Facebook bans Britain First and its leaders

theguardian.com

18 points·janeboo··9 comments

Yeah, while they're at it, could they please ban all political figures? I dislike their positions either.

Nice. The paradox of tolerance is that we must always be intolerant of the intolerant.

About time. Why should criminal activity and harassment be supported? You can have all the rights you're entitled too, provided you don't trample on other people's.

So, private entities get to decide what are criminal activities? We live in interesting times, for sure.

Maybe read the article, because the reason for the ban was “repeatedly posted content designed to incite animosity and hatred against minority groups”.

Also currently most of the regulators around the world is pushing facebook to ban hate speech.

Care what you wish for. As much as I dislike the content, I will vigorously defend the right for free speech.

That regulators are pushing for it doesn't make it a good thing. What is "hatespeech" anyway? Antisemitism? Mean things about women? Mean things about other people, Reddit is full of it. Who is to decide?

Rule of law requires a clear definition of what is required to be compliant. Please come up with a definition of hatespeech which people can agree upon.

I don't think that suppressing speech is the right way to handle dissent, even in its most appalling forms. This will not make the problem go away but just sweep it under the rug (a bit).

They've literally been sentenced with hate crimes in the UK, so actually the UK judicial system decided what were criminal activities and Facebook merely followed suit.

Ignorance is bliss. Let's sweep them under the rug.

Yes, without the Britain First Facebook page, how will we ever know that xenophobes exist?

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