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while i’m sure most of us aren’t fans of racism or hateful and inflammatory expression, i don’t thing most of us would go far as suspending freedom of expression. british national paper, metro is reporting that there is a substantial effort within the facebook community to ban unpopular speech.

now to be fair, facebook’s terms and conditions do say that any groups that are promoting material seen as ‘harmful, threatening, hateful or racially or ethnically objectionable’ can be removed. and since facebook is not a public forum, facebook users aren’t protected by the first amendment and facebook would be right within their terms to regulate what is said on their site. this does however beg the question, how much should online communities regulate expression? should organizations like the kkk and the dnp, as despicable as they are, be able to express themselves?