BREAKING: @facebook just announced a new policy banning content that promotes white nationalism and white separatism as impermissible hate speech, following nine months of advocacy from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
.@facebook's new policy declares white nationalism and white separatism to be equivalent to white supremacy, and prohibits any praise, support or representation of these hateful ideologies.
There is no defensible distinction that can be drawn between white supremacy, white nationalism or white separatism in society today. By maintaining this distinction, Facebook ended up providing violent racists a platform that could be exploited to promote hate.
.@KristenClarkeJD: "While we are pleased that Facebook is taking long overdue action, we know well that communities are still reeling from the rise in hate & racially motivated violence, & that extensive remedial action must be taken to ensure that hate is eliminated..." 
@KristenClarkeJD Facebook has officially banned white nationalism and white separatism from its platform, calls the ideologies "inherently hateful" motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…
@KristenClarkeJD For the past year, we have lobbied @Facebook over the policy change.
We undertook extensive advocacy with Facebook, including the issuance of a letter that demonstrated that “white nationalism and white separatism are white supremacy”. documentcloud.org/documents/4910…
We undertook extensive advocacy with Facebook, including the issuance of a letter that demonstrated that “white nationalism and white separatism are white supremacy”. documentcloud.org/documents/4910…
@KristenClarkeJD .@KristenClarkeJD: "While Facebook’s new policies are one step forward in the fight against white supremacist movements, much work remains to be done...@facebook also needs to enforce those policies consistently..." changetheterms.org/terms
@KristenClarkeJD @facebook .@KristenClarkeJD: "Without proper implementation, policies will prove to be just empty words, and white supremacy will continue to proliferate across its platform.” washingtonpost.com/technology/201…
@KristenClarkeJD @facebook See our full press release in response to Facebook's new policy regarding the banning White Nationalism and White Separatism on the platform ---> bit.ly/2U0rlab
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