Meta oversight board says calling for "death to" Iranian leader should be allowed

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Meta oversight board says calling for "death to" Iranian leader should be allowed

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Oversight Board has overturned the decision to remove a Facebook post using the slogan “death to Khamenei,” to criticise Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, saying it did not violate a rule barring violent threats.

The board, which is funded by Meta but operates independently, said in the context of the “broader social, political and linguistic situation” in Iran, “death to” should be understood as “down with,” according to a write-up of the decision.

[Bloomberg]

 

[Avbob se stoep]

The board, which is funded by Meta but operates independently

Hmmmm interessting.

 

[BBSA]

Is “death to Putin” allowed?

 

[Ragnarök]

Wonder if the name was replaced with Netanyahu ,what the outcome would be

 

[Kosmik]

It's taken out of context......

 

[r00igev@@r]

 

[Lucas Buck]

Kill the boer...

in the context of the “broader social, political and linguistic situation”

Many will actually mean what they say. The oversight board shouldn't selectively apply context because they disagree with the Iranian regime.

 

[ShaunSA]

Death to Mark Zuckerberg!

 

[ShaunSA]

#metamustdie!

 

[ShaunSA]

Is “death to De Ruyter” allowed?

You'd have most of MyBB howling for your head!

 

[_TrXtR_]

Ah yeah, I made a comment "off with her head" towards pelosi and that got removed. They have no respect for articulated speech
I said they should hang Zuma and also got blocked.

They are a social media company not a speech monitoring company? They should drop their monitoring and provide tools to government to make the stupid decisions. I think that is the direction twitter is going to go.
Rather use a point system to lower a post appearance than sit and decide who is allowed to say what. It doesn't make sense. Let people say what they want to say and suffer the consequences from their government. Leave the post let it always be seen what the person said.

Digital is going to destroy our history.
And it is going to do it in favor of those in power positions if this censorship **** keeps going