Facebook Instagram Bans Group Self Advocacy in FreeSpeech Hypocrisy Move
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nexpbx/facebook-bans-white-nation... 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. 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, 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. "Facebook is now fighting the Belgian court's decision to stop tracking Belgian internet users and delete the data it's already gathered on them, or face fines of about $280,000 a day." Your group is next to be silenced.
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 06:23:56AM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nexpbx/facebook-bans-white-nation...
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. Previously, Facebook only had prohibited users from sharing messages that glorified white supremacy -- a rhetorical discrepancy, in the eyes of ((("civil rights" "advocates"))),
TFTFY... <Ministry alert/>
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, 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.
"Facebook is now fighting the Belgian court's decision to stop tracking Belgian internet users and delete the data it's already gathered on them, or face fines of about $280,000 a day."
Your group is next to be silenced.
https://torrentfreak.com/russia-orders-major-vpn-providers-to-block-banned-s... https://www.docdroid.net/p1YUjYR/torguard-roscomnadzor.pdf Russia banning everything... During the past few days, telecoms watch Roscomnadzor says it sent compliance notifications to 10 major VPN services with servers inside Russia -- NordVPN, ExpressVPN, TorGuard, IPVanish, VPN Unlimited, VyprVPN, Kaspersky Secure Connection, HideMyAss!, Hola VPN, and OpenVPN. The government agency is demanding that the affected services begin interfacing with the FGIS database, blocking the sites listed within. Several other local companies -- search giant Yandex, Sputnik, Mail.ru, and Rambler -- are already connected to the database and filtering as required. "In accordance with paragraph 5 of Article 15.8 of the Federal Law No. 149-FZ of 27.07.2006 'On Information, Information Technology and on Protection of Information' hereby we are informing you about the necessity to get connected to the Federal state informational system of the blocked information sources and networks [FGIS] within thirty working days from the receipt [of this notice]," the notice reads. A notice received by TorGuard reveals that the provider was indeed given just under a month to comply. The notice also details the consequences for not doing so, i.e being placed on the blacklist with the rest of the banned sites so it cannot operate in Russia. The demand from Roscomnadzor sent to TorGuard and the other companies also requires that they hand over information to the authorities, including details of their operators and places of business. The notice itself states that for foreign entities, Russian authorities require the full entity name, country of residence, tax number and/or trade register number, postal and email address details, plus other information.
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:21:02PM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
https://torrentfreak.com/russia-orders-major-vpn-providers-to-block-banned-s... https://www.docdroid.net/p1YUjYR/torguard-roscomnadzor.pdf
Russia banning everything...
During the past few days, telecoms watch Roscomnadzor says it sent compliance notifications to 10 major VPN services with servers inside Russia -- NordVPN, ExpressVPN, TorGuard, IPVanish, VPN Unlimited, VyprVPN, Kaspersky Secure Connection, HideMyAss!, Hola VPN, and OpenVPN. The government agency is demanding that the affected services begin interfacing with the FGIS database, blocking the sites listed within. Several other local companies -- search giant Yandex, Sputnik, Mail.ru, and Rambler -- are already connected to the database and filtering as required.
"Since when has censorship every gone wrong?" Fundamentally, depriving humans of their fundamental human rights, such as the right to communicate freely, which implies anonymously (for without anonymous communication, like whispering between neighbours or friends, then any despot can imprison, torture etc, thus making communication fundamentally non-free) eventually causes a backlash. Perhaps some enterprising Russkies will finally get some full p2p/n2n local node mesh networkie thing happening. Would be a great day since if some I2P Neighbour to Neighbour type thing takes off, we'll all be morally and spiritually better off for it, despite the natural consequences of empowering to some degree, illegal and "illegal" activity. Actual freedom means taking some of the actual "bad" of life with the good, otherwise freedom (in a particular domain) does not exist. The clamour for safety, for protection by any external authority such as government, inevitably ends up with that external authority being targetted by sociopaths and despots who end up exercising the "power to protect" or "responsibility to protect" (R2P), despotically and sociopathically. This is as natural and as certain as water flowing downhill. The fundamental human malaise today is the desire for protection and safety (and even comfort!) by external authorities - that is, by authorities external to ones self. Good luck, and create your world,
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