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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.
(Score: 3, Informative) by driverless on Wednesday December 18 2019, @06:21AM (1 child)
You forgot to add the keyword "of other Italians". Italy was quite happy to genocide Libyans (they were running concentration camps there long before the Nazis did), targeting civilians in bombing campaigns (Ethiopia/Eritrea), use of banned weapons like dum-dum bullets (Ethiopia), mass killings of civilians (Ethiopia again) alongside more concentration camps, etc. They were just as bad as the Nazis, however they were clever enough to mostly perform their mass killings and war crimes in Africa, which made it OK.
Oh, and the Allies turned a blind eye after the war.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday December 18 2019, @11:52PM
There were concentration camps in what would become yugoslavia too. In there, people died of malnutrition and illness. But regular troops were woefully underequipped and in the second half of the war I you were possibly better off prisoner of Italians than fighting in the army.
Calling it genocide is wrong, though. Not because I share the current view about genocides as somehow worse than other kind of massacres, aimed to certain social groups or certain religions. Because the correct name is "terror", and it was aimed to counter the guerrilla of the conquered ones.
This is also contrary to the way Romans conquered, so you can say Mussolini (his staff actually, he was a puppet) tragically mocked the Romans.
Infamous were the order to rape and kill given by general Graziani in Africa, and Yugoslavia had its share of terror, but allies did the same things even when less warranted (see "marocchinate").
If you want real infamy by the Italians, it is the attack on Greeks, that were basically innocent and allies.
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