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No Antifa? Why, of course not. What's a few dead people and billions of dollars in damage between friends.
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Is there a stated goal for this list? There's around 1k names in the list but over 400k homicides worldwide every year. I assume there's lots more hate and misc. crimes every year, so what's the usefulness of having only 1k users flagged?
No Antifa? Why, of course not. What's a few dead people and billions of dollars in damage between friends.
[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/antifa-protests-george...
[2]: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/04/white-supremacists-...
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Ah, I was getting it mixed up with the thrift store.
That's probably deliberate. An intentional name collision seems a good way to run a front.
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Long dead Hitler and Goebbels are included too, but why stop there? Where's Joseph Stalin and Vlad the Impaler. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21083819/pages/facebo...
And don't get me started on the Romans. After the Romans captured Carthage they murdered 450,000 of its inhabitants. This makes Caesar's Place in Las Vegas very culturally problematic.
Huh. There's a lot bands in the "Hate" section. Looking up the various names I'm finding various death metal and black metal bands. I can't help but wonder how many of those bands on are on that list because someone at Facebook took heavy metal imagery and lyrical themes too seriously and literally. More Edit: Turns out I picked a bad example. I missed reference to a name collision with an actual National Socialist b…
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They have Adolf Hitler on the list, he is dead as far as I know unless Facebook as confirm the conspiracy that he never died?
Everyone missing the bleeding obvious: keywords for their moderation bots, if post contains keyword, flag it for manual moderation, or even downrank it so it doesn't show up that often in news feeds. Although with how much the MAGA-crowd evokes the name of Hitler/Nazis to compare the current administration with it, maybe not...
Okay, but I want you to acknowledge just how much Blue Team did this exact same thing during the last administration.
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"Seattle Antifascist Action" is on the list. What is the name of the missing group you're complaining about?
I did not see the PNW Youth Liberation Front and John Brown Gun Club (among others)
hm... Half of the Organizations in the "Hate: category seem to be based in Germany. Almost all of the Organizations in the "Terror" category seem to be Islamic. In the category "Crime" Brazil is overly represented. There seem to be a shocking amount of "Armed Militia Groups". I was surprised to find that "A.K. Chesterton" is affiliated with the "British Union of Fascists" ?? Is that correct? I seemed to be confusing…
Likely matches what the respective countries or organizations there put pressure on Facebook for, or which pose a legal problem for Facebook there. E.g. lots of German neonazi stuff in the hate category.
I am honestly surprised that style of enforcement isn't more common internationally.
(edit: got a detail wrong: the team does not need to physically be in germany, but facebooks is)