Should Facebook ban anti-lockdown protests? The thorny questions of civil rights amid coronavirus

Should Facebook ban anti-lockdown protests? The thorny questions of civil rights amid coronavirus

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/20/facebook-anti-lockdown-protests-bans

Company has removed pages in several US states, highlighting challenges over private company’s influence on public square

Facebook said on Monday that it was banning users from organizing “events that defy government’s guidance on social distancing”. The company’s decision to selectively enforce state public health orders came amid a spate of rallies protesting against statewide stay-at-home orders in cities cross the US, and it drew condemnation from rightwing supporters of the protest movement, Donald Trump Jr and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).