The New Facebook Rules

Facebook announces:

We remove dehumanizing speech, allegations of serious immorality or criminality, and slurs. We also remove harmful stereotypes, which we define as dehumanizing comparisons that have historically been used to attack, intimidate, or exclude specific groups, and that are often linked with offline violence. Finally, we remove serious insults, expressions of contempt or disgust, cursing, and calls for exclusion or segregation when targeting people based on protected characteristics.

This list seems like an improvement over their system of fact-checkers. They put a lot of thought into this, so it is interesting to see what they concluded.

Harmful stereotypes historically linked to intimidation or violence, such as Blackface; Holocaust denial; claims that Jewish people control financial, political, or media institutions; references to Dalits as menial laborers; and comparing Black people to farm equipment.

I did not know that any of those things were linked to intimidation or violence. Blackface was mainly done for entertainment. You could run into trouble with Jews by just stating facts.

Finally, sometimes people curse at a gender in the context of a romantic break-up. Our policies are designed to allow room for these types of speech.

So if I just broke up with my girlfriend and I am upset about it, I guess I can say that I hate women.