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by DINKDINK 3280 days ago
Facebook says that only governments may use violence to achieve political aims:

"The rule against posts that support violent resistance against a foreign occupier was developed because “we didn’t want to be in a position of deciding who is a freedom fighter,” Willner said. Facebook has since dropped the provision and revised its definition of terrorism to include nongovernmental organizations that carry out premeditated violence “to achieve a political, religious or ideological aim,” according to a person familiar with the rules."

aka they would have banned American Revolutionaries in 1700's