Meta has said it will expand its hate speech policy to cover more uses of the word “Zionist” when applied to Jews or Israelis on its platform.
We will now remove messages targeting ‘Zionists’ in several areas where our investigation has shown that the term tends to be used to refer to Jews and Israelis, with dehumanising comparisons, calls to harm, or denials of existence," the company said in a press release on Tuesday.
In December, Human Rights Watch said that Meta was guilty of “systemic censorship of Palestine content” during Israel’s war on Gaza.
So… hate speech toward a political ideology? Are they going to do the same for the other political ideologies?
It is specifically not that. It’s about people misusing the term “Zionists” to refer to Jews, which is also a thing that happens.
The complete statement is here if you want to see it. The posted article does a pretty poor job explaining it.
Okay… so people call white cis males, “fascists”
So we need to make it fair then and make all speech against political ideologies as, “hate speech”.
Any one person supporting the elimination of our right to free speech should be turned into its basic form of carbon without hesitation.
Sorry, but I believe that terror groups (such as the KKK, Proud Boys, GDL, ISIS/Daesh, NJP, Patriot Front) should not be allowed unlimited free reign to spread their message and recruit followers but that’s just me. I understand the argument for unlimited free speech on every platform, but I happen to disagree.
That’s a slippery slope. That would then include political ideologies like Marxism, Zionism, Communism, Socialism, and other social-political groups you forgot to include like BLM and Anti-Fa.