Douglas Murray
Facebook is now removing
speech that presumably almost everybody might decide is racist -- along with
speech that only someone at Facebook decides is "racist."
The sinister reality of a
society in which the expression of majority opinion is being turned into a
crime has already been seen across Europe. Just last week came reports of Dutch
citizens being visited by the police and warned about posting anti-mass-immigration
sentiments on social media.
In lieu of violence, speech is
one of the best ways for people to vent their feelings and frustrations. Remove
the right to speak about your frustrations and only violence is left.
The lid is being put on the
pressure cooker at precisely the moment that the heat is being turned up. A
true "initiative for civil courage" would explain to both Merkel and
Zuckerberg that their policy can have only one possible result.
It was only a few weeks ago
that Facebook was forced to back down when caught permitting anti-Israel
postings, but censoring equivalent anti-Palestinian postings.
Now one of the most sinister
stories of the past year was hardly even reported. In September, German
Chancellor Angela Merkel met Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook at a UN development
summit in New York. As they sat down, Chancellor Merkel's microphone, still on,
recorded Merkel asking Zuckerberg what could be done to stop anti-immigration
postings being written on Facebook. She asked if it was something he was working
on, and he assured her it was.
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