FACEBOOK – NO PLACE FOR GYPSY/ROMA/TRAVELLER HATE PAGES

Catherine Fitzpatrick
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/ #44 FB Hate Pages

2011-03-03 23:49

Facebook needs to become the liberal mainstream platform where people go for civil, accountable socializing and organizing. That means adhering to the TOS which prohibits incitement of hatred to others on grounds of race, political affiliation, sexual orientation, class status, etc.

I'm for the First Amendment, and I'm for services in a free market creating First Amendment-level service agreements that permit any speech that does not incite imminent action. So hate pages that are a form of extreme discussion not inciting hatred might go on such another platform with a higher threshold for First Amendment compliance.

I don't think FB, as the largest commercially viable platform should be required to enforce the First Amendment regarding hate speech.

For that, there's always Youtube comments : )