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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by djsumdog on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:49PM (#19503704)
Yes, it's like book burning. It makes the banned content more enticing. This is the big issue with New Zealand banning the recent shooters manifesto. What if news organizations want to read it to report on it (even if it is just to say, this is why he's a nutjob)? Banning his manifesto grants it more important. It shows the government is afraid of it for some reason.

Mein Kampf is still available for purchase in NZ. I've personally looked through his manifesto and think it should be discussed in schools, so students and teachers can explore his breaks in logic and contradictory statements. If you understand people like that, maybe you can identify them early on, or encourage attitudes in general that would prevent those xenophobic ideas from developing.

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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by anigbrowl on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:21PM (#19504902)
You can get a waiver from the NZ censor for having copies of that material if you're a scholar or researcher: https://www.classificationoffice.govt.nz/news/latest-news/ch...

it should be discussed in schools, so students and teachers can explore his breaks in logic and contradictory statements

How about the explicit calls for assassination of specific individuals, among other direct incitements to terrorism?

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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by driverdan on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:32PM (#19505012)
> You can get a waiver from the NZ censor

The fact that NZ has a censor is abhorrent.

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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by simple_phrases on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @04:45PM (#19505840)
US has censored fundamentalist Muslim extremist material in concert with Twitter and Google since at least 2009.

Where were the free speech advocates back then? And why are they so vocal now that the extremists are a different skin color?

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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by driverdan on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @05:52PM (#19506469)
Twitter and Google are not government entities and can remove any content they want. That does not make the content illegal.
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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by chillacy on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:23PM (#19504921)
Copycat violence is a thing, when you offer people to make a political statement and then get immortalized, history has proven that people will take you up on that.

Secondly regarding the most recent NZ manifesto, it isn't a well argued thesis as much as a dump of memes and shitposting.

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