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Red alert in the USA: the sentence arrives in the Chauvin / Floyd case. Facebook censors

We are winding down before the sentence on the Derek Chauvin case, accused of killing George Floyd. The National Guard takes a stand across Minneapolis ahead of the verdict, and Facebook takes a stand by announcing heavy moderation, read censorship, heavily on its platform to remove posts promoting civil unrest or violence in Minneapolis, according to Bloomberg.

The social media giant will remove posts celebrating or praising George Floyd's death, and it's good for you. It will be very interesting to see, which we doubt if it also removes the posts used to coordinate the protests, many of which will become violent protests. The company considers Derek Chauvin a public figure and George Floyd an "involuntary public figure", so you can insult the first a priori, but you can't say anything about the second.

Facebook will allow users to discuss the trial and attorneys, but will remove content that violates their "hate speech, bullying, graphic violence and incitement" policies. It is unknown if they will remove clips of Congressman Maxine Waters cheering on a crowd before members of the National Guard were injured in a weekend shooting.

All pages, groups, events and Instagram accounts that violate their policies will be removed by the moderator teams who will monitor the events to determine if the positions are considered high risk.

On Monday, jurors will listen to concluding discussions before starting to deliberate that Chauvin, a former white police officer, caused George Floyd's death after holding him on the ground by kneeling on him for about nine minutes on May 25. 2020. Floyd, a 46-year-old black suspect who had a huge amount of drugs in his system, advanced heart disease, and COVID-19 at the time of his death.

Police were originally called to the scene after Floyd allegedly used counterfeit money to pay for cigarettes. Chauvin's attorneys said he correctly followed the training he received during his 19 years with the Minneapolis Police Department.

As Reuters notes, "prosecutors told the jury that they are evaluating the guilt of one man, but their verdict will still be widely seen as a showdown in how the United States controls blacks."

During the discussion of the case it turned out that Floyd had a heart condition and that he still had synthetic drugs in his body. If Chauvin were acquitted we would see large-scale riots, but I don't know if we will talk about it on FB.

Much more likely we'll talk about it on telegram or Minds


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The article Red alert in the USA: the sentence arrives in the Chauvin / Floyd case. Facebook censorship comes from ScenariEconomici.it .


This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/allarme-rosso-negli-usa-arriva-la-sentenza-nel-caso-chauvin-floyd-facebook-censura/ on Tue, 20 Apr 2021 06:00:20 +0000.