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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 15 2018, @02:38AM
The "seven words" are unconstitutionally government-imposed, since there are penalties involved. The idea that these rules are constitutional because it's a public broadcast is entirely without merit, since if they tried to ban (for example) people from advocating Christianity over public broadcasts, suddenly people would cry about the first amendment. So it's all just special pleading nonsense used to censor very specific speech that some people are offended by.