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Facebook is normally desperate to embrace its openness toward all opinions, vile or otherwise.
It has consistently tolerated many Holocaust denial pages, for example. (Breast-feeding pictures, not so much.)
So it is slightly surprising that the company was said to have bowed to public concern and removed a page featuring Aboriginal memes that insulted the indigent people of Australia.
According to the Herald Sun, Facebook took down the page, which also depicted Aboriginals as drunks and welfare cheats.
And yet, when I contacted Facebook, I was told by a spokesman: "While obviously distasteful and not any views that Facebook would support, the content does not violate our terms."
This is the very same argument that the company uses with respect to Holocaust denial pages, but not breast-feeding pages.
A sample of the comments on the "Abo Memes" page.
(Credit: Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
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