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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: 2) by ewk on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:29AM (1 child)

    by ewk (5923) on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:29AM (#712998)

    Artificial constructs like this (laws, rules, amendments) and the units (countries, civilizations, companies) they apply to, have been know to change.

    Just saying, that if you have a specific construct in a particular unit now, there is not much guarantee that you will have that construct tomorrow (assuming you stay in the same unit).

    And, as with this 'outranking'... different units may very well have different constructs. So, outside your particular unit, your construct possibly does not mean more than diddly-squat.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:32PM (#713450)

    So you're pointing out that laws and Constitutions can change. And?

    Hate speech is not currently illegal in the US. That is a fact. That was what was being point out.