{"id":8111,"date":"2019-03-02T17:26:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T17:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/facebook-bans-tommy-robinsons-page\/"},"modified":"2019-03-02T17:26:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T17:26:04","slug":"facebook-bans-tommy-robinsons-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/facebook-bans-tommy-robinsons-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook bans Tommy Robinson&#8217;s page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Tommy Robinson\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/9ACE\/production\/_105803693_mediaitem100609783.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Facebook has taken down anti-Islamic activist Tommy Robinson&#8217;s official page and Instagram profile for violating its policies on hate speech.<\/p>\n<p>The former English Defence League leader was deemed to have been engaged in &#8220;organised hate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A number of posts on his page had violated the social network&#8217;s community standards, Facebook said <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2019\/02\/removing-tommy-robinson\/\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">in a blogpost.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It said that it had not taken the decision to remove his page lightly but added he would not be allowed back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When ideas and opinions cross the line and amount to hate speech that may create an environment of intimidation and exclusion for certain groups in society &#8211; in some cases with potentially dangerous offline implications &#8211; we take action,&#8221; Facebook said in a post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tommy Robinson&#8217;s Facebook page has repeatedly broken these standards, posting material that uses dehumanising language and calls for violence targeted at Muslims. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has also behaved in ways that violate our policies around organised hate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ban means that Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, will not be allowed to set up an official Facebook page or Instagram profile in future.<\/p>\n<p>According to Facebook, a written warning had been sent to Mr Robinson last month about a number of posts on his page that had violated its community standards, including:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">a post calling Muslims &#8220;filthy scum bags&#8221;<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">a post urging people to terrorise and behead those who follow the Koran<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">a post urging people to &#8220;make war&#8221; on Muslims<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">multiple videos depicting individuals being bullied<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In January, YouTube suspended adverts on Mr Robinson&#8217;s account, saying he had broken the site&#8217;s advertising rules. <\/p>\n<p>At the time, Mr Robinson denied they contained any &#8220;hateful&#8221; content and said he was the victim of censorship.<\/p>\n<p>In November, PayPal said it would no longer process payments for Mr Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Mr Robinson, 35, was jailed for contempt of court. The 13-month sentence sparked a series of #freetommy protests. The conviction was later quashed after procedural concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The case has now been referred to the attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2018, Mr Robinson was banned from Twitter. It is understood that his account was suspended for breaking its &#8220;hateful conduct policy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-47371290\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Facebook has taken down anti-Islamic activist Tommy Robinson&#8217;s official page and Instagram profile for violating its policies on hate speech. The former English Defence League leader was deemed to have been engaged in &#8220;organised hate&#8221;. A number of posts on his page had violated the social network&#8217;s community standards, Facebook said &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}