension, not that it is usual to use such with proper names.

  Now write it again, one hundred times.

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