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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: 2) by Freeman on Thursday July 26 2018, @05:55PM
I've definitely heard / read about other atrocities that have occurred in USSR, China, Africa, and many other places. I just think you've gone a bit on the conspiracy theorist end of the knowledge pool. We should care about things like the Holocaust, the genocides that have happened in African nations, and other atrocities. World War II was the last time we as a nation were nearly universally praised for a military action. It makes sense that one of the worst atrocities that happened in World War II is of concern to Americans.
Yes, horrible things happened in China, and horrible things happened in Russia during World War II. The main difference, is our troops saw first hand the atrocities of the Holocaust. Thus, we have video evidence and other things that made it more real to our people. We weren't on the best of terms with Russia during World War II or after World War II. It's kind of hard to care about commies when the media is pushing the fact that all commies are horrible, baby eating, devils. Guess what China was? They were commies too.
China and Russia were more the enemy of my enemy. As opposed to truly being our Allies. That doesn't detract from the horror of the massive loss of life in either country, but it does explain some of why the USA didn't much care about their hardships.
You don't see a coalition of "The Killing Fields Deniers" do you? The Holocaust is/was the main example of genocide to Americans, because they saw the results of the horrors inflicted on the victims of the Holocaust. American troops were there and there is ample evidence of the horrors that were committed.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"