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Re:Facebook's Zuckerberg accused of setting dangerous preced... by hirundo on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @06:03PM (#23396915)
"I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941 a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, December 8, 1941

If FDR posted that, should Twitter and Facebook filter it out? It is a clear call for violence. Or does it matter why violence is being called for?

It's hard to construct a curation rule so clear that it can't, easily, turn on political calculus.

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Re:Facebook's Zuckerberg accused of setting dangerous preced... by danaris on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:13PM (#23397660)
If you don't think it's easy to construct rules that differentiate between clearly official pronouncements regarding major diplomatic shifts, and bloviating support for obviously racist state-sanctioned violence against individual citizens, then I would humbly submit this to be a failure of imagination.
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