{"id":401661,"date":"2019-03-28T12:41:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T11:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-facebook-bans-all-praise-support-and-representation-of-white-nationalism-and-separatism\/"},"modified":"2019-03-28T12:41:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T11:41:52","slug":"prison-planet-com-facebook-bans-all-praise-support-and-representation-of-white-nationalism-and-separatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-facebook-bans-all-praise-support-and-representation-of-white-nationalism-and-separatism\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Facebook Bans All \u2018Praise, Support and Representation of White Nationalism and Separatism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Menahan<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=59978\">Information Liberation<\/a><br \/>March 28, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook on Wednesday announced they\u2019ll be banning all \u201cpraise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism\u201d on Facebook and Instagram but will still allow other race-based nationalist and separatist movements.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Facebook had <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/yw4pbj\/facebook-white-supremacy-white-nationalism-hate-speech-policy\">said previously<\/a> they were against banning white nationalism and white separatism because they felt that under the same rules they\u2019d also have to ban Zionism and black separatism.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s statement <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2019\/03\/standing-against-hate\/\">reads<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today we\u2019re announcing a ban on praise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism on Facebook and Instagram, which we\u2019ll start enforcing next week. It\u2019s clear that these concepts are deeply linked to organized hate groups and have no place on our services.<\/p>\n<p>Our policies have long prohibited hateful treatment of people based on characteristics such as race, ethnicity or religion \u2014 and that has always included white supremacy. We didn\u2019t originally apply the same rationale to expressions of white nationalism and white separatism because we were thinking about broader concepts of nationalism and separatism \u2014 things like American pride and Basque separatism, which are an important part of people\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n<p>But over the past three months our conversations with members of civil society and academics who are experts in race relations around the world have confirmed that white nationalism and white separatism cannot be meaningfully separated from white supremacy and organized hate groups. Our own review of hate figures and organizations \u2013 as defined by our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communitystandards\/dangerous_individuals_organizations\">Dangerous Individuals &amp; Organizations policy<\/a> \u2013 further revealed the overlap between white nationalism and white separatism and white supremacy. Going forward, while people will still be able to demonstrate pride in their ethnic heritage, we will not tolerate praise or support for white&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/facebook-bans-all-praise-support-and-representation-of-white-nationalism-and-separatism.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris MenahanInformation LiberationMarch 28, 2019 Facebook on Wednesday announced they\u2019ll be banning all \u201cpraise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism\u201d on Facebook and Instagram but will still allow other race-based nationalist and separatist movements. Facebook had said previously they were against banning white nationalism and white separatism because they felt that under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}