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Re:Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death ca... by torstenvl on Friday March 11, 2022 @10:20AM (#30640942)
That is not true. Please try to be careful not to unintentionally spread propaganda.

> allowing posts such as "death to the Russian invaders," although it would not allow calls for violence against Russian civilians.

There's a big difference between self defense against an aggressive war and calls for genocide. Targeting invaders from a country's armed forces is not the same as targeting that country's civilians or largest ethnicity.

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Re:Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death ca... by jaywalk on Friday March 11, 2022 @10:24AM (#30641003)
You may use Meta's platforms to call for the death of this specific list of approved people/groups only. Any other calls for death are not allowed, although the approved list may change at Meta's sole discretion at any time.
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Re:Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death ca... by kbelder on Friday March 11, 2022 @04:00PM (#30645950)
To be fair, I would have the same policy on my own site.
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Re:Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death ca... by Chris2048 on Friday March 11, 2022 @10:44AM (#30641249)
> specific list of approved people/groups

Should we tolerate the intolerant, or in this case, refuse to use violence against the violent?

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Re:Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death ca... by jaywalk on Friday March 11, 2022 @11:26AM (#30641905)
Absolutely not. Ukrainians have every right to defend their country. I just find the fact that a corporation has essentially put out a list of entities that they want to see (or are at least ok with seeing) killed pretty dystopian. It's basically the "two minutes of hate" from 1984.
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Re:Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death ca... by yrgulation on Friday March 11, 2022 @10:22AM (#30640983)
To be honest, the first paragraph does say: “the social network changed its hate speech rules to allow users to call for violence against Russians”. It may very well be that its reuters spreading propaganda.
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Re:Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death ca... by ceejayoz on Friday March 11, 2022 @10:24AM (#30641006)
Unless it's been ninja-edited, you've left off the rest of that sentence, which says "in the context of the war with Ukraine". The article also goes on to say "although it would not allow calls for violence against Russian civilians"
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