Censorship gone too far?

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Facebook bans UK far right groups and leaders

Now a load of those included are totally nasty individuals and dangerous groups...

But has this gone a bit far?

Personally I think banning some of said people/organisations often has a negative effect...

Far better to be able to see/hear what the tw*ts are trying to say, as it's usually very easy to argue against their warped philosophies...
(Remember laughing stock Nick Griffin on question time?)

Drive them underground and that simply fuels the hatred!

And there are a few world leaders who spout hate but appear to be able to comment away, thus double standards appear to apply!
 
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Now a load of those included are totally nasty individuals and dangerous groups...
But has this gone a bit far?
There are some really spiteful individuals who invent gossip, which gets passed around, added to, and is usually offensively abusive.
One example:
How duchess is abused over race and pregnancy
https://news.sky.com/video/the-trolling-of-meghan-markle-11696249

But every fairytale has its antagonists, and the trolls in this story don't hide under bridges - they lurk behind computer screens, posting abusive messages and sharing dark conspiracy theories.
https://news.sky.com/story/trolling-of-meghan-how-duchess-is-abused-over-race-and-pregnancy-11696606

Some of the things said are truly despicable.
It reminds me of some of the things said in this forum, about Dianne Abbot, Jeremy Corbyn, David Cameron, Theresa May, and a whole host of others.
Criticise their politics, their beliefs, their ideology, their behaviour, their decisions by all means. But when the trolls resort to outright abuse, it's nothing short of outrageous misconduct.
 
Drive them underground and that simply fuels the hatred!

Exactly right.

The best platform for bad ideas is a public, open one. Expose the ideas and rhetoric to the light of day it will become apparent who is for and against.

As Lal said, put these groups underground and it perpetuates the idea that they must be silencing the truth, all that lark.
 
Exactly right.

The best platform for bad ideas is a public, open one. Expose the ideas and rhetoric to the light of day it will become apparent who is for and against.

put these groups underground and it perpetuates the idea that they must be silencing the truth, all that lark.
One of the 'wallies' agrees (y)
 
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Its the equivalent of installing speed cameras and 20mph limits because a drugged joy rider crashed at 80. They are trying to be seen as doing something to distract from all the other ills they want you to ignore.
 
It, of course, depends on who is in charge.

I am quite bemused by one of the reasons given for exclusion from the site -

"Individuals and organisations who spread hate, or attack or call for the exclusion of others on the basis of who they are, have no place on Facebook,"

 
Exactly right.

The best platform for bad ideas is a public, open one. Expose the ideas and rhetoric to the light of day it will become apparent who is for and against.

As Lal said, put these groups underground and it perpetuates the idea that they must be silencing the truth, all that lark.

Its the equivalent of installing speed cameras and 20mph limits because a drugged joy rider crashed at 80. They are trying to be seen as doing something to distract from all the other ills they want you to ignore.
Let's use an analogy:
Someone is hiding behind a door, a fence, a window, whatever, hurling insults and abuse at passers-by, maybe not all passers-by, just the ones that they have singled out. They are doing it from an anonymous vantage position. Their abuse is offensive, insulting, completely off the wall, false allegations, and they are joined by numerous others who add to that abuse, leading to a cacophony of insults and offence. It becomes a wall of offence aimed at specific individuals every time they appear in proximity to that closed, secreted, vantage, anonymous position.

Would it, should it be tolerated?
 
on the basis of who they are

rather than on the basis of what they do.

I gather you don't understand the difference between excluding someone because he IS, say, a Moslem or a Jew or a redhead; and excluding someone because he DOES commit multiple crimes of violence, and DOES stir up hatred.

You may be aware that we lock up criminals, such as Yaxley-Lennon, because of what they do, not because of what they are.





typo "is IS" corrected to "he IS"
 
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rather than on the basis of what they do.

I gather you don't understand the difference between excluding someone because is IS, say, a Moslem or a Jew or a redhead; and excluding someone because he DOES commit multiple crimes of violence, and DOES stir up hatred.

You may be aware that we lock up criminals, such as Yaxley-Lennon, because of what they do, not because of what they are.

When questioning someone's ability to understand the difference between two given examples the least we could expect is you to make some sort of sense while doing so.
 
FB can ban who it likes, its not like you pay a membership. But this is aimed at grabbing headlines under the "look we are cleaning up" PR machine.
 
Let's use an analogy:
Someone is hiding behind a door, a fence, a window, whatever, hurling insults and abuse at passers-by, maybe not all passers-by, just the ones that they have singled out. They are doing it from an anonymous vantage position. Their abuse is offensive, insulting, completely off the wall, false allegations, and they are joined by numerous others who add to that abuse, leading to a cacophony of insults and offence. It becomes a wall of offence aimed at specific individuals every time they appear in proximity to that closed, secreted, vantage, anonymous position.

Would it, should it be tolerated?
More complicated than you suggest,because they are spreading the ideas via a media site that they have agreed to abide by its terms and conditions And,should media sites be alllowed to start banning views they disagree with,,etc.Media sites are all for "free speech" but what is free and what is hate etc.Which political groups should be banned and where is the line?
 
Let's use an analogy:
Someone is hiding behind a door, a fence, a window, whatever, hurling insults and abuse at passers-by, maybe not all passers-by, just the ones that they have singled out. They are doing it from an anonymous vantage position. Their abuse is offensive, insulting, completely off the wall, false allegations, and they are joined by numerous others who add to that abuse, leading to a cacophony of insults and offence. It becomes a wall of offence aimed at specific individuals every time they appear in proximity to that closed, secreted, vantage, anonymous position.

Would it, should it be tolerated?
No it should not be tolerated.

On this forum, people get called racist without any proof.
It really is terrible
Awfully upsetting
 
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