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The reports are absolutely true. Facebook suspended the Natural News account earlier today after we posted an historical quote from Mohandas Gandhi. The quote reads:
"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." - Mohandas Gandhi, an Autobiography, page 446.
and gave us a "final warning" that one more violation of their so-called "community guidelines" would result in our account being permanently deacti
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
[Gun Control] Facebook bans Gandhi quote as part of revisionist history purge
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The reports are absolutely true. Facebook suspended the Natural News account earlier today after we posted an historical quote from Mohandas Gandhi. The quote reads:
"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." - Mohandas Gandhi, an Autobiography, page 446.
and gave us a "final warning" that one more violation of their so-called "community guidelines" would result in our account being permanently deacti
Originally posted by Jameliel
Im going to quote it on Facebook and see what happens.
Originally posted by Jameliel
Im going to quote it on Facebook and see what happens.
Originally posted by cconn487
What we need is to get enough people to post that same quote over and over and then get together and make the obvious breach of the first amendment made more public.
I can see banning accounts for vulgar images or language, even threats. This is just ridiculous on so many levels.
Originally posted by SilentKoala
I'm starting to understand now how "they" are getting rid of the first amendment. They aren't going to get rid of it at all, they are just going to circumvent it by corporatizing all forms of information propagation, and get all of society to become solely dependent on those communication channels. Then they will fall back on the BS claim that "well it's private so we can censor all we want." Pure evil genius.
Originally posted by alfa1
The quote itself, and its context, is being discussed already in this thread, but if I was Facebook I'd be banning the naturalnews account simply because all of the other lies they tell.
I understand it's facebook, not a govt. entity, well officially that is.
Originally posted by alfa1
The quote itself, and its context, is being discussed already in this thread, but if I was Facebook I'd be banning the naturalnews account simply because all of the other lies they tell.
"Arms" in this context were military arms not the personal weapons of private individuals. The context of "depriving of the whole nation of arms" was the refusal of the British to conscript Indians into the British Army during the First World War. Gandhi was an extreme anti-militarist. The statement is odd coming out of him, but he used the circumstance for political purposes to advance the cause of Home Rule and Independence.