Comment on Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel

• FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  While that is true, silencing journalists sets a very bad precedent

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  • downpunxx@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I'd want Der Sturmer and the KKK weekly to be deplatformed too, it is not journalism, it's racist propaganda, Al Jazeera is a Qatari owned mouthpiece for Islamic Jihadis

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    • CatWhoMustNotBeNamed@geddit.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Let the removeds bring their ideas into the light, so we know who they are and what they think.

      Suppression is just a bad idea, and your naivete is terrifying.

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    • jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The problem with deplatforming people is eventually your group is going to be the out group, and it’s going to get deplatformed. Either we have freedom of expression for everybody or for nobody.

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      • Gsus4@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s perfectly fine to deplatform selectively anyone who is trying to threaten, intimidate, harass others. You don’t automatically get freedom of speech if you don’t follow society’s rules of coexistence between groups.

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    • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If we deplatform whole communities, they will meet in the dark and we have no way to see who is a shady mf

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      • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So should reddit have left subreddit a like r/The_Donald up?

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      • Gsus4@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It was ok when neonazis had no platform to organise in and were marginalized so they didn’t have a way to consolidate into a platform that makes them feel emboldened enough to do anything because they were so fragmented. It was a good way to keep them under control without harsher measures.

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• hark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If that’s such a problem, why’d they wait until this particular piece to deplatform and even then only the presenter’s profile?

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