{"id":4787,"date":"2019-03-28T07:42:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T06:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=4787"},"modified":"2019-03-28T07:49:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T06:49:45","slug":"making-war-on-offending-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=4787","title":{"rendered":"Making war on offending terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-47728471\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Facebook has said it will block &#8222;praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism&#8220; on Facebook and Instagram from next week.<\/p>\n<p>The social media giant also pledged to improve its ability to identify and block material from terrorist groups.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook users searching for offending terms will be directed to a charity which combats far-right extremism.\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The company said it had deemed white nationalism an acceptable form of expression on a par with &#8222;things like American pride and Basque separatism, which are an important part of people&#8217;s identity&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0in a blog post on Wednesday\u00a0it said that after three months of consultation with &#8222;members of civil society and academics&#8220; it found that white nationalism could not be &#8222;meaningfully separated&#8220; from white supremacy and organised hate groups.\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Valve, which runs the Steam gaming network,\u00a0<a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/valve-removes-over-100-steam-tributes-to-suspected-new-1833328548\">said it had removed more than 100 &#8222;tributes&#8220; by users<\/a>\u00a0that sought to memorialise the alleged shooter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I read the <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/valve-removes-over-100-steam-tributes-to-suspected-new-1833328548\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Valve entry<\/a>. What is made illegal here is a man&#8217;s name, and his image. Again: prohibited is a name. A man&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Facebook has said it will block &#8222;praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism&#8220; on Facebook and Instagram from next week. The social media giant also pledged to improve its ability to identify and block material from terrorist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=4787\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}