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liorsbg ◴[] No.43661921[source]
I just re-read the article, and there’s no evidence of wrong doing. There’s a bunch of circumstantial stuff that people are choosing to feed into their narrative.

Facebook has some rules and community guidelines, the Israeli government recognized some posts that violate those and asked for them to be taken down, and Facebook complied in accordance to their own rules.

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1. nabla9 ◴[] No.43661961[source]
Nothing illeagal. Just dirty.
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2. edanm ◴[] No.43662029[source]
The article doesn't even prove that anything is dirty. It's just carefully insinuating that these takedown requests are wrong, without actually showing any proof of this.
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3. whamlastxmas ◴[] No.43663194[source]
Manipulating the free flow of speech is inherently wrong. They are demonstrably censoring pro Palestine content without any regard at all to pro Israel content, or even pro Israel content that incites or calls for violence
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4. edanm ◴[] No.43663573{3}[source]
> Manipulating the free flow of speech is inherently wrong.

That is an absurd statement.

Almost every platform has mechanisms for taking down content, for good reason. Is asking to take down copyrighted content "inherently wrong"? Is asking to take down illegal content like child pornography "inherently wrong"?

What about someone publishing the name and address of a pro-Palestinian activist and saying "let's get together and kill him"? Would taking down that be wrong?

Without knowing the actual content that was asked to be removed, we can't judge whether it made sense or not.

> They are demonstrably censoring pro Palestine content without any regard at all to pro Israel content, or even pro Israel content that incites or calls for violence

Is this demonstrated in the article? I might have missed it but I didn't see any comparison to how pro-Israel content is handled.