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Post by refenestrator »

bellyfullofbac wrote: post #64
syshum wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Consider it an anti-godwin measure and it's still a win, whoever is saying it.

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Post by m0zg »

woodruffw wrote: post #73
m0zg wrote: post #61

No Antifa? Why, of course not. What's a few dead people and billions of dollars in damage between friends.

The FBI and DHS, two agencies whose relationships with America's left have never been described as "friendly," have consistently determined that antifascists are neither organized as a movement[1] nor a serious violent threat to the United States[2]. [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/antifa-protests-george... [2]: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/04/white-supremacists-...

Same FBI that's about to start arresting "terrorist" parents for having the temerity to speak at school board meetings? That FBI?

https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/575658-fbi-shou...

https://www.newsweek.com/concerned-about-your-childs-school-...

Don't rely so heavily on "fact checks" - their sole raison d'etre is to provide ammo to the "official" narrative peddlers nowadays. Read the original letter.

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Post by woodruffw »

hasdf wrote: post #89
woodruffw wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The FBI and DHS, two agencies whose relationships with America's left have never been described as "friendly," have consistently determined that antifascists are neither organized as a movement[1] nor a serious violent threat to the United States[2]. [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/antifa-protests-george... [2]: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/04/white-supremacists-...

oh come on the FBI is absurdly left wing and political right now

Far be it from me to defend the FBI, but it's actually probably the least political it has ever been in its sordid history. The FBI was explicitly aligned with far-right American politics for the better part of 50 years[1], and has only (publicly) cleaned up its act with respect to that in the last 25. The idea that the FBI is "left wing" is impossible to entertain seriously.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover

Re: Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Reproduced Snapshot)

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Post by woodruffw »

m0zg wrote: post #92
woodruffw wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The FBI and DHS, two agencies whose relationships with America's left have never been described as "friendly," have consistently determined that antifascists are neither organized as a movement[1] nor a serious violent threat to the United States[2]. [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/antifa-protests-george... [2]: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/04/white-supremacists-...

Same FBI that's about to start arresting "terrorist" parents for having the temerity to speak at school board meetings? That FBI? https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/575658-fbi-shou... https://www.newsweek.com/concerned-about-your-childs-school-... Don't rely so heavily on "fact checks" - their sole raison d'etre is to provide ammo to the "official" narrative peddlers nowadays. Read the original letter.

I genuinely don't know what you're referring to. You should probably provide links.

Edit: All of the recent FBI stories I can find are about a manhunt for a (presumed) murderer or about the nuclear espionage case.

Edit 2: This is the only reference I was able to find[1]. It sounds like the current governor of Florida falsely claimed that the FBI is "going after" parents. It's not clear what "going after" means, or where that came from.

[1]: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/oct/11/rick-scott...

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Post by labster »

barbacoa wrote: post #58
gorwell wrote: post #37

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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.

How does it make Caesar’s Palace problematic? The Punic Wars were long over by the time Julius Caesar was fighting Gauls. He literally overthrew the republic which caused that mass murder in Carthage a century earlier.

Are you trying to be sarcastic? Satire is dead because no one can tell any more. The internet is so vast that at least a few people have your absurd opinion, possibly including you.

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Post by Angostura »

robbedpeter wrote: post #90
gorwell wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Why not Marx and Mao? Could never understand why some murder memes are OK but others are not.

Stalin, perhaps. Not sure Marx particularly advocated murder.

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Post by andyxor »

dragonwriter wrote: post #86
andyxor wrote: post #66

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And how about the indigenous Inca & Maya people, nobody wants to see their human sacrifice culture celebrated on Facebook (Mel Gibson exposed the ugly truth in Apocalypto) And the Spanish Inquisition, Bluebeard, Ivan The Terrible, Robespierre, Lenin, Beelzebub and Donald J. Trump? The ban list is way too short.

> And how about the indigenous Inca people, nobody wants to see their human sacrifice culture celebrated on Facebook (Mel Gibson exposed the ugly truth in Apocalypto) Apocalypto focussed on the Maya, who aren't even from the same continent as the Inca.

You’re right I always mix them up, corrected

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Post by LinuxBender »

lsiebert wrote: post #51
bitlax wrote: post #5

So what's the deal with the militia groups? Are these groups listed particularly heinous groups or is this an editorial decision by Facebook, that they don't want militia groups to organize using their platform?

all 50 states prohibit private militia groups. https://www.npr.org/2020/08/30/907720068/are-citizen-militia... "...But one thing is consistent - all 50 states have some provision in their state law, whether it's their state constitution or their state statutes, that prohibits private militia, private paramilitary activity. And that's also the case in Wisconsin. In addition, many states, including Wisconsin, prohibit…

Could there be a loophole if a group instead of calling themselves a private militia, instead calls themselves a {insert whatever} activist group and instead of paramilitary activity, they practice {insert whatever} peace protests? Asking because some of the organized groups in the past few years on the media appear to be heavily armed, organized and quite destructive.

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Post by [deleted] »

labster wrote: post #95
barbacoa wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

How does it make Caesar’s Palace problematic? The Punic Wars were long over by the time Julius Caesar was fighting Gauls. He literally overthrew the republic which caused that mass murder in Carthage a century earlier. Are you trying to be sarcastic? Satire is dead because no one can tell any more. The internet is so vast that at least a few people have your absurd opinion, possibly including you.

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