Current Events > Facebook has started to ban accounts affilated with the Proud Boys.

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https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/30/18045410/facebook-bans-proud-boys-far-right-extremist-group-gavin-mcinnes

Facebook has started banning both individual accounts and pages, as well as associated groups, that are affiliated with the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys. The news was first reported today by Business Insider, which noted that members of the Proud Boys and adjacent online communities had begun complaining about the takedowns on Twitter.

The removals come in response to an act of violence in New York City earlier this month, in which members of the Proud Boys assaulted anti-fascist protestors outside a Republican club in Manhattan where Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes, also an original co-founder of Vice Media, was speaking. Facebook confirmed to The Verge that it was banning Proud Boys members and affiliated groups and pages from both its main social network and from Instagram. McInnes personal page is still active, but a number of high-profile groups, pages, and accounts have begun to disappear today.

Our team continues to study trends in organized hate and hate speech and works with partners to better understand hate organizations as they evolve, a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. We ban these organizations and individuals from our platforms and also remove all praise and support when we become aware of it. We will continue to review content, Pages, and people that violate our policies, take action against hate speech and hate organizations to help keep our community safe. The company is citing violations of its rules on hate speech and the organizing of groups that spread hate both online and offline as the reason for the bans and removals.

The Proud Boys was formed in 2016 as the modern-day equivalent of a street gang. As self-described western chauvinists, McInnes leveraged alt-right and other fringe political communities on the internet and grassroots organizing to form a coalition of predominantly white men. The group champions far-right causes like white nationalism and supports other various forms of regressive political movements.

The group is also known for its often violent behavior against protestors of President Donald Trump and other members of the right, and for McInnes public condoning of such activity. The Southern Poverty Law Center considers the Proud Boys a hate group. Following the attack in New York, McInnes told media organizations that he would be forcing participants in the assaults to come forward and surrender to law enforcement. A number of Proud Boys members have been arrested and charged over the brawl.

@Womp_Womp
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tight

Gab getting scrubbed from the internet
Infowars got rekt
Proud Boys getting the banhammer

Only a matter of time before that dumbass Donald redditt slips up. Good times.
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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
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Good
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God bless
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FrisbeeDude posted...

Gab getting scrubbed from the internet
Infowars got rekt
Proud Boys getting the banhammer

Only a matter of time before that dumbass Donald redditt slips up. Good times.

They'll never ban T_D, it generates too much traffic.
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Cool beans, when are they banning Antifa as well?
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TheMikh posted...

Cool beans, when are they banning Antifa as well?

That's not how fascism works.

TheMikh posted...

Cool beans, when are they banning Antifa as well?

Being a piece of shit is fine so long as you're a left wing piece of shit
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Inb4 CE's alt right defense force with slippery slope fallacies and utter inability to grasp the definition of "free speech"

Free speech does not entitle you to a platform of any kind, nor force people to listen to you without mocking. It merely prevents the government from going after you and allows you to speak without legal consequences. Businesses and other people can tell you to fuck off, they can pull your invitations and not allow you to speak at their function halls and message boards.
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You posted this 33 seconds before I did an it's entirely because copying on mobile sucks >_>
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bover_87 posted...

FrisbeeDude posted...

Gab getting scrubbed from the internet
Infowars got rekt
Proud Boys getting the banhammer

Only a matter of time before that dumbass Donald redditt slips up. Good times.

They'll never ban T_D, it generates too much traffic.

We just need Anderson Cooper to do an expos on it.
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Yet Antifa, recognized by the government as a terrorist organization, is allowed to remain.


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Annihilated posted...

TheMikh posted...

Cool beans, when are they banning Antifa as well?

That's not how fascism works.

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Bio1590 posted...

You posted this 33 seconds before I did an it's entirely because copying on mobile sucks >_>

I also copied this from mobile. But I did almost forget to submit without topic title.
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F*** YES F*** YES
I can smell the white male tears from a mile away ban those vile people from all websites they are racist scum. I will say it again F*** YES.

voldothegr8 posted...

Yet Antifa, recognized by the government as a terrorist organization, is allowed to remain.

Antifa sucks, but under a non racist, Proud Boys would get the same designation. Trump administration has fought against white nationalist groups being labeled as terrorists.
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Nice
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It begin, and it is good
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trumpeters lose again
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I dropped Facebook when they started banning all those nice Russian Trump supporters who just wanted to show me the real America.

So how is this good? How is censoring people who disagree with you a good thing? Proud boys are Gavin McInnes' thing; and he's married to a native american woman from canada. (First Nations as they call them up there) He has mixed race children. Proud boys have black members, hispanic members.

What exactly is their crime? This is obvious bias and in the end it'll just reveal the left as dishonest, power hungry, seditionist agitators.
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bUt ThEy ArE hErOeS fOr FiGhTiNg TeRrOrIsTs LiKe AnTiFa

Or at least that's what lots of warned, suspended, purgatoried and banned users here would be saying if they had accounts that they could say it on...
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Very_Unreliable posted...

So how is this good? How is censoring people who disagree with you a good thing? Proud boys are Gavin McInnes' thing; and he's married to a native american woman from canada. (First Nations as they call them up there) He has mixed race children. Proud boys have black members, hispanic members.

What exactly is their crime? This is obvious bias and in the end it'll just reveal the left as dishonest, power hungry, seditionist agitators.

There's nothing wrong with committing acts of sedition against imperialist oppressors like America

Facebook can censor any content on their platform. Don't like it, don't use Facebook.
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ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

Or at least that's what lots of warned, suspended, purgatoried and banned users here would be saying if they had accounts that they could say it on...

^Proving my point.
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Unimpressed posted...

Inb4 CE's alt right defense force with slippery slope fallacies and utter inability to grasp the definition of "free speech"

Like 85% of them are already in time out, so we have anywhere from a few days to half a year to get in before they can say anything >_>
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Very_Unreliable posted...

Proud boys are Gavin McInnes' thing; and he's married to a native american woman from canada. (First Nations as they call them up there) He has mixed race children.

This is not proof against racism
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asagi_mode_gone posted...

Very_Unreliable posted...

So how is this good? How is censoring people who disagree with you a good thing? Proud boys are Gavin McInnes' thing; and he's married to a native american woman from canada. (First Nations as they call them up there) He has mixed race children. Proud boys have black members, hispanic members.

What exactly is their crime? This is obvious bias and in the end it'll just reveal the left as dishonest, power hungry, seditionist agitators.

There's nothing wrong with committing acts of sedition against imperialist oppressors like America

LMAO; such an oppressive country that people will do ANYTHING to come to.
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Antifar posted...

Very_Unreliable posted...

Proud boys are Gavin McInnes' thing; and he's married to a native american woman from canada. (First Nations as they call them up there) He has mixed race children.

This is not proof against racism

African Americans use it as a defense a lot; and when that happens I often find myself in agreement with you, but you know what? You can't have it both ways. It's a defense.
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Very_Unreliable posted...

asagi_mode_gone posted...

Very_Unreliable posted...

So how is this good? How is censoring people who disagree with you a good thing? Proud boys are Gavin McInnes' thing; and he's married to a native american woman from canada. (First Nations as they call them up there) He has mixed race children. Proud boys have black members, hispanic members.

What exactly is their crime? This is obvious bias and in the end it'll just reveal the left as dishonest, power hungry, seditionist agitators.

There's nothing wrong with committing acts of sedition against imperialist oppressors like America

LMAO; such an oppressive country that people will do ANYTHING to come to.

Hey, just because their country of origin is dangerous doesn't mean we aren't crappy. Who destroyed their nation to begin with? Mirror.jpg

Very_Unreliable posted...

So how is this good? How is censoring people who disagree with you a good thing? Proud boys are Gavin McInnes' thing; and he's married to a native american woman from canada. (First Nations as they call them up there) He has mixed race children. Proud boys have black members, hispanic members.

What exactly is their crime? This is obvious bias and in the end it'll just reveal the left as dishonest, power hungry, seditionist agitators.

Extremely accurate ratio of username to viewpoint validity.
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TheMikh posted...

Cool beans, when are they banning Antifa as well?

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Don't have an issue with Proud Boys being banned. Just don't understand why Antifa doesn't receive the same treatment, given that Facebook's rationale was some members committed acts of violence.
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I would like to see all alt righters banned from the internet in general.

asagi_mode_gone posted...

Very_Unreliable posted...

asagi_mode_gone posted...

Very_Unreliable posted...

So how is this good? How is censoring people who disagree with you a good thing? Proud boys are Gavin McInnes' thing; and he's married to a native american woman from canada. (First Nations as they call them up there) He has mixed race children. Proud boys have black members, hispanic members.

What exactly is their crime? This is obvious bias and in the end it'll just reveal the left as dishonest, power hungry, seditionist agitators.

There's nothing wrong with committing acts of sedition against imperialist oppressors like America

LMAO; such an oppressive country that people will do ANYTHING to come to.

Hey, just because their country of origin is dangerous doesn't mean we aren't crappy. Who destroyed their nation to begin with? Mirror.jpg

The USA is the City upon a Hill, people consume our media, and in the earlier less centralized days of free-enterprise (POST Slavery) our industrial supremacy was unchallenged. Has the US committed sins; ABSOLUTELY, have they committed sins that no other nation or culture has? Not even a little.

Remember that it is the Anglosphere including the US' abolition of slavery that ended the practice WORLDWIDE mostly, and it WAS practiced worldwide, but only the US gets any blame.
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cmiller4642 posted...

I would like to see all alt righters banned from the internet in general.

Alt right means nothing. Left applies it to anyone they don't like. If a group rejects the label, you MUST accept that rejection. As far as I know, proud boys don't accept that label at all.
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Tmaster148 posted...

Facebook can censor any content on their platform. Don't like it, don't use Facebook.

The alt right, in its desperation to remain relevant, is literally advocating for social media sites to be forced to host their content
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If Antifa groups do anything worth being banned I'm sure they are. That's just it you actually have to do something. I know that's hard for the right to understand.
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Very_Unreliable posted...

Antifar posted...

Very_Unreliable posted...

Proud boys are Gavin McInnes' thing; and he's married to a native american woman from canada. (First Nations as they call them up there) He has mixed race children.

This is not proof against racism

African Americans use it as a defense a lot; and when that happens I often find myself in agreement with you, but you know what? You can't have it both ways. It's a defense.

You do realize you can like a specific minority and hate others?

Proof is the white guys obsessed with Asian women who even marry them but they still HATE African Americans and wear maga caps and stuff

Very_Unreliable posted...

If a group rejects the label, you MUST accept that rejection.

[Citation needed]
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creativerealms posted...

If Antifa groups do anything worth being banned I'm sure they are. That's just it you actually have to do something. I know that's hard for the right to understand.

Why are you "sure they are"? That's not an argument. I'll tell you, they aren't and I think that's painfully obvious that you're biased; they hit people with ****ing bike locks and break storefront windows and have extremely violent demonstrations regularly, they assault people ALL the time. Proud boys no where near as much and I think the argument can be made that it was a one time agitation against antifa (that as I said is EXTREMELY violent)

And antifa pages are hosted proudly on twitter, instagram, facebook, and are NEVER censored. Enough.
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The Admiral posted...

Don't have an issue with Proud Boys being banned. Just don't understand why Antifa doesn't receive the same treatment, given that Facebook's rationale was some members committed acts of violence.

But antifa!!!

Antifar posted...

Very_Unreliable posted...

If a group rejects the label, you MUST accept that rejection.

[Citation needed]

No. Citation not needed. If you libel me, I should have a means of defense. You can't just apply terms to people, poisoning the well as it's called. Stop doing it. It's the leftist's most deceitful disgusting strategy that is used for a lack of an argument.
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And by the by "[citation needed]" isn't just a all-purpose clever way of saying "you're wrong". It has a context; and you used it in the wrong one, exposing yourself as a person trying their absolute hardest to imitate an intelligent person.
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Very_Unreliable posted...

No. Citation not needed. If you libel me, I should have a means of defense.

It's not libel to call the nofap "western civilization" gang alt-right.
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Very_Unreliable posted...

ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

Or at least that's what lots of warned, suspended, purgatoried and banned users here would be saying if they had accounts that they could say it on...

^Proving my point.

Well your point is literally "waaaaahhhh"

And yes, I was intentionally trying to prove that your point is "waaaaahhhh" so... was that supposed to be a gotcha?
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Antifar posted...

Very_Unreliable posted...

No. Citation not needed. If you libel me, I should have a means of defense.

It's not libel to call the nofap "western civilization" gang alt-right.

Good, and I hope more groups like them get banned.
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