The Social Justice Network: Facebook announces sweeping new restrictions on criticism of protected groups.

City Journal ^ | July 22, 2021 | Arthur Milikh

[karpov]

The battle over permissible speech in American society was helpfully, and predictably, elaborated by Facebook last week in an update to its “hate speech” rules. The social media giant’s changes are a signal of the new limits being placed on political expression and the freedom of the mind. Other major American institutions are almost sure to follow its lead.

Until recently, most online platforms largely defined “hate speech” as speech that could lead to imminent physical harm. But Facebook now demands that its users “not post” speech critical of “concepts, institutions, ideas, practices, or beliefs associated with protected characteristics, which are likely to contribute to imminent physical harm, intimidation or discrimination against the people associated with that protected characteristic.”

“Protected characteristics,” according to Facebook, include “race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity and serious disease.” On its face, this sounds neutral and universally applicable. Yet anyone following the matter knows that it is inconceivable, for instance, that Facebook would ban critiques of “cisgenderism,” a concept whose purpose is to attack heterosexuality and the legitimacy of the generative family. It is similarly unimaginable that protected groups would be blocked from criticizing American constitutionalism as a construct of “whiteness.” Oppressor groups, after all, do not possess “protected characteristics.”

Discrimination once meant denying housing, access to public accommodations, or employment to people based on immutable characteristics. This, of course, was corrected by civil rights laws. But discrimination now means speech that protected groups find insulting. In other words, the last place where discrimination exists is in the minds of oppressor groups.

This new view of discrimination conflicts with the basic requirements of political liberty. It means, for instance, that speech defending the traditional family harms the self-respect of LGBTQ people;

[coloradan]

I’m getting whiplash from the rapid acceleration of the Overton window.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Why does anyone still go on Fecebook?

[TnTnTn]

Well they can censor themselves…

[bantam]

“Why does anyone still go on Fecebook?”
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So much THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rktman]

So, promoting nambla or other deviant activity/behavior is okee dokee and opposing such is verboten. I see. Guess I’d have to open an account so I could close it.

[DaiHuy]

I have a facebook account only because my GF opened it in my name. Once she is gone, it is gone. I use it for a couple of Viet Nam Vet groups and to keep in touch with family. I am on about once every two months, maybe. Really if it weren’t for that I would not use it at all

[Carl Vehse]

Lurkinanloomin @3: "Why does anyone still go on Fecebook?"

"Fecebook" is definitely an accurate (and will be copied) description.

[Sacajaweau]

So if you wrote a ditty on Sodom and Gomorrah...it would get deleted.

[Pollard]

“Protected characteristics,” according to Facebook, include “race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity and serious disease.”

“Protected characteristics,” according to Facebook, include everyone that's not white and straight aka cisgender.

[BenLurkin]

[subterfuge]

This leads to the inevitable reeducation camps and death for those who won’t be reeducated for our posts right here on FRee Republic. The final Final solution.

[Scrambler Bob]

My local police department does most news releases and crime reports on FB.

Many small businesses use FB to advertise, inform, and communicate.

Even Govt facilities use FB to communicate and inform current and future employees, and the general public.

Most times I can only get limited access to their info.

I may need a FakeFaceBook account.

[fwdude]

You can’t even talk about HIV or AIDS in even the slightest negative sense on YouTube comments or the comment will automatically be deleted.

[fwdude]

Is MySpace still around? I might think about opening an account there.

[Lurkinanloomin]

I tell them all I don’t do Fecebook.

[Steely Tom]

What about things that bother or inconvenience "protected groups" ?

Like discussions about math, or the law. Those going to be "restricted" too ?

[CivilWarBrewing]

Facebook and Twitter have BOTH risen to the level of being public utilities..

As a side note, Mark Zuckerberg should be in federal prison. He helped orchestrate the THEFT of the 2020 election to include using Facebook profile data to select poll workers who would CHEAT FOR JOE, etc.. This was a long-planned, MASSIVE operation and Zucky boy was KNEE DEEP in it.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Same

[Freee-dame]

Adding “gender identity” to the list of legally protected classes is why the entire Senate rushed back to DC after the Jussie Smollet conspiracy. It was spearheaded by none other than Kamala Harris to add it to the so-called Anti-lunching legislation. Lynching, which once meant hanging a person before any type of due process for the accused, was expanded to include any bodily harm done by two or more people to a person in a protected class.