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Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by aixi on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:33AM (#24755463)
That's just a slippery slope fallacy. The holocaust is a non-recent and well documented event, and its denial is clearly a masquerade for hateful speech. Holocaust denial is outlawed in Germany for good reasons.

Not to mention Facebook is a private company and it should be free to censor whatever it wants to censor; book burning is a real issue only when its state sponsored.

Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by Rebelgecko on Monday October 12, 2020 @12:22PM (#24756073)
>book burning is a real issue only when its state sponsored.

Strong disagree from me. These corporations are becoming an increasingly large part of how people communicate. Imagine if phone companies started deplatforming people the way social media sites do- it would become incredibly hard (perhaps impossible) to live a normal life in 21st century america.

Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by shadowgovt on Monday October 12, 2020 @12:39PM (#24756290)
Different media. Phones are a direct-messaging platform; Facebook is a highway full of roadside billboards.
Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by Rebelgecko on Monday October 12, 2020 @02:32PM (#24757765)
FB has direct messaging and will refuse to send a PM to a friend if it contains a "bad" link