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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: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 15 2018, @11:05AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 15 2018, @11:05AM (#667229) Journal

    Bullshit. If society is run as a democracy, then enough atheists, other theists, and even Christians accept the idea of evolution, that the Christains aren't going to censor out evolution. I suppose that you have citations for one church or another condoning that genocide? Which one, specifically? Accusations flew, sure, but as far as I can see, no religious leaders were convicted. It's equally likely that the non-Christians leveled charges against every Christian they could find, just because they could.

    Free speech, bitch. You can say what you want - I can say what I want. What's more, any swinging dick in the world can log in, and have his say. Even better, those people who don't have dicks can log in to say anything they want.

    Funny thing is - jmorris and people who agree with him and I actually like hearing what all the other morons have to say. You? You're just an intolerant shit. You want to censor all of us who disagree with you. Back to my post, to which you responded: You disagree with me, but you have no rational argument. You're a loser.

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