Facebook Collaborating with Israeli Government on What Should Be Censored

Re:Facebook Collaborating with Israeli Government on What Sh... by barkbro on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:40AM (#12488635)

> Posts that call for illegal actions (such as stabbing civilians) should be removed

What about a post that calls for women to vote? Or for black people to sit in the front of the bus?

That sounds like a recipe for abuse. It would be more reasonable to only ban enticing violence, for example.

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Re:Facebook Collaborating with Israeli Government on What Sh... by tedunangst on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @12:30PM (#12489834)

So, uh, how many posts calling for women to vote has Facebook deleted?

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Re:Facebook Collaborating with Israeli Government on What Sh... by throwanem on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @12:01PM (#12489506)

> enticing violence

So, professional wrestling?

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Re:Facebook Collaborating with Israeli Government on What Sh... by lr4444lr on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @01:28PM (#12490416)

I think you're missing the point, because none of those examples have any national context. Both of them are bad within the U.S., but to say that the first is bad within the context of Saudi Arabia until last year? Well, that's just a moral opinion about another country's laws. It's not a new phenomenon.

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Re:Facebook Collaborating with Israeli Government on What Sh... by eranation on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @03:09PM (#12491294)

I agree with your point. In any case the posts that were removed were enticing violence and Israel claims that there were people that got killed as a direct result.

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