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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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