facebook russia rules hate speech madness

[allmixedup123]

Surely this is completely insane. its now ok to call for violence against individuals??? Every russian is responsible for the acts of their government?

www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-facebook-instagram-temporarily-allow-calls-violence-against-russians-2022-03-10/

"Meta Platforms (FB.O) will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy."

"calls for violence against Russians are allowed when the post is clearly talking about the invasion of Ukraine"

Only for users in Ukraine I think - which in the context of an invasion is fairly reasonable.

@PinkDaffodil2

Only for users in Ukraine I think - which in the context of an invasion is fairly reasonable.

rules apply to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine,

I think it’s terribly worded..

BBC reports it as allowing calls for violence against Putin and Russian soldiers, but not Russian civilians.

Meta says it has temporarily made allowances for some violent speech, like "death to the Russian invaders," that would usually break its rules

However, it says it won't permit calls for violence against Russian civilians

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60702619

I heard a little about this on the radio.. and it made out that the only hate speech that was allowed was against Putin.

"We are issuing a spirit-of-the-policy allowance to allow T1 violent speech that would otherwise be removed under the Hate Speech policy when: (a) targeting Russian soldiers, EXCEPT prisoners of war, or (b) targeting Russians where it's clear that the context is the Russian invasion of Ukraine (e.g., content mentions the invasion, self-defense, etc.)," it said in the email.

From the link you posted in the OP:

“As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules like violent speech such as 'death to the Russian invaders.' We still won't allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians," a Meta spokesperson said in a statement.”