Lower House Speaker Laura
Boldrini on Thursday blasted Facebook for blocking the post of a
young woman who reported that a closed group was publishing
stolen pictures of women accompanied by obscene comments.
"It is unacceptable that a global platform with 28 million
users in Italy alone, which says it wants to combat hate speech,
then uses censorship against someone who reports hate via the
publication of obscenities and violence, while not intervening
against those who do it and boast about it," Boldrini said on
her Facebook page.
Boldrini was commenting about the post by a young woman,
Arianna Drago, who highlighted some closed groups that allegedly
insulted woman and incited rape, among other things.
Drago said part of one of her posts had been blocked because
it did not respect the "standards of the community".
"What standards is this community based on?" commented
Boldrini.
"And which ones did Arianna breach by drawing attention to a
squalid practice that is deeply damaging to the dignity and
rights of women?".
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