[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

> Ankhi Das, Facebook’s most senior executive in India, resigned in October 2020 after the Wall Street Journal reported she had intervened to prevent the platform removing accounts of members of the country’s Hindu nationalist ruling party, some of whom had called for violence against India’s Muslim minority.

I am not sure it is Facebook’s place to be policing members of the government of the largest democracy in the world.

[causi]

In what way is that "policing"?

[mantas]

In many parts of the world Facebook is synonymous to Internet. If you can't post on Facebook, you're pretty much toasted as a public figure.

[denton-scratch]

That brings to mind a certain orange fellow; but he doesn't seem to be toast (not yet).

[mantas]

US is quite diverse with Twitter. Which is let’s say… not so popular in many other markets.

[causi]

Then the largest democracy in the world is free to make their own social media.

[mantas]

I can imagine outcry if India banned Facebook :D but they banned TikTok, so maybe FB time will come too.

[oneoff786]

So… you’re in favor of providing a platform to call for violence against ethnic minorities?

[tsimionescu]

Isn't that the US free speech ideal? Didn't the ACLU use to defend the right of KKK members to hold rallies for exactly this ideal?

[angelbar]

Facebook is a private communication party.... they can be screaming their lungs out on the streets, if their goverments allow it.

[tsimionescu]

I didn't talk about the law, but the ideal.

[causi]

No, compelling a company to host speech it doesn't agree with is not the free speech ideal.

[yiamvino]

let me understand this right holding rallies / calling violence are synonyms to one another all comes under free speech ?

[tsimionescu]

What do you think the KKK would do at those rallies? Share cookies?

[Synaesthesia]

Even in the US with its exceptional.free speech laws, calls for violence or.murder are outlawed.

[howinteresting]

The ACLU was stupid for defending the KKK and I'm glad they've wised up.

[anon261114]

Facebook claims to follow a content moderation policy [1] for users on its platform. "Members of the government of the largest democracy in the world" is not a justification to bestow some kind of immunity from their policy. They should apply that policy to all users.

[1]: https://transparency.fb.com/en-gb/policies/community-standar...