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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by tptacek on Thursday May 02, 2019 @05:58PM (#19813391)
Yes? Facebook should ban racism against Turkish people? I'm not sure I see how that's an interesting or difficult call to make.
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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by rayiner on Thursday May 02, 2019 @08:38PM (#19814421)
I don’t know if I agree with that. The Turkish ethnostate tried to wipe Armenians off the map. Who is Facebook to tell Armenians how they can express their response to that?
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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by tptacek on Thursday May 02, 2019 @09:04PM (#19814567)
They're Facebook. They run Facebook. That is the source from which they draw their authority to ban racism against the 80 million men, women, and children who inhabit Turkey. On Facebook, I mean.

I take your point and am not trying to be snarky. I just don't see the problem here. The legitimate historical grievances of Armenians are orthogonal to what Facebook should allow to happen on their platform.

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