Facebook Says it Will Now Block White-Nationalist, White-Separatist Posts (washingtonpost.com)

Facebook will begin banning posts, photos and other content that reference white nationalism and white separatism, revising its rules in response to criticism that a loophole had allowed racism to thrive on its platform. From a report: Previously, Facebook only had prohibited users from sharing messages that glorified white supremacy -- a rhetorical discrepancy, in the eyes of civil rights advocates, who argued that white nationalism, supremacy and separatism are indistinguishable and that the policy undermined the tech giant's stepped-up efforts to combat hate speech online. Facebook now agrees with that analysis, [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source] according to people who've been briefed on the decision. The new policy also applies to Instagram. The rise and spread of white nationalism on Facebook were thrown into sharp relief in the wake of the deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, when self-avowed white nationalists used the social networking site as an organizing tool.

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Louis Farrakhan smiles

[ScentCone]

Louis Farrakhan smiles, because his personal flavor of race-baiting social media use will continue undisturbed. Likewise with anti-Semitic posts from US congressional representatives, and the usual anti-the-other-guy screeds from untold numbers of tribal grievance groups. But as long as this one type of post is suppressed, we're good. Jussie Smullet and his supporters can continue to spew race-bating nonsense about a fictional event with no consequence, FB will guarantee that.

Re: Whew, that's a relief!

[Anonymous Coward]

Twitter bans people like crazy over speech
Only free speach sites i know of are
Gab
Minds
8chan
Voat

Re:Who will be the judge?

[AmiMoJo]

Have you ever stopped to consider why they feel this way? What has driven the (ridiculously tiny) portion of the population to these extreme ideas?

Yes I have.

The foundation of it is the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory, which posits that "globalists" (code for Jews) are deliberately encouraging non-whites to immigrate and to breed with white women in order to make white people a minority in currently white majority countries.

That's why they were chanting "Jews will not replace us" at Charlottesville. They don't mean Jews themselves are going to replace them, they mean that Jews are encouraging immigration, interracial couples and multi-culturalism as a way to replace them with non-whites.

There is also some pseudo-scientific crap about other races being inferior, that sort of thing.