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Facebook's war on freedom of speech
Feb 6th, 2016 at 3:12pm
 
From the Gatestone Institute:


It was only a few weeks ago that Facebook was forced to back down when caught permitting anti-Israel postings, but censoring equivalent anti-Palestinian postings.

Now one of the most sinister stories of the past year was hardly even reported. In September, German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook at a UN development summit in New York. As they sat down, Chancellor Merkel’s microphone, still on, recorded Merkel asking Zuckerberg what could be done to stop anti-immigration postings being written on Facebook. She asked if it was something he was working on, and he assured her it was.

At the time, perhaps the most revealing aspect of this exchange was that the German Chancellor – at the very moment that her country was going through one of the most significant events in its post-war history – should have been spending any time worrying about how to stop public dislike of her policies being vented on social media. But now it appears that the discussion yielded consequential results.

Last month, Facebook launched what it called an “Initiative for civil courage online,” the aim of which, it claims, is to remove “hate speech” from Facebook – specifically by removing comments that “promote xenophobia.” Facebook is working with a unit of the publisher Bertelsmann, which aims to identify and then erase “racist” posts from the site. The work is intended particularly to focus on Facebook users in Germany. At the launch of the new initiative, Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, explained that, “Hate speech has no place in our society – not even on the internet.” She went to say that, “Facebook is not a place for the dissemination of hate speech or incitement to violence.” Of course, Facebook can do what it likes on its own website. What is troubling is what this organization of effort and muddled thinking reveals about what is going on in Europe.
The mass movement of millions of people – from across Africa, the Middle East and further afield – into Europe has happened in record time and is a huge event in its history. As events in Paris, Cologne and Sweden have shown, it is also by no means a series of events only with positive connotations. . . . .

The sinister thing about what Facebook is doing is that it is now removing speech that presumably almost everybody might consider racist -- along with speech that only someone at Facebook decides is "racist."
And it just so happens to turn out that, lo and behold, this idea of "racist" speech appears to include anything critical of the EU's current catastrophic immigration policy.

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7371/facebook-freedom-of-speech
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Re: Facebook's war on freedom of speech
Reply #1 - Feb 6th, 2016 at 3:39pm
 
where do you draw the line boges????.

someone could make a call to kill you and your family...because you are white.....

wouldnt you say that was WRONG.....

or is it called FREEDOM OF SPEECH....

hate is hate.. it doesnt matter who or what..

its wrong...

as long as facebook doesnt say...

ISIS cannot spread hate and death but the West can..

like it or not boges... everything today to do with this HATE has under tones of being  political.

its what ISIS wants....

country against country..you against me...

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Reply #2 - Feb 7th, 2016 at 12:42pm
 
Yes, facebook is indeed a force for social control - not only do they promote topics of their own choosing under "trending" they also delete posts they dont like without a trace, without warning or explanation.

But, it's a private company, so they can do what they want.
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Reply #3 - Feb 8th, 2016 at 9:20am
 
The manner in which the world (excluding bogarde) has taken to it (and Twitter) brings to reality the world of George Orwell.
It's mind control on a voluntary basis.
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Reply #4 - Feb 9th, 2016 at 4:08pm
 
I don't use FB.  It became so intrusive I had to ban it from my life.  It's better now, everyone should do the same.
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Reply #5 - Feb 9th, 2016 at 4:55pm
 



Facebook ?

What is Facebook ???


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"....And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."
Luke 16:31
 
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