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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: 3, Funny) by jmorris on Sunday April 15 2018, @06:38AM
The freedom fighters you seek are at Gab, working on something they call the "Exodus Protocol" which will supposedly permit the current gab.ai to be replaced with a version that operates in a similar way to the end users yet be cryptographically impregnable to all attempt to censor, by gab, by their upstream name service and hosting providers, even nation state actors. Whether it can actually be done remains to be seen. Work began (or was announced to the public) when political pressure from upstream forced them to ban weev.