FACEBOOK A DATE WITH DEATH, MR PUTIN
1. Don’t get the name of a giant tortoise wrong – you’ll be banned!
2. Hate speech – be nice to everybody!
3.Don’t be too active – busy means the cyber ‘bizzies’ will visit!
4. Don’t hide behing a false name – you’ll be shamed!
5. Don’t tell lies – unlike social media!
Should a cyber ‘toy’ – a mass communicator of bad driving, bad jokes and insults – really be allowed to support calls for the death of a world leader, no matter how despotic and hated?
A form of legalised ‘anarchy’ amongst the spiders of the world’s biggest social media site is allowing members to campaign for Vlad-the-Mad Putin to be murdered.
Posts calling for his death will now survive the ‘editor’ spiders after a temporary change to its hate speech policy.
Instagram and Facebook users in a number of countries will also be allowed to call for violence against Russians in the context of the Ukrainian invasion, according to internal emails which was sent to Reuters.
Meta, which runs the social media sites, told content moderators that posts calling for the death of the Russian President and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko will be allowed.
The temporary policy change applied to Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania.
Posts that call for Mr Putin’s or Mr Lukashenko’s death will only be removed if they target other individuals or if there are indications the threat is credible.
Several social media companies previously announced new content restrictions after the Ukraine invasion including blocking Russia state media RT and Sputnik in Europe.
Should a cyber ‘toy’ – a mass communicator of bad driving, bad jokes and insults – really be allowed to support calls for the death of a world leader, no matter how despotic and hated?
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