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This is very long overdue. Interestingly, the post has no attribution or by-line, and as usual, Facebook takes no responsibility for helping spread hate (the entire post is very passive).
If you remove Holocaust denial content all you achieve is to fuel conspiracy theories. It's completely counter-productive.
This is very long overdue. Interestingly, the post has no attribution or by-line, and as usual, Facebook takes no responsibility for helping spread hate (the entire post is very passive).
This heavy-handedness isn't an encroachment on free speech but a necessary impediment to keep the spirit of free speech and free society intact, one where the tolerant voices aren't drained out by the relentlessness and irrationality of the intolerant.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Similar discussions (re Cloudflare terminates 8chan): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20616055 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20610395
Here is Facebook trying to desperately clean up in the hopes of appeasing the antitrust regulators.
Censoring opposition has not once yielded positive results in the history of the world. My personal conspiracy theory is that policies like these are subversively being used to push HD since no one could possibly be stupid enough to think this would help.
If you remove Holocaust denial content all you achieve is to fuel conspiracy theories. It's completely counter-productive.