Report: Facebook Employees Wanted to Censor 'Hate Speech' from Trump, 'Threatened to Quit'

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Report: Facebook Employees Wanted to Censor ‘Hate Speech’ from Trump, ‘Threatened to Quit’
Facebook employees rallied the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg and even threatened to quit the company over some of Donald Trump’s postings, which they claimed violated the site’s policy on hate speech and community rules, a report from The Wall Street Journal has revealed.

 

The posts in question related to Donald Trump’s comments about a proposed ban on Muslim immigration to the U.S., which they said violated the site’s community standards, arguing the company had double standards in relation to Trump.
The argument went all the way up to Facebook’s senior management, with Mark Zuckerberg ruling that the company would not censor the content, prompting furious internal exchanges and leading to their community standards team threatening to quit.

Zuckerberg later told a Muslim man at a town hall meeting that he believed Trump’s comments did constitute hate speech, “but said the implications of removing them were too drastic,” according to people who attended the meeting.

Meanwhile, Monika Bickert, the company’s head of global policy management, told employees the company wouldn’t take down any of Trump’s postings because of its obligation to be impartial during election cycles.

 

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/10/21/report-facebook-employees-wanted-to-censor-hate-speech-from-trump-threatened-to-quit/

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There are sure a lot of liberals out there that don't have the slightest comprehension of the United States Constitution.   It's a shame that this country has allowed the protest party to take the reigns and become the laughing stock of the West. Quite an embarrassing time to be an American.  :/

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Oh, careful, that's a "Micro-Aggression". Wouldn't wanna get privvy-checked. :rofl: :laugh:

 

[EDIT] (And for the record, I'm not going to. I completely agree with you, in fact.)

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2 hours ago, Gary7 said:

What about The Hate Speech from Clinton?

It's acceptable, after all she is going to be the next president! /s And everything that Trump says is evil and must be micro analyzed.

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That's interesting, yet they can't seem to remove beheading videos and people getting shot in the head/murdered as it doesn't go against their policies?

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17 minutes ago, HoochieMamma said:

That's interesting, yet they can't seem to remove beheading videos and people getting shot in the head/murdered as it doesn't go against their policies?

Policy is all in the eye of the beholder. That way they can pretend that an item that they don't like is offensive, but as you pointed out people getting shot, etc. does not fall under the broad spectrum of 'offensive' but anything that a presidential candidate (specifically the evil Republican) says will be considered offensive, but as @Gary7 pointed out Clinton can say what ever she wants and offend whomever she wants and it is not consider offensive enough to censor/remove/etc.

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9 hours ago, Unobscured Vision said:

Oh, careful, that's a "Micro-Aggression". Wouldn't wanna get privvy-checked. :rofl: :laugh:

 

[EDIT] (And for the record, I'm not going to. I completely agree with you, in fact.)

I would love to tell you what I'd like to do to all these twits that scream "Micro aggression", but sadly, it's against the forum rules! :p

 

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6 hours ago, HoochieMamma said:

That's interesting, yet they can't seem to remove beheading videos and people getting shot in the head/murdered as it doesn't go against their policies?

The only thing against Facebook policies are a) things that get complained about to the police, and b) things that don't pull in lots of page views and ad revenue.

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9 hours ago, Astra.Xtreme said:

There are sure a lot of liberals out there that don't have the slightest comprehension of the United States Constitution.   It's a shame that this country has allowed the protest party to take the reigns and become the laughing stock of the West. Quite an embarrassing time to be an American.  :/

Well, you have the 60/70's boomers, anti-establishment jokesters running the gov't... and their kids, indoctrinated.
Too sad they don't realize they are the establishment they rebelled against.

 

Democrats put the US into Vietnam; Republicans got us out... for instance.

Nixon resigned over about 18 minutes of recorded tape, yet Hillary won't give up after how many thousands of emails it would take the average person days to read and many months to correlate.

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