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

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 Thursday July 26 2018, @03:55AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @03:55AM (#712912)

    It wasn't about the economic interests of the USA at all, it was about the political interests of the folks that we see now, in retrospect, as the pioneers of the 'deep state,'

    In capitalism, political and economic interests are very much interchangeable. Ask China about their hacking doctrine :)

    There were quite a few spoils to be had. Short term mainly in the form of military tech that was years ahead of its time - missiles, jet engines, submarines, tanks... both the USA as well as the Russians took of that what they could and their post-war designs were often if not largely copies, then directly evolved from German designs. Medium term there was the extraction of talent - see Operation Paperclip. German scientists and engineers were taken by both winning parties, in some cases more, in others less voluntarily. Long term there was was denying Russia influence over a highly industrialized country with excellent infrastructure, plenty natural rescources and traditionally a strong economy. The Russians were pretty dumb in the regard of what they did with their half of the country; they de-industrialized it by taking whole factories to Russia and letting infrastructure rot while West Germany rebuilt and (once again) became an important trading partner.

    What I'll give you is that neither of these are of direct or immediate economic benefit, but in the end having a stronger military than the other guy is about one thing: being able to secure the resources you already have and being able to grab more resources by force when politics won't work (as seen on TV). So securing the tech and talent was imperative in order to prevent losing the edge on Russia^W the commies.

  • (Score: 1) by Arik on Thursday July 26 2018, @04:34AM

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday July 26 2018, @04:34AM (#712921) Journal
    Staying scrupulously neutral would have likely resulted in a similar amount of the intellectual capital finding it's way here anyway - without all the blood and treasure to make it happen. It would have also resulted in a significantly weaker post-war Soviet Union.

    Taking the same course in WWI instead could easily have avoided the rise of Hitler entirely.
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