Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content
by cannedslime on Thursday March 28, 2019 @05:57AM
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Are you sure about that? Try searching for "الموت للغرب" on facebook (Death to the west)
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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content
by int_19h on Thursday March 28, 2019 @06:42PM
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This is "terror content" though, not the ideology behind it. I tried looking around, and there are plenty of pages preaching the ideology. It sounds like they're okay so long as they don't directly call for violence, showcase violence (execution videos etc), or try to recruit for either of those, even though the end goals are inherently violent. Most white supremacist content is similar in that regard.
I'd note that "Death to the West" has a very mixed set of meanings.
Often is isn't meant as a threat, but instead is a political statement calling for the end to the hegemony of the West. However, sometimes it is meant as hate speech (often when associated with calls for the destruction of Israel).