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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by commandlinefan on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:50PM (#19503719)
You're misunderstanding (or deliberately misrepresenting) what free-speech absolutists are saying. Nobody is saying that Facebook should be "forced" to host any particular content, any more than anybody is saying that homedepot.com should be forced to host any particular content. What we are saying is that Facebook is no longer a platform for free and open exchange of idea and is engaging in censorship - and it's open season to point out that everything that they _don't_ censor (e.g. calls for violence against politically unprotected groups) is something that they explicitly condone.
Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by _dczq on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @02:01PM (#19503890)
==What we are saying is that Facebook is no longer a platform for free and open exchange of idea and is engaging in censorship==

When was this ever not the case? Violent imagery and sexual nudity are already not allowed.

Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by bilbo0s on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @02:02PM (#19503912)
>What we are saying is that Facebook is no longer a platform for free and open exchange of idea...

???

It never was.

I couldn't watch porn movies on Facebook.

Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by alexandre_m on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @06:58PM (#19507091)
Yet you probably can find a public FB page for some porn distributor publishing updates about their new movies and stars.

Point is, even if you find the content questionable, it's still allowed to be shared, as long as it's within the laws obviously.

Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by anigbrowl on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @02:15PM (#19504106)
s/explicitly/implicitly ?

I mean this was the approach they were taking to White supremacist material until now, which was why people were giving them a hard time.