Mark Zuckerberg defends censorship policies despite Charlie Hebdo support
This article is about Mark Zuckerberg supporting freedom of speech through Facebook however agrees that censorship is still needed to avoid outrage.
- Zuckerberg’s status update on 9 January promising “a service where you can speak freely without fear of violence”
- He was asked why he had spoken out about the Charlie Hebdo attack, but not about other violent events around the world, including in Iraq and Palestine.
“It wasn’t just a terrorist attack about just trying to do some damage and make people afraid and hurt people. This was specifically about people’s freedom of expression and ability to say what they want,” said Zuckerberg. - Although he took pains to stress that all terrorist incidents are “really horrible”, Zuckerberg said he spoke out about Charlie Hebdo because he saw it as an attack of freedom of expression, and so particularly relevant to Facebook.
- Zuckerberg said that Facebook resists breaking the law in countries purely on a point of principle of defending free speech.
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