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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 aristarchus on Sunday April 15 2018, @06:49AM (2 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday April 15 2018, @06:49AM (#667184) Journal

    Censorship is almost always wrong.

    Your idea intrigues me. Let us set the full syllogism in order:

    Censorship is almost always wrong.
    Runaway is almost always wrong.

    Too much to be mere coincidence. So we may conclude:
    ⊨Runaway is censorship.

    Ancillary corollary conclusion:
    ⊨Runaway must be censored.

    You can't argue with logic. Or at least that appears to be the case, judging from your posting history.

    言 者 不 知, 知 者 不 言

    Laozi

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 15 2018, @11:07AM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 15 2018, @11:07AM (#667230) Journal

    Let us set the full syllogism in order

    Few people have minds so warped that they can follow your "logic". You are in a class all by yourself, somewhere over in La-La land.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Sunday April 15 2018, @08:30PM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday April 15 2018, @08:30PM (#667378) Journal

      Sorry! You are correct! Pursuant to your final surmise:

      In fact, censorship is so seldom right, that we can ignore those few instances where it might be right.

      the appropriate parallel construction should have been:

      In fact, censorship Runaway is so seldom right, that we can ignore those few instances where it he might be right.

      Thank you for your intervention! And remember! All Cretans are liars, and it's true because one them even said so! So, clearly, Runaway is not correct, even if he is. (The "Man in Black" says: "Truly, you have a dizzy intellect!")