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The choice of Facebook and Instagram: “Allowed posts wishing Putin death”

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The choice of Facebook and Instagram: “Allowed posts wishing Putin death”

Counterorder on hate speech, that is, sui hate messages on Facebook and Instagram. Those directed against Russia, its president, Vladimir Putin, and his armed forces will be allowed. In short: in some countries, posts wishing the former KGB official death will remain online and will not risk being deleted for violating the rules on violent or dangerous language and content. This temporary removal will only be valid in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine. Therefore also in some European countries, those most directly in contact with the Ukrainian territory.

Same speech, a what Reuters learned from an internal email addressed to the thousands of moderators engaged every day to clean up the newsfeeds of hundreds of millions of people, even for the Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, an ally of Moscow and somehow complicit in the invasion: users of those countries will be able to call for his death, provided that their posts and comments do not contain specific indications of risk and modalities or do not concern other subjects. It is very clear the reference to the historical legal principle of the so-called Clear and Present danger, that is, of the presence of an evident and imminent threat, as the only limit to the suppression of freedom of speech. In short, if it is about outbursts, however violent, those phrases or those contents that are usually prohibited and that will remain prohibited in many markets, will be allowed.

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Moscow, that at home it has blocked all Meta products for days, as well as other platformsimprisoning its citizens in a dystopian propaganda bubble, obviously reacted, asking the United States to put an end to what have been called “the extremist activities” of the colossus of Menlo Park: “We ask the authorities to take measures to bring those responsible before justice – we read in a tweet bordering on the surreal that appeared on the profile of the Russian embassy in the United States – Facebook and Instagram users have not given the owners of these platforms the right to determine the criteria of truth and to pit nations against each other ” .

The Meta choice on the contrary it seems quite clear: “As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we have temporarily allowed forms of expression of political opinion that would normally violate our rules, such as violent speeches calling for death to the Russian invaders. But we will continue to disallow credible calls for violence against Russian civiliansA spokesperson for the group explained in a statement.

Going into detail, this kind of expressions will be allowed and therefore kept online only when they concern Russian soldiers, except prisoners of war, or are addressed to Russian citizens but only in the context of the invasion of Ukraine, for example if the content mentions invasion, self-defense, and so on. In addition, of course, to the two presidents. Conversely, the limits that prevented praising and talking about the infamous are always temporarily removed Azov Battaliona neo-Nazi-inspired formation framed in the Ukrainian National Guard, but always on condition that it is spoken of “in the strict context of the defense of Ukraine or its role as part of the Ukrainian National Guard”.

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The group, consulted by France Presse, did not confirm that the waiver will only apply to some specific countries, as instead seems to emerge from the internal communications released by Reuters. In short, it could also apply to other markets.

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