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On the Daily Dot:
The Facebook pages of Richard Spencer, the alt-right leader who was famously punched in the face last year, have been suspended.
The pages for the National Policy Institute, a lobbying group of sorts for white nationalists, and Spencer's online magazine "altright.com," vanished on Friday after Vice sent the social network an inquiry about hate groups. They had a combined following of almost 15,000 followers.
The action was taken just days after Mark Zuckerberg emphasized during his testimony before Congress that Facebook does not allow hate speech. But it wasn't until Vice flagged the accounts that Facebook suspended them. The social network said in a statement that it identifies violating pages using human monitors, algorithms, and partnerships with organizations.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @06:30PM (4 children)
I think we should be more saddened that Facebook exists in any way, shape, or form. Not having an account is not enough to stop them entirely from violating your privacy, since other people can upload pictures of you without permission and tag your name. I wish Facebook would delete itself. Or, perhaps even less likely, maybe we could get some real privacy laws in this country and then Facebook's business model would be destroyed.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @06:35PM
Facebook just happens to be the most public example of that at this time.
It used to be librarians and postmen had a solemn duty to keep the confidentiality of your choice of literature and the contents of your mail. Then the phone company started listening in on unwarranted calls, collecting metadata, and slowly we morphed from a culture of privacy conscious folk differentiating ourselves from the communists by our pride in our privacy and anonymity into another proto-fascist communist-like regime.
Right or Left, you're now Redder than the Russians. I hope you're proud, because your Homeland demands your acquiescence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 15 2018, @12:51AM (1 child)
It's your privacy and your web activity. Seems to me it's your responsibility to protect yourself while online. If you go traipsing all over the internet, and then complain that websites saw you visit them, you may not understand how the world works.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 15 2018, @02:08AM
You didn't read the comment at all, I see. Other people uploading pictures of you without your permission to monstrous surveillance engines like Facebook has nothing to do with websites seeing you visited them. Facebook has shadow profiles of people who don't even use their disservice. We need real privacy laws to prevent that sort of thing.
For the record, I use addons such as uMatrix to block all third party junk by default.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @09:34AM
General Data Protection Regulation not good enough? Or you're not in the European Union?