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Re:Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Re... by gorwell on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @03:51PM (#28844247)
Long dead Hitler and Goebbels are included too, but why stop there? Where's Joseph Stalin and Vlad the Impaler.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21083819/pages/facebo...

Re:Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Re... by barbacoa on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @04:49PM (#28844892)
And don't get me started on the Romans.

After the Romans captured Carthage they murdered 450,000 of its inhabitants.

This makes Caesar's Place in Las Vegas very culturally problematic.

Re:Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Re... by labster on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @06:07PM (#28845640)
How does it make Caesar’s Palace problematic? The Punic Wars were long over by the time Julius Caesar was fighting Gauls. He literally overthrew the republic which caused that mass murder in Carthage a century earlier.

Are you trying to be sarcastic? Satire is dead because no one can tell any more. The internet is so vast that at least a few people have your absurd opinion, possibly including you.

Re:Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Re... by andyxor on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @05:19PM (#28845215)
And how about the indigenous Inca & Maya people, nobody wants to see their human sacrifice culture celebrated on Facebook (Mel Gibson exposed the ugly truth in Apocalypto)

And the Spanish Inquisition, Bluebeard, Ivan The Terrible, Robespierre, Lenin, Beelzebub and Donald J. Trump?

The ban list is way too short.

Re:Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Re... by dragonwriter on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @05:42PM (#28845440)
> And how about the indigenous Inca people, nobody wants to see their human sacrifice culture celebrated on Facebook (Mel Gibson exposed the ugly truth in Apocalypto)

Apocalypto focussed on the Maya, who aren't even from the same continent as the Inca.

Re:Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Re... by andyxor on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @06:12PM (#28845686)
You’re right I always mix them up, corrected
Re:Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Re... by woodruffw on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @05:40PM (#28845410)
With the exception of Lenin, I don't think contemporary political positions hold a great deal of water for any of these people. The list probably isn't an objective scale of atrocity, it's probably proportional to the volume of content that Facebook actually sees.
Re:Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Re... by adventured on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @04:18PM (#28844563)
Exactly. Where's Che Guevara? Another of the monsters of the 20th century and still quite popular as an icon.
Re:Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Re... by woodruffw on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @05:36PM (#28845382)
I'm guessing the list is based on political salience, not just how "bad" a person is.

There probably aren't that many Vlad the Impaler apologists in the world, given that he's a functionally irrelevant person to be an apologist for. That's perhaps less the case for Stalin, but even Marxist-Leninists (seem) to make fewer excuses for Stalin-the-human than neo-Nazis do for Hitler-the-human.

Re:Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Re... by legostormtroopr on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @06:33PM (#28845929)
> There probably aren't that many Vlad the Impaler apologists in the world

Literally the entire genre of Vampire literature disagrees.

Re:Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Re... by woodruffw on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @06:39PM (#28845994)
> Literally the entire genre of Vampire literature disagrees.

I wasn't under the impression that there was any particular political message behind contemporary vampire fiction. Dracula itself is full of political messages, but probably not the ones you're thinking of[1].

[1]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3828327

Re:Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Re... by petre on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @04:44PM (#28844833)
Vlad the Impaler might have been overdoing things, but he did stuff that pretty much standard practice during the Middle Ages. Stalin on the other hand should totally be on that list.
Re:Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Re... by lenkite on Thursday October 14, 2021 @06:11AM (#28862353)
Where is Mao ?
Re:Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Re... by robbedpeter on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @06:01PM (#28845594)
Why not Marx and Mao? Could never understand why some murder memes are OK but others are not.
Re:Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Re... by woodruffw on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @06:31PM (#28845905)
Karl Marx, the 19th century philosopher and economist, is not particularly well known for murdering people.
Re:Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Re... by Angostura on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @06:08PM (#28845655)
Stalin, perhaps. Not sure Marx particularly advocated murder.