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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by tathougies on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:45PM (#19812682)
> There are specific cases of them calling on their fans to harass private citizens. Anyone with some semblance of awareness of US law knows free speech is not without limits. No one is entitled to online speech, believe it or not.

So will CNN, MSNBC, and the Washington Post be banned from facebook for setting hundreds of doxxers and activists on a high school kid who smiled in a red hat?

Man, the lack of introspection in this thread is astounding.

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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by sdenton4 on Thursday May 02, 2019 @08:53PM (#19814509)
So it's ok for Alex Jones to encourage doxxing constantly forever because some bad reporting happened in the main stream media once? Got it.
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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by tenpies on Thursday May 02, 2019 @10:51PM (#19815100)
> once?

How fast we forget: https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-user-tr...

Or take your pick of mainstream media openly inciting violence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw9kyYEwg2

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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by tathougies on Thursday May 02, 2019 @10:46PM (#19815075)
No not at all. I think they should be banned along with CNN and MSNBC. I don't see why when I suggested banning those two news outlets you immediately assumed it was nuts and the argument was to urban Alex Jones.
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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by SantalBlush on Friday May 03, 2019 @12:39AM (#19815611)
They should be suspended with a warning, yes. If they continue to do it, they should be banned.
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