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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday December 17 2019, @07:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-say-no? dept.

From the Guardian

A civil court in Rome has ruled that Facebook must immediately reactivate the account of the Italian neo-fascist party CasaPound and pay the group €800 (£675) for each day the account has been closed, according to local media.

Facebook shut the party's account, which had 240,000 followers, along with its Instagram page in early September. A Facebook spokesperson told the Ansa news agency at the time: "Persons or organisations that spread hatred or attack others on the basis of who they are will not have a place on Facebook and Instagram. The accounts we removed today violate this policy and will no longer be present on Facebook or Instagram."

According to an earlier article:

CasaPound was founded in the late 1990s as a pro-Mussolini drinking club. Named after the 20th-century American poet Ezra Pound, who was known for his fascist sympathies and antisemitism, it claims to support a democratic variant of fascism but it is accused of encouraging violence and racism.

In a 2011 interview with the Guardian, the party's secretary, Simone Di Stefano, described Mussolini's brand of fascism as "our point of reference, a vision of the state and the economy, and the concept of sacrifice". Di Stefano ran for prime minister in the last general election.


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  • (Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday December 18 2019, @01:24AM (4 children)

    by legont (4179) on Wednesday December 18 2019, @01:24AM (#933514)

    And while we are at it, let's take back from Nazi swastika and hand salute.

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  • (Score: 2) by loonycyborg on Wednesday December 18 2019, @10:09AM (3 children)

    by loonycyborg (6905) on Wednesday December 18 2019, @10:09AM (#933678)

    Swastika [wikipedia.org] is far from being a purely Nazi symbol. I agree that it's time to return it to its pre-1930s meaning.

    • (Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday December 18 2019, @06:39PM (1 child)

      by legont (4179) on Wednesday December 18 2019, @06:39PM (#933828)

      The salute is Roman, while we, the country of the Law, borrowed the concept and most of the ideas of the Law from Rome.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Students_pledging_allegiance_to_the_American_flag_with_the_Bellamy_salute.jpg [wikipedia.org]

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      • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday December 18 2019, @10:20PM

        by Bot (3902) on Wednesday December 18 2019, @10:20PM (#933949) Journal

        The roman salute isn't depicted or described in ancient Rome. It is depicted on a 17xx painting but that's quite too late.

        OTOH The fascio is indeed genuine Roman. The multitude of rods meant many weak units could build up a strong union, and the chopping blade was a warning for those who didn't agree with such a union.
        US coins featured it prominently
        https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/a9ca946f-c3c9-4f75-b881-516fdc73f43b/20191103_150700.png [wsimg.com]
        Note the motto E pluribus unum which you might be familiar with.
        Note also the motto should be EX, but the removal of the X ("incidentally", a cross) makes it 13 letters long. Basically the motto is more sinister than the fascio.

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    • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday December 18 2019, @10:07PM

      by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 18 2019, @10:07PM (#933944) Homepage Journal

      In the 70's there was a mystic in Edmonton who called himself ManWoman and said that the Virgin Mary herself had given him the personal quest of restoring the swastika to its original sacred meaning before the Nazis corrupted it.