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Meta's Oversight Board rules that 'from the river to the sea' is not necessarily hate speech
NBC ^ | 9/4/24 | David Ingram

Posted on 09/04/2024 12:00:23 PM PDT by hardspunned

The independent Oversight Board for Instagram and Facebook ruled Wednesday that the phrase “from the river to the sea” is not necessarily hate speech when addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The ruling means that people on Meta-owned social media apps can continue to use the phrase in comments and posts, as long as there’s no overriding context that would otherwise be deemed problematic by Meta, such as violent language, legitimization of hate or calls for excluding others from territory, the board said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Israel
KEYWORDS: facebook; hatespeech; meta; palestinkians; rivertothesea; speech
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What hate speech?

It is the cause of the war. It is a goal espoused by both sides.

Censoring the reasons both sides go to war makes no sense.

1 posted on 09/04/2024 12:00:23 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

Well, from the River Euphrates to the Red Ssa was Solomon’s empire. So it’s OK for Israel to use that as a slogan?


2 posted on 09/04/2024 12:16:53 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: hardspunned

dear Meta:
what a morally bankrupt and frankly downright Disgusting perversion of a decision!

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”

We can’t tell from the report whether you’re
1. outright Nazi/antisemites, or
2. all-too-blissfully ignorant, or
3. getting paid off to enable Arab terrorist propaganda.

Please advise which category is most accurate. Thank you.


3 posted on 09/04/2024 12:23:35 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: hardspunned

‘from the river to the sea’ basically means “let’s wipe out all the Jews”.

But I guess it’s said with love.


4 posted on 09/04/2024 12:25:36 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: hardspunned

5 posted on 09/04/2024 12:26:48 PM PDT by knarf
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To: hardspunned
So Meta wouldn't have a problem with

"From the river to the sea, let's kill all muslim Palis"

6 posted on 09/04/2024 12:27:59 PM PDT by roadcat ( )
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To: roadcat
Agreed!
From every river,
To every sea,
Make all the world
islamist free!

7 posted on 09/04/2024 12:54:24 PM PDT by budj (Combat vet, second of three generations.)
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To: hardspunned

I agree


8 posted on 09/04/2024 1:18:56 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: hardspunned

Free Speech, means free speech.


9 posted on 09/04/2024 1:20:05 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: hardspunned

nothing hateful about genocide.


10 posted on 09/04/2024 2:07:30 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: hardspunned

Insane. It literally means “push the Jews into the sea.”


11 posted on 09/04/2024 2:59:23 PM PDT by Tom in Seattle
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To: hardspunned

You damn well know what the pro Hamas faction means when they use that phrase. It is a call to kill all the Jews. Nothing less.

To deny this is to ignore reality. Meta is siding with the Jew hating pro Hamas faction taking over our country.


12 posted on 09/04/2024 3:05:03 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: cowboyusa

Meta has not ever been a free speech platform.


13 posted on 09/04/2024 3:06:10 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: hardspunned

It’s a “dog whistle”. You know the thing Liberals always accuse Conservatives of saying.


14 posted on 09/04/2024 3:06:16 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: hardspunned

Is Judenfrei hate speech?


15 posted on 09/04/2024 3:14:35 PM PDT by omega4412
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To: hardspunned

16 posted on 09/04/2024 3:57:39 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Propaganda keeps only governments in business, not corporations. —John Nolte)
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To: packrat35

You damned well know what Netanyahu means when HE proclaims “From River to the Sea”! And he puts his actions where his vile mouth is. It means GENOCIDE!

https://youtu.be/8V96T8rIkFc?si=WLhRhreH1sVf0MPW


17 posted on 09/04/2024 4:11:59 PM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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To: Albion Wilde

“from river to the sea” means genocide when it comes out of Netanyahu’s vile mouth.

https://youtu.be/8V96T8rIkFc?si=4NkQy23zxHU_7Q-K


18 posted on 09/04/2024 4:15:09 PM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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To: hardspunned

You were doing so well, but now you have turned stupid again. Israel is being too SOFT In fighting Hamas.


19 posted on 09/04/2024 4:20:07 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: hardspunned

Never liked it before it was called Meta.

Like it even less now.

My family uses it a lot. Doesn’t entice me at all.


20 posted on 09/04/2024 4:27:18 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands. )
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