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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by ratling on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:49PM (#19505210)
You don't solve nazi ideology with reasoned debate. You don't solve it with deplatforming either but I doubt facebook is going to start throwing bricks so I'll take it.
Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by Fins on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @04:19PM (#19505575)
And of course as long as you agree with FB's determination of who is a Nazi and who isn't, it's all fine and peachy?
Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by ratling on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @04:27PM (#19505668)
If they overreach then we circle back, basic iterative process. I see nothing in their statement to indicate that they're going to overreach.
Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by Fins on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @07:13PM (#19507215)
"Move fast and break things" doesn't quite work even in the SV bubble. Letting somebody as demonstrably immoral as Zuck do it in real life does not look like a good idea.

Better not let him iterate the overreach in the first place.

Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by ratling on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:33PM (#19508983)
Not if 'not iterating' means letting literal Nazis have a soapbox in the tech equivalent of the town square.
Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by Fins on Thursday March 28, 2019 @12:04AM (#19509142)
Even assuming that this premise were true, FB, Google, or any other tech company deciding who is a "literal Nazi" is a terrible idea.

And of all the ways FB is making the world worse, "letting Nazis have a soapbox" is least of their problems.

Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by DoofusOfDeath on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @04:05PM (#19505409)
> You don't solve nazi ideology with reasoned debate.

How did you reach that conclusion?

Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by ratling on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @04:06PM (#19505425)
1940-1945
Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by willpiers on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @06:28PM (#19506812)
Total non sequitur, low effort post. The mods are really showing their bias in this thread.

People respond with their best arguments when they are confronted with bad ideas.

People respond with censorship attempts and violence when they are scared that their own positions are weak.

Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by stevenwoo on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @06:21PM (#19506746)
There was reasoned debate from ballpark 1932-1938, when the Nazis have roughly 40% of the vote to go into a coalition government then somehow levered that into total control of the German state but that's more evidence for your argument.
Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by ratling on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:32PM (#19508982)
Yes, exactly my point.

History repeats itself and people on the left want to pretend you solve this problem with the debate club.

Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by rangerpolitic on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @06:58PM (#19507086)
Are you advocating for violence against "nazis?"