Tasneem Khalil
Facebook has disabled Tasneem Khalil’s account. He’s been reporting on the people behind the massacre in Dhaka and on the new IS video saying IS is going to keep on attacking Bangladesh. Now Facebook have disabled his account. That’s stupid and wrong and bad.
Tasneem Khalil @tasneem 6 hours ago
Nice! Looks like @facebook has disabled my account for covering news about the rise of ISIS in #Bangladesh. Disappointing.I understand #Bangladesh government is keen on downplaying/hiding ISIS presence in country. Why is @facebook aiding censorship?
Ridiculous indeed: the way @Facebook censors independent journalism.
Siddhartha Dhar @SiddharthaDha11
@tasneem @facebook that is ridiculous. I can’t believe Facebook did that. What’s wrong with covering a story?
9:48 AM – 6 Jul 2016
He’s a journalist, Facebook. Look him up. Use your brain.
I suspect (hope?) Facebook aren’t using a brain at all for this stuff. They are probably using some sort of blunt instrument software to do this job. Funny how often journalists and activists get blocked while actual terrorists get to do their shit though.
Isn’t it though?
(“Use your brain” was meant to cover “make your algorithm so that it doesn’t shut down journalists ffs.”)
I’m not sure who discovered the technique, but a number of regressives have figured out how to game the Facebook complaint system. I’ve seen it used against friends who outspokenly combat anti-vaccination misinformation, one of whom has received multiple 30-day suspensions. Here’s a brief summary of what’s been going on. http://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/2016/06/heather-ann-murray-anti-semitic-harassment.html
You seem to be suggesting Facebook put more actual human beings in the moderating loop. That would cost more actual money. You can’t be serious, right? That’s just crazy talk.
For some time now Facebook has been shutting down the accounts of people criticizing Islam because they were considered *Far Right*
The people with those shuttered accounts may have been conservative, but to portray them as far right was but a flimsy pretense to engage in censorship. No one, from what I can tell, came to their defense, and so now the net has widened to the point where even criticism of murderous acts committed in Islam’s name are now being censored.
When you couple this with bogus anti-hate sites like ‘Tell Mama’, a site that classifies many statements about Islam, statements both truthful and accurate, as ‘hate speech’, then you just know how screwed we are.
Truth is now HATE when it comes to this subject.
Censor it all.
John – it’s not that simple. It’s possible to say true things in such a way that they do encourage (or incite) hatred and ultimately violence. You have a tendency to do it yourself, in fact, which is why your comments now require approval.
You have a tendency to do it yourself, in fact, which is why your comments now require approval.
Ah but that’s exactly the reasoning behind Facebook’s drive to shut down Tasneem Khalil’s facebook page.
Incitement to hate.
I once called an Islamist calling for my death a ‘greaseball’. Apparently that was an expression of ‘hate’ on my part.
That my oh-so offensive comments would require approval before being posted is more a reflection on you than on me.
Ban me if you must.
How do you know? Tasneem hasn’t said what Facebook’s reason was, that I’ve seen, so how do you know?
And yes, calling someone a greaseball is of course racist. I don’t understand what you think you add to criticism of Islamism and death threats by dragging in racist language. There are some lily white Islamists, so what? That doesn’t make them any more admirable.
And nope, sorry, my refusal to allow you to post bluntly racist comments is not a reflection on me.
I’ll ban you if I decide to and not if I don’t.
Look, in Canada ‘greaseball’ refers to someone who’s slippery, dishonest and deceitful. *Up here* it has no racial connotations whatsoever. I’ve been using it to describe creepy characters for years on the web, and your website was the first to claim the term was racist. Had I used the term ‘slimeball’ ( a perfectly acceptable synonym for ‘greaseball’), I’d probably have been accused of being *anti-green*…or something…
And? I’m not sure what your point is. If it’s that you didn’t intend it as racist then fine. But if it’s that you should be able to say it here and everywhere, then I strongly disagree.
I think I understand where you’re coming from. You want to be blunt and truthful about the issues, and I get that, because I do too. But I think you overgeneralize sometimes, and I think that’s something everyone should be careful about.
Oh and – the reason I put you in mod is not to punish you but because I can’t read the comments 24 hours a day and I don’t want ugly comments sitting here for hours as if I were ok with them.
One more thing…before hinting that I’m being eccentric by saying “greaseball” is racist (or more precisely xenophobic, but the two overlap), try Googling it. I just did. No doubt Google is very US-oriented but then it’s not as if Canada is wholly isolated from the US, so…
Funny, I’m from a Commonwealth country where greaseball is used, rarely, in the manner John describes and I have ALWAYS taken it to be derived from a racial slur against people of Mediterranean descent. I haven’t googled it, but I’m sure someone will tell me if my assumption is wrong.
Trying to claim greaseball is non racist in origin is like saying that calling someone a cunt is nothing to do with misogyny.
Exactly like that.