From Yahoo! News (Apr 8, 2022): CPP hits Meta on removal of Facebook accounts (By Pola Rubio)
FILE PHOTO: A picture illustration shows a Facebook logo reflected in a person's eye March 13, 2015. On April 6, 2022, Meta suspended a network of over 400 accounts, pages and groups, including those linked to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New People's Army (NPA), ahead of general elections in the Philippines as the Facebook parent moves to crack down hate speech and misinformation.
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has criticized Meta’s move to take down a network of Facebook accounts of the New People’s Army (NPA) saying that it is “hypocritical” on Meta’s part when they allow posts proliferating red-tagging and violence.
“I think Facebook is utterly hypocritical when it took down the accounts related to the NPA, when it recently made a decision to allow calls for violence and death in Ukraine against Russia, even those accounts related to, promoting or ‘liking’ the views of pro-US neo-Nazi groups such as the Azov Battalion which have been involved in the rape and torture of civilians in Ukraine,” CPP spokesperson Marco Valbuena said in an interview with Inquirer.
The CPP said that it censors the people’s freedom of expression, especially those who ‘fight fascism and those who are against the interests of US imperialism.
“It bans the NPA on the pretext of banning ‘hate speech’ but continues to allow the NTF-ELCAC, AFP units and its network of trolls to red-tag and foment hate against the democratic forces,” Valbuena noted.
Meta has earlier suspended a network of over 400 accounts, pages, and groups ahead of the May elections in a move to crack down on hate speech and misinformation.
This includes a network of groups and pages belonging to the NPA, citing that it has violated Meta’s community standards regarding the posting of content encouraging violence.
However, CPP claimed that Meta’s decision means that revolutionary forces waging a guerrilla war in the countryside would have no voice.
“Facebook is shutting down all doors for the revolutionary forces in the Philippines to express their opinion. Even sharing a link to the CPP’s website is banned and people face the possibility of being banned if they do so,” Valbuena said.
The NPA has been waging war against the government for over fifty years. It is the principal organization of the CPP and served the ‘national and democratic interests of the people.’
“I think Facebook is utterly hypocritical when it took down the accounts related to the NPA, when it recently made a decision to allow calls for violence and death in Ukraine against Russia, even those accounts related to, promoting or ‘liking’ the views of pro-US neo-Nazi groups such as the Azov Battalion which have been involved in the rape and torture of civilians in Ukraine,” CPP spokesperson Marco Valbuena said in an interview with Inquirer.
The CPP said that it censors the people’s freedom of expression, especially those who ‘fight fascism and those who are against the interests of US imperialism.
“It bans the NPA on the pretext of banning ‘hate speech’ but continues to allow the NTF-ELCAC, AFP units and its network of trolls to red-tag and foment hate against the democratic forces,” Valbuena noted.
Meta has earlier suspended a network of over 400 accounts, pages, and groups ahead of the May elections in a move to crack down on hate speech and misinformation.
This includes a network of groups and pages belonging to the NPA, citing that it has violated Meta’s community standards regarding the posting of content encouraging violence.
However, CPP claimed that Meta’s decision means that revolutionary forces waging a guerrilla war in the countryside would have no voice.
“Facebook is shutting down all doors for the revolutionary forces in the Philippines to express their opinion. Even sharing a link to the CPP’s website is banned and people face the possibility of being banned if they do so,” Valbuena said.
The NPA has been waging war against the government for over fifty years. It is the principal organization of the CPP and served the ‘national and democratic interests of the people.’
https://ph.news.yahoo.com/cpp-hits-meta-on-removal-of-facebook-accounts-034609204.html
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