Facebook, breasts – no; Holocaust denial groups – yes.
ADOTAS — Who decides what can be allowed on Facebook?
Last year, Facebook sparked a massive online debate after removing photos that exposed too much of a woman breast feeding. The social network claimed the photos violated terms of service, which doesn’t allow the posting of obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit material. Of course, there is another part of those terms that say you can’t post content that is hateful or threatening.
Now, I’m as close to an absolutist when it comes to freedom of speech. But if you going to have rules, use them fairly, and it appears that only in the last 24 hours did Facebook decide to do that.
This has been brewing for a while. Brian Cuban published an open letter to Facebook asking why it allows groups that promote hatred of religious and ethnics groups and the hate speech those groups perpetrate, which he believes Holocaust Denial groups fall into. The Holocaust deniers seek to deny or minimize the Holocaust, in which Nazis killed about six million European Jews during World War II.
At first it seemed that Facebook was trying to defend the groups, saying that it was a place where even controversial discussions should take place. But Mashable says the groups’ pages now appear to be down.
Social networks give an important forum for discussions. But if you have policies, don’t be surprised when users demand you live by them.
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Reader Comments.
When you write about the Holocaust please remember that the total tally is 12 million. Yes the Nazis killed 6 million Jews, but they also murder 6 million others including Roma (gypsies – they and the Jews are specifically identified in the Wannsee Conference transcripts as the main target of the Nazis), gays, labor union leaders, mentally handicapped, the disabled, religious leaders who spoke out, Slavs along with many others.
Letting Holocaust Denying groups be on Facebook is very dangerous because the young generation does not know much about WWII, and under these groups’ influence they might not realize the significance of the crime done by Nazi.
It is a historical fact that Nazi did kill and tortured millions of Jews and other nations. The world has never forget it.
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