Jew Haters Welcome At Facebook, As Long As They Aren’t Lactating

Re:Jew Haters Welcome At Facebook, As Long As They Aren’t La... by ramchip on Monday May 11, 2009 @12:24AM (#602969)

There's a difference between posting gratuitous comments as in the picture (which sounds more like trolling than true racism to me, although I could be mistaken), and holocaust denial. I don't think banning discussion on anything is "common sense and decency". There are anti-hacking laws in most countries, should discussion on hacking be a bannable offense?

Why in the world must they draw a line in the sand and then stand on the same side as Holocaust deniers is beyond me. That's basically saying that if you don't ban holocaust denier, you're an holocaust denier, which is a huge fallacy.

I'm surprised how worked up even technical people can get when people post false things on the Internet. Let the trolls be, there's not much to be done about it.

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Re:Jew Haters Welcome At Facebook, As Long As They Aren’t La... by xenophanes on Monday May 11, 2009 @01:20AM (#603022)

Facebook is not taking a "ban nothing" approach. They have no moral highground to stand on. They are taking a "ban what they feel like" approach. And they feel like banning mild things, but not troll level quality of thinking holocaust denial hate speech. They are giving the holocaust deniers better treatment than far more legitimate groups. That is siding with the holocaust deniers somewhat, and it's bad. They should either ban nothing, or add the really awful stuff to their ban list, their choice.

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