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

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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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 15 2018, @02:11AM (4 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday April 15 2018, @02:11AM (#667124) Journal

    So drag the intolerant out into the sunlight and show, by being better-informed, wittier, and a better person, WHY they are wrong. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. This idea of just shutting them down completely creeps me the hell out. If they want to do something like that they need to show that this guy and others are actually breaking laws. Until then, the proper response is a combination of ignoring them and ridiculing them six ways from Sunday as they richly deserve.

    If nothing else, this feeds right into their stupid fucking persecution complex. These people *want* to martyrs for the cause. What they don't want is being forced to live while their cause collapses around them in a landslide of scorn and ridicule. Don't censor the alt-right: send them up as the stupid, foolish, dangerous clowns they are.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by jmorris on Sunday April 15 2018, @07:56AM (3 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Sunday April 15 2018, @07:56AM (#667200)

    What if they don't want to debate you? The left is increasingly of the belief that the best debating tactic is to simply punch their opponents until they shut up or die. Meanwhile Islam teaches that the best rebuttal is cutting off their opponent's head.

    Those examples point the way to a useful definition of the bounds of tolerance. Tolerance for all those willing to openly engage in a debate but not just censorship for those unwilling, expulsion from our lands if possible and death if it isn't. Total exclusion from anyone entering our civilization who is known to be antithetical to its continued existence and absolutely zero apology or guilt tripping over it. Rule one must be survival in any rational moral code.

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 15 2018, @02:38PM (1 child)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday April 15 2018, @02:38PM (#667276) Journal

      Oh, I agree there with that last sentence, and with it, you have simply restated the Paradox :) Thing is, though, people like you and with your beliefs *are* dangerous to society's continued survival.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 15 2018, @06:13PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 15 2018, @06:13PM (#667343)

        Bingo. Jmorris, the goose stepping martyr. Oh wait, he's not martyr, he's just another loser that hopes for a martyr to suffer instead.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 21 2018, @04:42AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 21 2018, @04:42AM (#669957)

      What if they don't want to debate you? The left is increasingly of the belief that the best debating tactic is to simply punch their opponents until they shut up or die. Meanwhile Islam teaches that the best rebuttal is cutting off their opponent's head.

      And what do your compatriots do? Oh, they're such bastions of tolerance by comparison! Absolute, sturdy bastions of tolerance! So tolerant that they will crush the people [wikipedia.org] who disagree with them!