Removing Holocaust Denial Content

Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by creata on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:36AM (#24755506)

You call it "digital book burning", and you call Facebook a "primary communication channel", because your argument necessitates that you exaggerate so. If you see Facebook for what it is --- not an arm of the government, not the only voice anyone has, but just one of many communication platforms --- it's clear that this is no violation of free speech.

Facebook isn't determining "what is true"; it's just determining what it is okay with hosting.

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Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by yeneek on Monday October 12, 2020 @12:11PM (#24755949)

It's censorship for sure.

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Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by serial_dev on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:56AM (#24755746)

> If you see Facebook for what it is --- not an arm of the government

I find it easy to see Facebook as one of the arms of the government. It's not the only arm of the government, and it's not the only thing Facebook does, but one could consider Facebook (and other social networks and tech giants) as an arm of the government.

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Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by shadowgovt on Monday October 12, 2020 @12:36PM (#24756237)

Believe me, the world would look a lot different if Facebook were actually an arm of the government.

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Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by bjourne on Monday October 12, 2020 @12:01PM (#24755812)

Much in the same way that the Chinese firewall is just determining what it is okay with flowing through its fiber pipes.

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Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by disown on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:00PM (#24756562)

> it's clear that this is no violation of free speech.

It is a violation of free speech. Just a legal one. For example, parts of europe, russia, china, saudi arabia, etc there are legal violations of free speech. Doesn't make it right though.

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