O/T:- Facebook bans free speech

[EwarWooWar]

I'd give your crystal ball a polish if I were you, because you are hopeless with your assumptions. The only time I ever read The Guardian is when it is linked on here. I get most of my news from mainstream TV - BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and 5 news programmes. I would never visit the EDL website, just as I would never visit the SWP website because I don't like extremism from whatever side.

Again you are talking complete bollox. I don't "automatically see Right Wing as bad but Left Wing as good", I automatically see bad things as bad and good things as good, whether they are left, right or centre. The funny thing is that you claim to look at all sides of the argument in a fair and rational way, but conclude that an American right-wing activist group are the ones to believe!.

Sorry, If I have you wrong on this, but you immediately discount what they have to say because they are "right wing activists". If they told you to take a coat because it looks like rain, would you dismiss their advice. There are literally hundreds of articles out there about how most social media has a left wing bias. Project Veritas are just the latest and they included interviews with employees. Facebook founder and CEO Zuckerberg even had to go before the US congress about it.

How about this from CNN - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk2Dp4tYo8M

If you want to broaden your horizons a bit I would suggest you look up a group call the Intellectual Dark Web, they are a loose group of people with a spectrum of views, but they are all broadly against the authoritarian viewpoint. I know most are from the US, but I did spend most of the past 10 years living there, so still a bit focused on what happens there.

https://intellectualdarkweb.site/van...tual-dark-web/

I tend to pay a lot of attention to Maajid Mawaz as he is from the UK

[applepie]

To go back to the original topic, I’ve yet to see any evidence for it. What I know is happening is that at least 150 advertisers (including well known ones such as Starbucks) are pressuring Facebook to tighten up their policies and actions on hate speech.

[drillerpie]

May i say that was an excellent post, with some very interesting points, more power to your elbow sir!

Thanks! Marxist has become a bit of a catch-all term which is bandied about inaccurately, so I thought it helpful to point out that these people are actual Marxists.

[Observerpie]

Who decides what is and isn't acceptable? There's no informed debate about this, just people shouting things down because it doesn't fit within their point of view. It helps to have some experience of life to be able to make logical, rather than ideological, judgements and although I see nothing wrong with being young and idealistic, we need a healthy dose of realism too.

[drillerpie]

Sorry, If I have you wrong on this, but you immediately discount what they have to say because they are "right wing activists". If they told you to take a coat because it looks like rain, would you dismiss their advice. There are literally hundreds of articles out there about how most social media has a left wing bias. Project Veritas are just the latest and they included interviews with employees. Facebook founder and CEO Zuckerberg even had to go before the US congress about it.

How about this from CNN - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk2Dp4tYo8M

If you want to broaden your horizons a bit I would suggest you look up a group call the Intellectual Dark Web, they are a loose group of people with a spectrum of views, but they are all broadly against the authoritarian viewpoint. I know most are from the US, but I did spend most of the past 10 years living there, so still a bit focused on what happens there.

https://intellectualdarkweb.site/van...tual-dark-web/

I tend to pay a lot of attention to Maajid Mawaz as he is from the UK

Completely agree about the IDW.

Is Majid Mawaz the ex jihadi who ended up in an Egyptian jail for terrorism offences? Then reformed and became vocal on the topic of Islamism? If that's the guy I'm thinking of I heard him on Sam Harris and Joe Rogan and his life story is absolutely fascinating (didn't he also successfully take the Southern Poverty Law Centre to court for putting him on a list of Islamophobes? )

[EwarWooWar]

Completely agree about the IDW.

Is Majid Mawaz the ex jihadi who ended up in an Egyptian jail for terrorism offences? Then reformed and became vocal on the topic of Islamism? If that's the guy I'm thinking of I heard him on Sam Harris and Joe Rogan and his life story is absolutely fascinating (didn't he also successfully take the Southern Poverty Law Centre to court for putting him on a list of Islamophobes? )

Yes thats the guy, he has also been sucessfully suing people who called him an ex terrorist too. I would also add Gad Saad to the list, that guy is a genius.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Saad