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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!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:36AM (4 children)
Circular arguing if I ever saw it. The reason we only talk about The holocaust is because it is the one that everyone talks about. Is that the best argument ya got there sport? It isn't the high score, it isn't the most recent, it isn't even the bloodiest and most shocking mass slaughter. So why is it The One. That is my question and no, I'm not expecting an answer because other than EF and perhaps TMB I'm probably the only other one here that might have the balls to even think the forbidden thoughts required to get to an answer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:34AM
TMB? Anti-semitic Holocaust Denier? How about instead, can we genocide jmorris? Just this one time? He seems to be in favor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:51AM
That's a laugh. What, exactly, would those forbidden thoughts be?
(Score: 2) by ewk on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:52AM
Not because we all talk about it, but because it is the (as of yet...) best documented one (this in regards to the initial idea, planning and execution).
So it can be used as an example to avoid another one. Really, it is not meant as a 'how-to' or 'reference manual'.
See, now that wasn't to hard to understand?
But somehow I am afraid with you it's more like leading a horse to water, but not being able to make him drink.
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(Score: 2) by DutchUncle on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:50PM
Maybe because the people who committed it were obsessive about documenting it, keeping records of exactly who was killed at each camp and exactly what loot was taken from them, and filming conditions at their own concentration camps. They were presumably intending to document their success at their task, and even planned a "museum of an extinct race" to celebrate this success. Speaking as someone who lost relatives to those people, I endorse the idea that OTHER genocidal incidents/periods should get more attention as well, from the Armenian genocide (that Hitler himself referenced as an example of getting away with murder) through to the present day.