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Posted on 05/02/2019 12:00:46 PM PDT by Red Badger
Facebook announced Thursday afternoon that it had designated some high-profile people, including Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who's notorious for using anti-Semitic language, and right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, as "dangerous" and said it will be purging them from its platforms. Jones and his media outlet InfoWars had previously been banned from Facebook (FB) in in August 2018, but had maintained a presence on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook. On Thursday, Jones and InfoWars will be barred from Instagram as well. Other people banned Thursday include fringe right-wing media personalities Laura Loomer, Milo Yiannopoulos and Paul Joseph Watson. Also included are Paul Nehlen, an anti-Semite who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2016 and 2018. "We've always banned individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology," a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement provided to CNN Business. "The process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and it is what led us to our decision to remove these accounts today."
A Facebook spokesperson told CNN Business the company goes through a lengthy process and takes into consideration a number of factors before determining an individual to be "dangerous."
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They banned one ultra antisemitic individual in order to ban a number of decent people.
The magic of Leftist logic...
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Oh, good! I won’t have to see Milo curled around his boyfriend (sans face ‘cause we are not to identify him) anymore.
You’re correct.
Congress accepts all that sweet ca$h from them, however. So, forget it.
Any ideas?
Facebook is a LIBERAL SUPREMACIST organization.
Zuck will use the Farrakhan banning as cover to ban all conservatives.
They can't keep up!
I don’t use/visit Facebook but what advertisers are keeping this turkey going ?
Barack Obama’s friend and guest Louis FarrKKKhan.
I smell cover for banning Laura Loomer and her peers.
It is not advertising that supports facebook. It is their invasive, stealthy taking of user data and selling it to companies who want to use the information for their own enrichment.
Advertising is a mere shadow of the evil perpetuated by Facebook. (I am on the platform - when I want to chat with my wife while I am overseas.)
What Google, YouTube, Facebook, and similar social media platforms should do is provide a feature where users can set their own preferences as to who is blocked within the users’ sphere of activity on the platforms. This would allow the platforms to be self-regulating.
However, in their desire for godlike powers they prefer to hang onto this control. So, they implement burdensome processes that can never filter everything to anyone’s satisfaction.
Because these big companies are accepting responsibility for the content on their platforms, they should become liable for ALL content. If violence or other crimes are committed due to threats or other salacious content, their deep pockets should be accessed in the courts of law to pay for the damage done. If (and this should be “since”) intellectual property rights are violated, these companies should pay the fines and damages including actual and punitive for failing to stop IP theft on their platforms. They should be subject to forensic accounting in order to verify that such IP rights have not been abused.
Ping to Semimojo.
The only reason Farrakhan is on this list, is to have cover to ban the others.
Milo was a bit too fabulous for me but he laid bare the damage done by feminazis in the modern western world. Can’t have that.
But who is going to hold them to those standards? Congress sure isn’t. And after a few comments about “deplatforming” last fall, even the White House seems to have gone back to sleep on this particular issue. The tech corporations will do whatever they want, with the expectation that no one will make them stop. And this far, they have been absolutely correct.
When WE own the platforms...
We’ll be FREE.
Let my people GO.
I see that James Woods is back in “Twitter Jail” again.
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