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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Backtracks on Comments About Holocaust Deniers

posted by FatPhil on Wednesday July 25 2018, @08:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-THINK-THAT-PROBABLY-CLARIFIES-THINGS dept.

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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg backtracks on comments about Holocaust deniers

Facebook may be locked in a battle against fake news, and now CEO Mark Zuckerberg is backtracking on claims that the social network won't ban Holocaust deniers.

Zuckerberg gave the explanation to Recode after the site aired audio of the Facebook founder claiming "abhorrent" content, the New York Post reported, had a right to spread across his massive social media network.

"I personally find Holocaust denial deeply offensive, and I absolutely didn't intend to defend the intent of people who deny that," Zuckerberg told the website later. "Of course if a post crossed a line into advocating for violence or hate against a particular group, it would be removed. … These issues are very challenging but I believe that often the best way to fight offensive bad speech is with good speech."

Earlier, Zuckerberg had spoken differently.

"I don't think that we should be in the business of having people at Facebook who are deciding what is true and what isn't," he said, during an episode of the Recode Decode podcast on Wednesday.

Ed's note: And if there's one thing we can all agree on regarding limitations to freedom of speech online, it's that we'll never all agree regarding limitations to freedom of speech online!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @09:33PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @09:33PM (#712709)

    That's where I first read it. Too much shooting the messenger over ZH links, it's in the top 500 visited sites for the US.

  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by FatPhil on Wednesday July 25 2018, @10:39PM (3 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday July 25 2018, @10:39PM (#712759) Homepage
    More frikken ZH!!!!!

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-25/facebook-shares-implode-after-revenue-user-growth-disappoint
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    Update 2: Well that escalated quickly... FB is now down over 20% from its closing highs, erasing all of the post-Q1 earnings gains and officially entering a bear market...
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    Buy bullioncoin, suckers!
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    • (Score: 1) by Barenflimski on Wednesday July 25 2018, @11:43PM

      by Barenflimski (6836) on Wednesday July 25 2018, @11:43PM (#712786)

      If only these folks had gotten into crpyto-currency at the beginning, they would be up infinity percent.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:21AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:21AM (#712803)

      Bloomberg tells me at least one fool still bought at today's closing price at 8pm.

      • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:26AM

        by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:26AM (#712939) Homepage
        My pet poodle tells me that someone bought at every single level that was a trade price yesterday. Of course, what you're probably seeing in the charts widely-distributed is the "mid market" price, which is not a trade price. (For that reason, for a commodity I am interested in, but where the trading platform doesn't draw such charts itself, I keep a record of both highest bids and lowest offers, so I can see what the real dumbest fomomofo was actually willing to pay before a catastrophic plunge.)
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        Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves