Meta to broaden hate speech policy to remove more posts targeting 'Zionists'

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• Mrkawfee@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Zionists: It’s anti Semitic to say Zionists control social media.

  Also Zionists: you’re not allowed to criticize Zionists on social media.

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• chrash0@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  most Zionists i’ve met are white Protestants, and most Jews i’ve met aren’t Zionists…

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most Zionist Jews I’ve met have become interested in their identity only because of Israel. Thoroughly assimilated before that. Not even one or two family Yiddish phrases for fitting situations (like az okh n vey or something).

    Usually carriers of their home’s typical understanding of nationalism, only adapted for Israel. Cause at home it’s kinda frowned upon usually, while for Israel it’s something different, “allowed”, and they get to feel themselves better, of some different blood.

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• bazus1@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Headline next week: Meta has said it will expand its hate speech policy to cover more uses of the word “Nazi” when applied to white males on its platform.

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  • Manos@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably fitting. Babbling leftists have thrown that word around so much its lost all meaning as well.

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    • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t want to be called a nazi? Then don’t act and speak like one. Easy.

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    • MajinBlayze@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Let’s not pretend that there isn’t an active effort to undermine the meaning of Nazi. I’ve seen many more claims of Nazi being overused than I have of anyone actually mentioning Nazis, in good faith or otherwise

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• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Conflating Jews and Zionists is obligatory for Mark “Donated $125.000 to Zaka” Zuckerberg.

  Also denial of the existence of israel is now forbidden in Germany and on Meta platforms. Free speech btw.

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  • cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also denial of the existence of israel is now forbidden in Germany and on Meta platforms. Free speech btw.

    Maybe it’s just me, but calling for the eradication of a country is bad (controversial take, I know)

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    • Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Zionists are not following Judaism. If you ask jewish people living in occupied Palestine they’ll tell you they are in exile and are not allowed to have their country until the arrival of the Messiah, that they are simply living in that land that belongs to whoever ot belonged to.

      Zionists om the other hand are imperialist colonisers who took the land from its owners. So asking for the land to return to its rightful owners is legitimate, and this translates to the end of the existance of the state created on wrongfully seized land.

      This should not be conflated with eradicating the people. The people could live there with the local Muslims, Christians and Jews as they did before. Although I know we don’t live in a fairy tale. If the occupying state is dismantled, how can one live peacefully with the people who tortured you, your family and society for decades and made your life hell…

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    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes everyone should recognize Palestine.

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Calling for the eradication of a religious ethnostate that engages in genocide and colonialism is surprisingly a good thing.

      Or would you think it was bad the world eradicated Nazi Germany?

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  • daddyjones@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    shown that the term tends to be used to refer to Jews and Israelis, with dehumanising comparisons, calls to harm, or denials of existence,"

    This is not confusing the two - this is specifically targeting anti-semitism

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    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No this is banning criticism of israel along with it. Using Judaism as a shield for Zionazis.

      If they wanted to ban antisemitism they would not have included the word Zionist.

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    • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That is exactly it. Antisemites figured out a while back that they could say whatever they want about Jews as long as they swap out the word Zionist. This has been a feature of white supremacy for ages. It used to be “people with big noses” or “people who wear hats” or even “bankers,” or “globalists.” The latter two are more similar to the use of “Zionist” because they represent actual groups that people criticize. That gives more cover to the actual antisemites.

      This is actually a good thing, because it removes that cover from bigots who want to hijack the movement and hide behind it.

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  • MajinBlayze@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Denial of Israel as in saying it doesn’t exist, or that it shouldn’t?

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    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• StaySquared@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So… hate speech toward a political ideology? Are they going to do the same for the other political ideologies?

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  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is specifically not that. It’s about people misusing the term “Zionists” to refer to Jews, which is also a thing that happens.

    The complete statement is here if you want to see it. The posted article does a pretty poor job explaining it.

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    • StaySquared@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Okay… so people call white cis males, “fascists”

      So we need to make it fair then and make all speech against political ideologies as, “hate speech”.

      Any one person supporting the elimination of our right to free speech should be turned into its basic form of carbon without hesitation.

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• EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lol have you ever tried to report abuse on Facebook or Instagram?

  They won’t do shit about obvious racist abuse or hate speech. Let them define what they want, they will do what they always do - nothing.

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  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Their algorithm appears to work on bots only which auto crawl content for words.

    When it comes to media they do remove some material there are a few articles of people working in a meta moderation centers with traumas from what they have seen posted.

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Meanwhile, scamming on instagram is totally OK, because they pay for ad space!

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• Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, a lot of anti-zionism was clearly just thinly vieled anti-semitism. This makes sense.

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  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for conflating the two, person who defends israel at every corner.

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  • Mrkawfee@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most Zionists in the US are Christians.

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    • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Most people in the US are Christians

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• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As a person who doesn’t know and has to Google what a Zioni…

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If only all these companies were so eager to censor Azeri posts calling Armenia “Western Azerbaijan”, doing genocide denial or right away calls to murder.

  But “dehumanizing” group murdering people in droves right now is bad, because it may or may not intersect with an ethno-cultural group.

  It won’t be too long till Hezbollah are my heroes. I may even become more tolerant to Marxism at some point ; one Marxist sci-fi book, which seemed either naive or hidden critique of USSR itself, now seems to be a pretty good description of our world.

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  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    commies reeeee

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