Facebook on Friday appealed
against a recent Rome court order to reactivate the accounts of
neo-Fascist group CasaPound.
A spokesman for the social network said "there is concrete
evidence that CasaPound committed organised hatred and
repeatedly broke our rules".
"That is why we have appealed".
Facebook said "we don't want people or groups that spread
hate or attack others on the basis of who they are to use our
services.
"It doesn't matter who they are".
The spokesman said "we have a policy on dangerous people and
organisations which bans those involved in 'organised hate' from
using our services.
"Political parties and candidates, like all the individuals
and organisations present on Facebook and Instagram, must
respect these rules, no matter what their ideologies".
On December 12 the Rome civil court ordered Facebook to carry
out the immediate reactivation of CasaPound's facebook page, as
well as the personal profile and public page of its
administrator Davide Di Stefano.
Facebook had deactivated these accounts on September 9.
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