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

www.middleeasteye.net Meta to broaden hate speech policy to remove more posts targeting 'Zionists'

Company says it will crackdown on uses of 'Zionist' where it can be used to dehumanise Jews or Israelis

Meta has said it will expand its hate speech policy to cover more uses of the word "Zionist" when applied to Jews or Israelis on its platform.

We will now remove messages targeting 'Zionists' in several areas where our investigation has shown that the term tends to be used to refer to Jews and Israelis, with dehumanising comparisons, calls to harm, or denials of existence," the company said in a press release on Tuesday.

In December, Human Rights Watch said that Meta was guilty of “systemic censorship of Palestine content” during Israel's war on Gaza.

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

Also Zionists: from now on you're not allowed to criticize us on social media.
most Zionists i’ve met are white Protestants, and most Jews i’ve met aren’t Zionists…
- 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.
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.
- Probably fitting. Babbling leftists have thrown that word around so much its lost all meaning as well.
  
  Don't want to be called a nazi? Then don't act and speak like one. Easy.
  
  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 accusing someone of being a Nazi, in good faith or otherwise
If you’ve ever had Passover with a Zionist and they bring up politics, you then realize how terrible people they are. Psychos some of them.
- Passover is a weird thing. The "angel of death" slaughtered Egyptian children over night and for some reason needed marks to be placed over the doors of Jewish houses.
  
  I have my doubts about whether it was really a supernatural event
  
  You know, now that we're talking about it — I've always had my doubts that Noah collected two of every animal.
  
  Good news: it didn't happen at all!
  
  I have my doubts about whether it was really a supernatural event
  
  don't worry, it's just a fairy tale
  
  Well considering it never happened, I wouldn't worry too much about it.
  
  Given how eagerly the Israelis have been murdering children I seriously doubt they needed the angel of death to do the dirty work.
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.
- Denial of Israel as in saying it doesn't exist, or that it shouldn't?
- 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)
  
  Zionists are not following Judaism. If you ask some orthodox 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 it belonged to.
  
  Zionists on the other hand are imperialist colonizers who took the land from its owners. So asking for the land to be returned 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...
  
  Edit: adding link to interview
  
  Yes everyone should recognize Palestine.
  
  Calling for the eradication of a religious ethnostate that engages in genocide and colonialism is surprisingly a good thing.
  
  Or do you think it was bad the world eradicated Nazi Germany?
- 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
  
  No this is banning criticism of israel along with it. Using Judaism as a shield for Zionists.
  
  If they wanted to ban antisemitism they would not have included non-antisemitism in there.
  
  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.
So... hate speech toward a political ideology? Are they going to do the same for the other political ideologies?
- 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.
  
  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.
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.
- 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.
Meanwhile, scamming on instagram is totally OK, because they pay for ad space!
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.
- commies reeeee
As a person who doesn't know and has to Google what a Zioni....
Yeah, a lot of anti-zionism was clearly just thinly vieled anti-semitism. This makes sense.
- Thanks for conflating the two, person who defends israel in every post.
- Most Zionists in the US are Christians.
  
  Most people in the US are Christians

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