Removing Holocaust Denial Content • Hacker News Board

Re: Removing Holocaust Denial Content

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Post by pavel_lishin » Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 2:54 PM UTC

roseway4 wrote: post #36

samename wrote: post #19

The unchecked power Zuck and co have has global implications for every tiny decision they make. Who gave them this power? What makes them the best people to be making these decisions? Can we always trust them to get it right?

Facebook is a private entity. Facebook’s shareholders have given Mark Zuckerberg and his management team the power to manage the company as they see fit. If users disagree with the terms and conditions of using the site, they don’t have to use it.

This is an accurate description of how things are, but they don't have to be that way.

Re: Removing Holocaust Denial Content

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Post by quotha » Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 2:54 PM UTC

IN FACEBOOK WE TRUST

Re: Removing Holocaust Denial Content

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Post by netmonk » Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 2:55 PM UTC

runarberg wrote: post #18

jimbob45 wrote: post #15

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.

Hasn’t it? Do you have any examples, or should I just take your word for it?

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Re: Removing Holocaust Denial Content

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Post by rkachowski » Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 2:55 PM UTC

Is this an international policy change? In Germany holocaust denial is straight up illegal, so I imagine posts are have been required to be removed since the inception of Facebook. It's kinda weird to see that this is only now a thing.

Re: Removing Holocaust Denial Content

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Post by charliebrownau » Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 2:55 PM UTC

Youtuber Kyle Myers (FPSRussia) debunks the holohoax

https://www.bitchute.com/video/N3wwBY3SSfnZ/

#history #holohoax #jews #finalsolution #protected

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AUSTRALIAN MAN JAILED FOR CALLING ZIONIST PROTESTOR A "RACIST JEW" 2011

- https://www.bitchute.com/video/AeI3amQlYTxx/

#Australia #jews #hate-speech #racism #corrupt-state

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The great replacement is a racist sexist antisemitic conspiracy theory -

https://www.bitchute.com/video/3NIkn3qNq60z/

#Zoinism #Jews #ISRAEL #Great-replacment #Multiculturalism

WE WERE NEVER ASKED

It was a JEW in USA and AU that un did white only immergration

Re: Removing Holocaust Denial Content

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Post by 082349872349872 » Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 2:55 PM UTC

vorpalhex wrote: post #40

ignoramous wrote: post #14

Admirable move. I think Facebook (and all its properties), Twitter, and other hyper-connected social networks must show a healthy level of intolerance towards groups and ideologies that are beyond reason and recall, especially when those said groups are overtly and unmistakably intolerant themselves. This heavy-handedness isn't an encroachment on free speech but a necessary impediment to keep the spirit of free speec…

How would you have them weigh in on the Armenian Genocide, Holodomor, or Tianenman? Each of those conflicts has deniers of various levels, some of whom are states. And, if Facebook gets it wrong (and perhaps decides the Tianenman square massacre was a hoax by the West to discredit the CCP) - how should we respond then? This is a company that was censoring pictures of mothers feeding their babies, but still has conten…

Getting it wrong implies they need to make a choice.

Does Facebook need to show the same feed to everyone? I had had the impression they tailored it.

Re: Removing Holocaust Denial Content

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Post by FartyMcFarter » Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 2:55 PM UTC

Mangalor wrote: post #57

roseway4 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook is a private entity. Facebook’s shareholders have given Mark Zuckerberg and his management team the power to manage the company as they see fit. If users disagree with the terms and conditions of using the site, they don’t have to use it.

In reality it's like Comcast. You could theoretically switch ISPs, but realistically and in practice it's a monopoly.

A monopoly on what? Spamming users with cat videos / baby videos and various other irrelevancies?

I haven't used Facebook for many years and I can contact family and friends just fine. Granted I use WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, but WhatsApp doesn't suffer from censorship (to my knowledge).

Re: Removing Holocaust Denial Content

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Post by fit2rule » Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 2:55 PM UTC

This is an admirable move.

I sure hope that it means its going to be harder for people to deny current era war crimes and crimes against humanity, too. That is way, way overdue.

Re: Removing Holocaust Denial Content

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Post by dudul » Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 2:55 PM UTC

Mangalor wrote: post #57

roseway4 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook is a private entity. Facebook’s shareholders have given Mark Zuckerberg and his management team the power to manage the company as they see fit. If users disagree with the terms and conditions of using the site, they don’t have to use it.

In reality it's like Comcast. You could theoretically switch ISPs, but realistically and in practice it's a monopoly.

One nuance being that while having access to an ISP is becoming more and more of a necessity to function in today's society, one can live a very happy life without Facebook :)

Re: Removing Holocaust Denial Content

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Post by malikNF » Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 2:56 PM UTC

About time fb started taking this kind of misinformation serious. From the article I am still having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact

>>According to a recent survey of adults in the US aged 18-39, almost a quarter said they believed the Holocaust was a myth, that it had been exaggerated or they weren’t sure.

Like how does something like this even happen in a first world country, as someone from outside the US someone who grew up thinking the US had an excellent education system and kids there had more access to data the world and almost everything, I honestly am having a very hard time processing the fact that this many people believe the holocaust didn't happen or was exaggerated. Is this a failure in the education system? Like, what the hell is this?