Glad I'm not the only one who sees it for what it is. Black racists can post as much hate speech as they want and its always excused with history, colonialism, slavery and always it's justified because Black people are somehow more discriminated than white people in America even though the president of the USA is Black and Blacks have largely equal rights as white people, in-fact Blacks are more equal than whites, It's always excused with "that's not really racism" which translate only white people can be racist, yet comments such as this one (one I'm writing) get deleted due to "hate speech". I've noticed that Facebook is a particularly bad case, they actually promote Black racists, Feminist hate speech, hate speech coming from the LGBT community, supporting Islam, promoting hate speech from the muslim community against everybody else, hate speech against the Greeks, Eastern Europeans, Russians, Serbs, it's Facebook's entire business model: propaganda which serves the interests of the current powers that be.

What's worse Facebook does not outright censor all hate speech for example it permits and outright pushes hate speech coming from Black racists, Feminists, gay men to your newsfeed, it's a trend everywhere and its probably why Facebook even exists and makes money. Ask yourself why else would a costly service allowing people to store HUGE amounts of photos, each photo is a couple of Megabytes, each person who actively uses Facebook has Gigabytes worth of photos, now total it all up it probably numbers in the zettabytes and yottabytes, this is a costly service, server computer do not come cheap and maintaining a network and cloud of such size is incredibly costly. Yes sure ads make up for some of it, but ads cannot possibly make up for all of it considering nobody clicks on FB ads and companies know that nobody clicks on them and nobody cares about them. FB probably makes money from selling data to the NSA and propaganda, promoting leftist agenda, etc. If that weren't the case they would be charging us through the roof for their service.

The reason is that Facebook in China would allow a back door to the USA. It would essentially allow the USA to pull an Arab Spring in China, wasn't the Arab Spring started on Twitter? That's the main purpose of social networks, why do you think they are free?

Nothing didn't you get the irony? The above comment was ridiculing Serbs for hating Turks however change the perspective a little, replace Serbs with Black people and Turks with White people and Ottoman empire with colonialism and suddenly it is now a big serious issue unlike the joke above, his comment would be deleted and we wouldn't even care, in-fact all of us would be in full support suddenly forgetting our anti-censorship stance whereas if a comment insulting Ataturk or a comment against the Chinese gets deleted we would be up in arms about the censorship of our precious free for all Internet.

It worked out very well now Germany has now effectively colonized Eastern Europe no way Russia is taking over again, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland and Greece are now nice sources of slave labour ala China, and with all this Germany has a devalued currency to export it's stock under lower prices.

I don't understand how this creates such an outcry yet censoring posts which are perceived to be racist (racism is only considered such if the perpetrators white and the victim is not white) is not a problem in fact everyone supports the banning of "hate speech" yet this Turkish thing has everyone screaming censorship.

African colonialism and US slavery were gone before most of todays black kids were born however they still go on and on about colonialism and justify for everything that is wrong in their lives so why shouldn't Serbian people have the same attitude towards Turks I mean nobody would dare say Black people shouldn't be pissed about Colonialism. Ooops this comment is likely to get censored due to "racism" but then again nobody will care, "OMG CENSORSHIP ON SLASHDOT. Racism ohh okay no problem then."

EU is a dictatorship just with a different face of course it's not as bad as Turkey. As for Cyprus, the EU and US fully endorses and supports Turkey, because Turkey is their biggest ass kisser in the middle east, need to start a revolution or send reinforcements to anti-government rebels in Syria, Turkey is here to help. If the US/EU cared about the "territorial integrity" of Cyprus they would have bombed Turkey like they bombed Serbia in the 90s, like they bombed Iraqi forces in Kuwait during the first gulf war, or at the very least would be non stop complaining about territorial integrity violations like they are with Crimea and Abkhazia.

The Internet is controlled. Who is responsible for delivering the Internet: a bunch of ISP's, whilst every country has their own local ISP's the International fibre optic links are controlled by a handle of multinational US corporations. Who controls the assigning static IP addresses, i.e. the IP addresses which allow you to host your own web page, that's right a few corporations. Who controls domain name servers, a hand full of the same corporations which control IP addresses and the fibre optic links. Now the question is can the people who control the Internet take down content which they do not like, they most certainly can a notable example is Megaupload which was taken down, wasn't even hosted in the US, due to copyright infringement. If I decide to do something similar, distributing free copies of popular music, distributing pirated movies and software I will be arrested and my content will be taken down. There are certain things which are censored on the Internet: child pornography (adult pornography is not censored), content containing "racist", "hate speech" will be censored but of course that again is influenced by politics: Black people can post all the racist bigoted hate speech they want but the same privilege does not extend to white people. There are plenty of other cases which are censored but usually fall under these three categories "hate speech", "copyright infringement" or "terrorism" the last one of course is BS and is used to censor anything which the politicians don't like. The Internet is censored, Facebook's actions are nothing new.

The EU doesn't isn't going to have an coherent policy against ISIS. Everyone even the brain dead imbeciles know that ISIS is a US/EU/CIA/whatever creation.

Western ideals don't exist. The Western ideal is to silently censor whatever is not convenient for the political agenda and then pretend to follow some ideals when there is an attempt to censor propaganda in favor of their agenda.

Do you really think the West gives a crap about Kurds or anybody else. Turkey is the west's biggest ally.

The infrastructure is already in use. Facebook is just a propaganda machine serving the NSA and US military. Just take a look at the cesspit Facebook is nowadays, I can't even spend a minute on Facebook without being bombarded with articles telling me how guilty I should be for being white and how a white girl not wanting to "go out" with a black is racism and how I should condemn it and blah blah blah, (I'm Eastern European btw). Facebook also promotes Islam, anti-Greek articles, anti-Russian articles, and whatever serves the political agenda of the powers that be, that means standing up for Kurds, white people, Greeks, Eastern Europeans, Russians is out of the picture and censored. That's Facebook and Googles business model, not just data mining but modern day propaganda.

He was being sarcastic you know.

The Internet is not free, the Internet was built as a US military project. Directly after the end of the cold war (coincidence I think not) it became public however it still serves the same masters: the US military, the NSA, and corporations. If you think the Internet is this free place to serve you and me and average Joe you are wrong.