“’It is a strong signal in terms of regulation,’ said Sonia Cisse, a counsel at law firm Linklaters, adding that it was a world first. ‘Hate speech is no longer considered part of freedom of speech, it’s now on the same level as terrorism.’” This heralds the end of France as a free society and, […]
Do you utter “hate speech”?
If you do, you’ll probably be like Mark Zuckerberg, who couldn’t quite define what it is, but stands by the principle that he hates “hate speech” nonetheless. At his hearing, it was agreed that incitement to violence is hate speech, but even here I would disagree. Incitement to violence is incitement to violence. Antifa uses […]
Zuckerberg claims Facebook has no bias against conservatives
Zuckerberg must be lying, unless he is unaware of what is going on in his own company. Scalise, like Cruz, did not ask Zuckerberg, but could have, about Facebook’s choking off of sites that oppose jihad terror. He could have asked him why Facebook’s Vice President Joel Kaplan traveled to Pakistan in July 2017 to […]
Video: Mark Zuckerberg rattled as Ted Cruz grills him over Facebook’s censorship of conservatives
Cruz did not ask Zuckerberg, but could have, about Facebook’s choking off of sites that oppose jihad terror. He could have asked him why Facebook’s Vice President Joel Kaplan traveled to Pakistan in July 2017 to assure the Pakistani government that it would remove “anti-Islam” material. That endeavor had already started before Kaplan’s trip. In […]
Zuckerberg said “je suis Charlie,” but now Facebook blocks Muhammad images
“It’s an illustration, perhaps, of how extremely complicated and nuanced issues of online speech really are,” says the Washington Post. But it isn’t really an illustration of anything except the cowardice and inconsistency of Mark Zuckerberg. “Two weeks after Zuckerberg said ‘je suis Charlie,’ Facebook begins censoring images of prophet Muhammad,” by Caitlin Dewey, Washington […]