Facebook bans “Far-right extremist Louis Farrakhan"

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SoonerP226

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Only in one sense that I can see where Farrakhan can be called "far-right," and that is in the context of him within his religion of Islam. If I remember correctly, some media outlets have labeled such people as "far-right" because the "moderates" in Islam seem to be to the left of the terrorists.
From what I understand, Muslims tend to distinguish between themselves and the followers of Farrakhan's Nation of Islam in the same way that most Christians tend to distinguish between themselves and the Westboro morons. I once had a discussion with an Okie who actually said that he was black and a Muslim, but not a Black Muslim.
 

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and he can find a non-private forum for his nutter views, right?
I was simply stating he has a right to the first amendment just like all of us. He can choose to try and use whatever platform he likes. Said providers of platforms that are private business have a choice in whether to allow him to use their products to exercise said right.
 

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Facebook and all the other social media platforms, just like any other privately held company certainly have the option of controlling what is posted to their site. These bozos are not being deprived of their rights, they have plenty of other options available. Being delisted by Facebook is not the same as being censored by the Government.

Facebook is a great method of keeping up with friends scattered around the world. It is easy to set so that you do not see any of the news feeds or other postings that you don't want.
 

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you mean on facebook's own platform?

Yes ,I do . It is a public platform and they are deciding what is ok for me to see. Libraries are owned by the city, do you think it is ok for the city to decide what I can read? I don't, I am not knocking them for just the right leaning people they have banned but all of them.
I also do not think facebook should be held accountable for what some wacko puts on the public platform. And .gov going after Zuckerburg and trying to hold the company accountable for others views or fake news is ridiculous just like going after my guns because of some wacko is ridiculous.
>gov cannot legislate peoples thinking no matter how out there it is.
 

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