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Facebook Deletes Richard Spencer's Accounts in Hate Speech Crackdown

posted by chromas on Saturday April 14 2018, @05:56PM   
from the Smells-like-censorship-or-teen-spirit dept.

aristarchus writes:

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.

Also at Engadget and Vice.

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• To Buy And Sell Requires The Mark Of The Beast To Buy And Sell Requires The Mark Of The Beast (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday April 14 2018, @08:43PM (1 child)

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday April 14 2018, @08:43PM (#667039) Homepage Journal

  It's says so right there in the book of Revelation.

  I once had the mark of the beast: most refer to them as Resale Licenses but the proper name for them is Seller's Permit.

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• Re:To Buy And Sell Requires The Mark Of The Beast (Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday April 15 2018, @01:38AM

  by Arik (4543) on Sunday April 15 2018, @01:38AM (#667115) Journal

  I'm sorry but you seem to be confused. The Orwellian appellation you are searching for is "smart phone."

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