Facebook has banned far-right groups including the British National Party (BNP) and the English Defence League (EDL) from having any presence on the social
network. The banned groups, which also includes Knights Templar International, Britain First and the National Front as well as key members of their leadership, have been removed from both Facebook or Instagram. Facebook said it uses an extensive
process to determine which people or groups it designates as dangerous, using signals such as whether they have used hate speech, and called for or directly carried out acts of violence against others based on factors such as race, ethnicity or national
origin.
Offsite comment: How to fight the new fascism 19th April 2019. See article from spiked-online.com by Andrew Doyle
This week we have seen David Lammy doubling down on his ludicrous comparison of the European Research Group with the Nazi party, and Chris Key in the Independent calling for UKIP and the newly formed Brexit Party to be banned from
television debates. It is clear that neither Key nor Lammy have a secure understanding of what far right actually means and, quite apart from the distasteful nature of such political opportunism, their strategy only serves to generate the kind of
resentment upon which the far right depends. Offsite comment: Facebook is calling for Centralized Censorship. That Should Scare You 19th April 2019. See
article from wired.com by Emma Llansó
If we're going to have coherent discussions about the future of our information environment, we--the public, policymakers, the media, website operators--need to understand the technical realities and policy dynamics that shaped the response to the
Christchurch massacre. But some of these responses have also included ideas that point in a disturbing direction: toward increasingly centralized and opaque censorship of the global interne
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