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Facebook and Instagram Finally Ban White Nationalism and White Separatism
GizModo ^ | 3/27/19 | Matt Novak

Posted on 03/27/2019 12:37:50 PM PDT by OddLane

Facebook and Instagram will finally ban white nationalism and white separatism on their networks in a move that will be implemented next week. The decision, first reported by Motherboard but announced by Facebook on its website, comes after the social media giant spent years splitting hairs about the difference between white nationalism and white supremacy. And there’s still the question of how well Facebook can police white nationalist content among its 2 billion users.

“Our policies have long prohibited hateful treatment of people based on characteristics such as race, ethnicity or religion – and that has always included white supremacy,” Facebook said in a statement posted to its website.

But the social media company added a bizarre rationalization of its previous decisions by invoking “American pride” and Basque separatism, an ethnic separatist movement in Spain for the minority Basques that dates back to the 1950s...

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1 posted on 03/27/2019 12:37:50 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: OddLane

But spewing anti Israel rhetoric is all good


2 posted on 03/27/2019 12:40:25 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: OddLane

How about banning all kinds of racism, including racism against whites?


3 posted on 03/27/2019 12:40:28 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: OddLane

More New World Order BS.


4 posted on 03/27/2019 12:40:33 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: OddLane

The end of Free Speech. Get rid of your subsrciptions...en masse.


5 posted on 03/27/2019 12:40:51 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: OddLane

What about black nationalism and black separatism?


6 posted on 03/27/2019 12:41:25 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: OddLane

Easy. Any white person who doesn’t bow and apologize for being white is a self-admitted white supremacist. /s


7 posted on 03/27/2019 12:41:42 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: OddLane

Facebook abandons all pretense and bans all non-woke white people.


8 posted on 03/27/2019 12:41:50 PM PDT by A strike (Import third world become third world)
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To: OddLane

But leftist supremacy, black separatism, black nationalism, Islamic supremacy and all the other -isms against white people are ok on facebook. Why does anyone use facebook again?

JoMa


9 posted on 03/27/2019 12:41:53 PM PDT by joma89
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To: OddLane

Blacks endorsing white genocide is still ok, right?


10 posted on 03/27/2019 12:42:04 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: OddLane

And yet the Nation of Islam still has a home on Facebook. Screwy Louie is as racist as they come.


11 posted on 03/27/2019 12:42:08 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: OddLane

Nation of Islam ban?
Black Panther ban?


12 posted on 03/27/2019 12:42:52 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: OddLane

The Deep State DEMONRATS shutting down their domestic enemies’ ABILITY TO ORGANIZE is a prelude to civil war.


13 posted on 03/27/2019 12:44:36 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: OddLane

I’m starting to think they want White people to lose their collective “shit”.
When White people finally snap, continents burn.


14 posted on 03/27/2019 12:44:59 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: OddLane

According to Instagram what is white nationalism specifically?

What about black nationalism?

And brown nationalism?


15 posted on 03/27/2019 12:45:13 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: OddLane

I quit using Facebook years ago. Never looked back.
Facebook was a total waste of time.


16 posted on 03/27/2019 12:48:58 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (eWFight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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To: All

I’m supremely white, and I love it!!


17 posted on 03/27/2019 12:49:35 PM PDT by JonPreston (If you think we're treated badly now wait untill we're disarmed.)
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To: Jim Robinson

I think you applied an “/s” there by mistake.

You were dead on target with the comments.


18 posted on 03/27/2019 12:50:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: laplata

FB has been working with the Chinese government on their censored and monitored version of FB, the one that keeps a ranking of your social compliance ranking. Just common platform design. Nice huh?


19 posted on 03/27/2019 12:51:05 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: JonPreston
Joe Biden doesn’t like you, and the way you eat causes too many molecules of CO2.
20 posted on 03/27/2019 12:52:01 PM PDT by EEGator
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