<story><title>Removing Holocaust Denial Content</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2020/10/removing-holocaust-denial-content/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjc50</author><text>&amp;gt; You can simply ignore people you don&amp;#x27;t like, or you deem &amp;quot;intolerant&amp;quot;, etc.&lt;p&gt;Simply ignore the internet-radicalised mass shooters! Ignore the people raising funds for murderers. Ignore the people gathering molotovs to protest, and the others encouraging each other to run them over with cars. I&amp;#x27;m sure none of that stuff will ever happen to you.</text></item><item><author>amadeuspagel</author><text>Almost any kind of censorship could be justified with the argument that some voices are &amp;quot;drained out&amp;quot; by others, so to protect the former, the latter most be censored, which is not actually &amp;quot;an encroachment on free speech but a necessary impediment to keep the spirit of free speech and free society intact&amp;quot;. WTF does this mean? The internet is not a room where some people have to be silent so that you can hear the others. You can simply ignore people you don&amp;#x27;t like, or you deem &amp;quot;intolerant&amp;quot;, etc.</text></item><item><author>ignoramous</author><text>Admirable move. I think Facebook (and all its properties), Twitter, and other hyper-connected social networks must show a healthy level of intolerance towards groups and ideologies that are beyond reason and recall, especially when those said groups are overtly and unmistakably intolerant themselves.&lt;p&gt;This heavy-handedness isn&amp;#x27;t an encroachment on free speech but a necessary impediment to keep the spirit of free speech and free society intact, one where the tolerant voices aren&amp;#x27;t drained out by the relentlessness and irrationality of the intolerant.&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Paradox_of_tolerance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Paradox_of_tolerance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Similar discussions (re Cloudflare terminates 8chan): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20616055&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20616055&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20610395&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20610395&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raxxorrax</author><text>If you change yourself and the internet because of these mass shooters, what did you achieve?&lt;p&gt;People protest for different reasons and I don&amp;#x27;t like all of them.&lt;p&gt;Homicide is actually something very rare in humans apart from formal war. A tiny subset is perhaps radicalized by internet content, but I would guess there are actually underlying issues for everyone.&lt;p&gt;Your reaction seems to indicate panic, not rational thought.</text></comment>
<story><title>Removing Holocaust Denial Content</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2020/10/removing-holocaust-denial-content/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjc50</author><text>&amp;gt; You can simply ignore people you don&amp;#x27;t like, or you deem &amp;quot;intolerant&amp;quot;, etc.&lt;p&gt;Simply ignore the internet-radicalised mass shooters! Ignore the people raising funds for murderers. Ignore the people gathering molotovs to protest, and the others encouraging each other to run them over with cars. I&amp;#x27;m sure none of that stuff will ever happen to you.</text></item><item><author>amadeuspagel</author><text>Almost any kind of censorship could be justified with the argument that some voices are &amp;quot;drained out&amp;quot; by others, so to protect the former, the latter most be censored, which is not actually &amp;quot;an encroachment on free speech but a necessary impediment to keep the spirit of free speech and free society intact&amp;quot;. WTF does this mean? The internet is not a room where some people have to be silent so that you can hear the others. You can simply ignore people you don&amp;#x27;t like, or you deem &amp;quot;intolerant&amp;quot;, etc.</text></item><item><author>ignoramous</author><text>Admirable move. I think Facebook (and all its properties), Twitter, and other hyper-connected social networks must show a healthy level of intolerance towards groups and ideologies that are beyond reason and recall, especially when those said groups are overtly and unmistakably intolerant themselves.&lt;p&gt;This heavy-handedness isn&amp;#x27;t an encroachment on free speech but a necessary impediment to keep the spirit of free speech and free society intact, one where the tolerant voices aren&amp;#x27;t drained out by the relentlessness and irrationality of the intolerant.&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Paradox_of_tolerance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Paradox_of_tolerance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Similar discussions (re Cloudflare terminates 8chan): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20616055&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20616055&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20610395&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20610395&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>refurb</author><text>Those things you worry about are already illegal.  Direct threats of violence (through speech) are already illegal.  Funding raising for terrorism is already illegal, including fundraising through speech.</text></comment>