Facebook was accused of supporting Nazism

The head of the Ministry of justice of Greece Stavros Kontonis subjected to charges Facebook in support of Nazism after removal of the review of the Greek journalist Nikos Botopoulos, the Ministry said.

Facebook June 2, deleted the publication and blocked on the day the page of the journalist who wrote about the massacre in the village of Kandanos in Crete during the German occupation. Mayopoulos recalled that in June 1941 for resistance to the invaders shot the 180 villagers, their houses burned. Kandanos said dead zone, it was banned to restore it. The journalist said that at the present time in Greece the idea of national socialism is reviving the far-right party " Golden dawn ".

at the meeting of the EU Council of Ministers on problems of justice and internal Affairs, held in Luxembourg, the Greek Minister of justice Kontonis said that the introduction of censorship from Facebook is not a valid tool to silence as a historical memory of the atrocities of the Nazis in Kandanos and the desire to hide neo-Nazi ideology of the members of " Golden dawn ". In November the past year, Facebook has twice blocked the account of the journalist VGTRK Andrey Medvedev that he left the post about resonant speech in the Bundestag of the Yamal schoolboy Nicholas Desyatnichenko.

Initially, Medvedev showed the redesigned version made in the Bundestag speech, telling about the cruelty of German soldiers during the great Patriotic war. However, Facebook blocked the page of a journalist for " spreading pornography ". Medvedev has again published the post, but this time the administration of the social network charged him with "inciting hatred of certain groups" (probably by the Nazis) and again blocked the account.


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