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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @01:32AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @01:32AM (#933517)

    Nazism is when someone disagrees with me on Twitter.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @05:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @05:15AM (#933606)

    So trump IS a nazi? Phew, glad that is sorted.