[ April 19, 2024 ]
Mark Zuckerberg hits bottom and keeps digging. The arbitrary silencing of voices with whom he disagrees in the 21st century public square is terrifying.
And if Zuckerberg means to remove content that may lead to violence, will Facebook ban the hundreds of Quran quotes and hadiths that call for violence and murder of the unbelievers?
“Kill them wherever you find them and drive them out from where they drove you out. Persecution is worse than slaughter.” 2:191
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“When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks.” 47:4
“Fight against those who do not obey Allah and do not believe in Allah or the Last Day and do not forbid what has been forbidden by Allah and His messenger even if they are of the People of the Book until they pay the Jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.” 9:29
“When the sacred months have passed, then kill the Mushrikin wherever you find them. Capture them. Besiege them. Lie in wait for them in each and every ambush but if they repent, and perform the prayers, and give zacat then leave their way free.” 9:5
“They ask you about fighting during the sacred months. Tell them, fighting therein is a great sin but a greater sin is to prevent mankind from following the way of Allah, to disbelieve in him.” 2:217
“When your Lord revealed to the angels, ‘Truly I am with you. So, keep firm those who have believed. I will strike terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved. So, strike them at the necks and cut off their fingers.’” 8:12
“Oh you who believe, fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you and let them find harshness in you.” 9:123
Facebook Says It Will Remove Content That May Lead To Violence, Right After Zuckerberg Clarifies Take On Holocaust Deniers
Eric Lieberman, Daily Caller, July 19, 2018
Facebook clarified its censorship rules Wednesday, saying it will remove certain content that could lead to violence.
Specifically, Facebook says that false information in some instances should be removed because it could spark a dangerous response, as has been seen in Myanmar and India in recent months.
“We have identified that there is a type of misinformation that is shared in certain countries that can incite underlying tensions and lead to physical harm offline,” Tessa Lyons, a Facebook product manager, told The New York Times. “We have a broader responsibility to not just reduce that type of content but remove it.”
The “new policy” was created because of “feedback” from community groups in areas where fake news has led to coordinated violence, Lyons told The Wall Street Journal.
The protocol changes, or more aptly extension, come only hours after an interview with CEO Mark Zuckerberg was published in which he said that determining intent is a key component of eliminating certain posts. Zuckerberg’s contentious example is Holocaust deniers.
“Let’s take this whole closer to home … I’m Jewish, and there’s a set of people who deny that the Holocaust happened,” Zuckerberg told Kara Swisher of Recode, bravely delving into a highly controversial, albeit important topic. “I find that deeply offensive. But at the end of the day, I don’t believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong.”
In expressing such a sentiment, Zuckerberg seems to be walking back his once-professed assertiveness in taking down content considered by many to be distasteful, or deplorable.
“I don’t think that they’re intentionally getting it wrong,” he said, with Swisher adding that “they might be.”
“It’s hard to impugn intent and to understand the intent,” Zuckerberg said.
In that same discussion, Zuckerberg said while he is reluctant to go down that path of aggressive content removal, he doesn’t want to make it as prominent on the platform.
“So you move them down? Versus, in Myanmar, where you remove it?” Swisher asked, to which Zuckerberg answered with a simple “yes.”
Facebook was accused by some, like investigators for the United Nations, of fueling insurgent attacks against a large Muslim population in the Southeast Asian nation because it offers its social media capabilities and features to anyone and doesn’t always step in when it’s arguably appropriate.
The changes apply to Facebook’s primary platform and its subsidiary Instagram, but not WhatsApp, the protected messaging service, according to The New York Times. In India, texts with false information sent through WhatsApp, which is highly popular in the country, incited mob violence. Rumors about child abductors and organ harvesters, for example, led to the spontaneous beating of a young man. Others reportedly died from being falsely accused of such heinous activities.
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13 Comments
5 years ago
Its pro-jihadi thought police Again.
After facebook, twitter , even Google, youtube joins lslamofascist gang to support illegals and jihadis
suppress conservative free speech http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs
saudi/qatar/OIC own part of twitter, Fox Network, fund CNN, MSNBC , buy out politicians , bureaucrats in education dept to push islam in schools/ colleges. Easiest way to brainwash and takeover country and shutdown free speech !
5 years ago
Hillaryous! What an offal Jew nerd.
He does not know by doing that will BRING and ENCOURAGE violence. A stupid snowflake of a man and what happens when you let women and children run your country.
They will be the first people SUBJECT to their DOOMAIN.when they inadvertently bring the SHTF on everyone.
5 years ago
Facebook is much more pro-Islam than it is pro-Jewish, I am afraid. 🙁
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
Leftist Jews actually think that islam and hence muslims, doesn’t hate them which seems to negate any claims to intelligence that they may have.
5 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
I’ve never met a single Muslim who claimed to love Jews though, to be honest.
5 years ago
Those in politics and the media, including social media, who see fit to abrogate the First Amendment guarantees of others need to be reminded that those constitutional liberties are the very same ones that allow political discourse and a free media to even exist in the first place.
5 years ago
What a load of lying posturing crap as if it were true every islamist site would be removed as would thee leftist ones that call for blood.
5 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
You’re right! It is a bunch of BS! It’s conservatives that they’ll be targeting. They’re already doing it on FB, YouTube, Google and Twitter. The Left can say whatever vile, hateful thing they want. Horrible pictures and remarks about the President and they don’t bat an eye!
5 years ago
To incite violence is FB’s intent.
5 years ago
Zuckerberg believes he has God like power so he must be God and judge all things. What a sick little puke
5 years ago
Well then they better start with the Left because from everything I read and see it’s them, always them, that are the violent ones! But watch. It’ll be conservatives that they target. Heck they already do!
5 years ago
“It’s hard to impugn intent and to understand the intent,” Zuckerberg said.” But, he’s going to go ahead and employ the thought police over at FB anyway. You know, because they’re so concerned that the wrong people may be harmed.
5 years ago
So,……comments from mosloms are out then???
