Re:Facebook and Instagram to temporarily allow calls for vio...
by sofixa on Friday March 11, 2022 @02:54AM
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But the laws are different in different countries ( duh!). Antisemitism isn't illegal in the US, but is an actual crime in France just to give one example.
Re:Facebook and Instagram to temporarily allow calls for vio...
by cato_the_elder on Friday March 11, 2022 @10:32AM
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Right, that's a contentious area. The extent of jurisdiction of e.g. France over FB seems very nebulous to me.
And even then, I'm sure they have a court process to determine who's guilty of "hate speech" (or thoughtcrime or whatever), and FB is capable of challenging the cases or complying with the rulings for French residents. I assume blanket prior restraint is frowned upon in freer countries of the world.
There are efforts to pass Draconian laws to limit free expression online though [1].
[1]: e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/world/europe/france-inter...
That is certainly true. There are many examples of that. Israel provided weapons and advisers to Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. They even bombed an Iraqi nuclear reactor for them. [1] A more widely known example is the alliance between US and the Soviets during the WW2.
> What you've just discovered is that a unified policy across the entire world isn't actually the right policy.
I disagree with that. The ideal "public square" platforms should be neutral. The best policy (which I think will work in almost all cases for general platforms like FB) is to stick to supporting free expression as much as the law permits, don't manipulate people's feeds, and develop tools to let people filter out the content they don't want to see.
[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%27s_role_in_the_Iran–...