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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: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 14 2018, @07:15PM
Why does everybody give a shit about this only now? Everybody and their grandma has seen multiple past examples of this unfolding. Not just the censorship, but the collection of data and the resulting abuse.
Theory 1: They failed to use their platform to swing the election to Hillary (they didn't crack down on "hate speech" and "Russian hackers" more quickly and aggressively).
Theory 2: It was leaked or discovered that the links between Facebook and 3-letter agencies is more intimate than at first glance -- CIA or Mossad funding, possibly an arm of the CIA or Mossad itself, and information gathered was used to blackmail important people. Senators may not post their drug usage anywhere near Facebook, but with evidence of infidelity men can and do get raped of their shekels in divorce proceedings. Rather than reveal that to the public, Facebook is being dismantled gracefully.
Theory 3: A week or two after Soros denounces Facebook, everybody magically turns against it even though they all knew or figured that Facebook was always up to Jewey business. This may also tie into theories 1 and 2.
Theory 4: What the news is telling us at face-value about this is actually the whole truth. The least likely theory.