{"id":4195,"date":"2020-07-12T17:48:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T21:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4195"},"modified":"2020-07-12T17:48:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T21:48:47","slug":"canadian-big-banks-declare-war-on-free-speech-strong-arm-facebook-to-up-censorship-of-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4195","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Big Banks Declare War on Free Speech & Strong Arm Facebook to Up Censorship of “Hate Speech”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Canadian Big Banks Declare War on Free Speech & Strong Arm Facebook to Up Censorship of “Hate Speech”<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Sad to report, Canada’s five major banks and several other corporations like Lululemon have joined major U.S. firms like Coke in a campaign to try to force Facebook to censor “hate speech” and divisive or misleading posts. The campaign has been organized, not surprisingly, by the militantly anti-free speech and very well funded Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith in the U.S. If you are a client or shareholder of any of these companies, complain. “Hate speech”, of course, is very vague. Actually, it is speech the accuser hates. The complaint about “divisiveness” is ludicrous. Surely, any comment that takes one side of an issue is divisive and may offend people who take the opposite side of the issue. The major corporations are using their might to try to crack down on opinion on the hugely popular platform to people to share their lives and express their opinions.
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CBC<\/strong> (July 1, 2020) reported: “All five of Canada’s\nbiggest banks are joining an international boycott of Facebook over concerns\nthat the platform is complicit in promoting racism, violence and\nmisinformation. Scotiabank, RBC, CIBC, BMO and TD have pledged to stop\npurchasing ads on the site for the month, aligning themselves with brands such\nas Lululemon Athletica and Mountain Equipment Co-op in signing onto the StopHateForProfit<\/a>\ncampaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The initiative, spearheaded by organizations\nlike the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation League, began in response to growing\nanti-Semitic and anti-Black rhetoric found on the social media platform. Participating\nbrands will suspend all advertising on the platform for the month of July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scotiabank announced its intentions on\nTuesday, while the four other banks confirmed on Wednesday that they would\nfollow suit. A spokesperson for RBC said the company understands that\nsystemic racism has disadvantaged Black people, Indigenous people and people of\ncolour, and the bank intends to combat that. ‘One way we can do that is by\nstanding against misinformation and hate speech, which only make systemic\nracism more pervasive,’ AJ Goodman said. A spokesperson for Bank of Montreal\ntold CBC News that the bank ‘will pause its advertising on Facebook and\nInstagram during the month of July, while continuing our ongoing dialogue with\nFacebook on changes they can make to their platforms to reduce the spread of\nhate speech.’ TD said it had also “paused” its advertising for the month\nand added that the bank is ‘committed to the fight against racism and hate\nspeech and to the work needed to help create a safer and more inclusive\nsociety.'”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not that\nFacebook is a stalwart supporter of free speech. Last year, it banned\n“White Supremacists” and “White nationalists”, but not\nZionists (Jewish nationalists) or any assortment of haters of Christians and\nWhite people. Indeed, we see few supporters of free speech in many important\nareas of our society: “At the beginning of June \u2014 shortly after Trump\nthreatened via social media to order the military to shoot anti-racism\nprotesters \u2014 hundreds of Facebook employees staged a virtual walkout to protest\nthe company’s refusal to label the post as hate speech. A spokesperson for\nFacebook noted that the company has suspended more than 250 white supremacist\ngroups from the platform but did not specifically comment on the boycott.”
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