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by someotherperson 2576 days ago
Happened in Australia just weeks ago.

Various pages belonging to the main Libertarian party ("Liberal Democratic Party") started getting shutdown[0] about a month before elections.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/davidlimbrickldp/posts/209817440381...

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Possibly because LibDem supporters tend to post obscenely racist/xenophobic/hateful things that often get flagged/reported.
No, they don’t. And that doesn’t justify shutting down the pages of three(!) state(!) parties with sitting parliament members weeks before elections.

If Facebook has issues with commenters, then those commenters should be punished.

Racism is becoming the catch-it-all excuse that you can throw at pretty much anything to justify why you should take it down.