Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck...
by dominotw on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:34PM
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related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum
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Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck...
by DSingularity on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:41PM
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Not really. Take the current position of Facebook. Assume Facebook was around in 1930. Now answer, would Facebook block nazi propaganda?
Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck...
by lalos on Friday November 22, 2019 @01:30PM
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Judging from another American tech company that faced the same challenge, one could argue they would not block. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck...
by zacharytelschow on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:51PM
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Propoganda? No. Outright ads on the final solution? Probably yes, but also bear in mind the Nazis weren't exactly broadcasting their plans to the outside world. (At least I don't think they were - am I wrong on this point?)
Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck...
by supercanuck on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:59PM
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>Probably yes,
real vote of confidence there.
Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck...
by leitasat on Friday November 22, 2019 @01:20PM
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you are right, it was a secret.
Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck...
by sjg007 on Friday November 22, 2019 @01:25PM
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I encourage everyone to visit the Holocaust Museum. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/deceiving-...
Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck...
by dominotw on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:45PM
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its discussed in limits on that wiki page
Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck...
by supercanuck on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:36PM
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>An invocation of Hitler or Nazism is not a reductio ad Hitlerum when it illuminates the argument instead of causing distraction from it