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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: 2) by jmorris on Sunday April 15 2018, @07:46AM

    by jmorris (4844) on Sunday April 15 2018, @07:46AM (#667196)

    Ah, you're saying they're just like the right.

    I tire of these lame attempts to declare "both sides do it" and thus distract attention from the current atrocity committed by the Left. The Right is pretty unified on the idea of Freedom of Speech being a good thing. As an example, a quote from today's Gab stream by a someone who was dis-employed by a Twitter/Media Rage Mob for his "dangerous ideas that are out of the mainstream" posted a draft version of a "National Right" manifesto including the following two points bearing on this discussion:

    Free speech

    To promote our ideas and the essential conversations between different groups to decide the best path forward for our nation, we support unrestricted free speech across all platforms and vehemently oppose efforts at censorship by both governmental and corporate actors.

    Free association

    Americans have the right to identify with and work with whichever people they so choose so long as they do not harm another. The long inquisition of political correctness which has been used to intimidate people into silence must be confronted and defeated as people join together to express their honest feelings without threat of reprisal.

    Nope, no attempt to censor there, that is about as clear as the 1st Amendment itself.

    Or another gab user posted the following gag:

    Nazis: We need to stop blowing up brown people and ensure people have the right to criticize government without retaliation.

    Hippies: No.

    If this poster some moderate or such? Gab user profiles have a spot for a short quotation, here is this user's:

    I used to support diversity initiatives in my field, but the harder I tried, diversity further abused and gaslit me. Now I seek an identity separate from my abuser, diversity. I am strong, I know the abuse isn’t my fault no matter what it screams. I won’t let it hurt me or scare me. I am free.

    Nope, sounds like a dirty double plus ungood crimethinker to me. And clearly supports Free Speech.

    The Constitutional Conservative Right of course supports the 1st Amendment absolutely because "muh Constitution" and all that. The Libertarian Right also agrees while the Libertarian Left says "Bake the effing cake, bigot." The only faction right of center who doesn't support the idea of free speech are some of the NRx types who think we suffer from a lack of a King. A few black pillers like Vox Day are saying that if the Left seems intent to revive blasphemy laws we should oblige them and show them the folly of their way. Pretty sure he would be willing to settle for a peace where the Left agrees to stop their current course but he, probably correctly, assumes they lack the ability to see consequences or the will to change course.

    Face it, the Left started openly calling for the repeal of the 1st Amendment in the raging butthurt over losing Citizens United and haven't stopped. But they effectively announced their departure from a belief in freedom of speech years before with their fetish for "hate speech" laws. Now they openly call for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment. If you support Truth, Justice and the American Way the Democratic Party must be your enemy for they certainly consider you their enemy.

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