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December 28th, 2017 
Awake Goy 
Facebook has been banning women from its site for posting “hate speech” against men.
Hundreds of women who had their comments removed were taking part in the #MeToo campaign, a movement which started to stand up to sexual harassment in the wake of the scandals sweeping across Hollywood and other industries.
The bans came despite the fact that Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg wrote a Facebook post warning of the potential backlash women could face in light of the emerging scandals.
A number of women have come forward to stand up to the ban which also saw protesters who wrote “men are scum” have their posts removed.
Female comedian Marcia Belsky, was banned in October for 30 days after posting “men are scum” on her friend Nicole Silverberg’s photo album. The album detailed the abuse that Ms Silverberg had received after writing a list of ways in which men can treat women better.
Speaking to the Daily Dot, Ms Belsky said that it was not the first time she had been banned from Facebook for similar infractions.
Ms Belsky joins a whole host of women who have been banned from the site following similar incidences.
Fellow comedian Kayla Avery has been banned almost 10 times by Facebook. One of the first times she was banned was when she responded to male trolls who continued to harass her through her Facebook page using derogatory and sexist terms.
Ms Avery wrote: “ Men are the worst” and was banned from Facebook.
Speaking to the Daily Beast, she said: “There was one guy who was threatening to find my house and beat me up.
“I got banned before I could even successfully report it.
“How else can we have a genuine reaction to what’s going on? Facebook is absolutely silencing women.”
She flagged up the issue in a private Facebook group of 500 female comedians. The group then came together on November 24 to stage an online protest, where every member of the group posted “All men are scum,” or a similar term, all at once.
Every woman who took part in the protest was banned, according to the Daily Beast.
In response to the claims, Facebook told The Daily Beast: “We’ll look at ways to apply our policies in a more granular way, but we are a global platform.”
Facebook uses a specific algorithm to decipher which types of speech is allowed on its site according to ProPublica.
The social network had “protected categories” based on race, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation and elements. If hate speech is targeted at any of these categories then they are immediately removed.
However, ProPublica said that when hate speech is directed at subcategories, for example specific groups within a gender or religion, then these incidences can slip through the algorithm and will not be removed.
Some critics have said that these algorithms protect privileged groups over minorities.
Facebook told the Standard: “We understand how important it is for victims of harassment to be able to share their stories and for people to express anger and opinions about harassment—we allow those discussions on Facebook. We draw the line when people attack others simply on the basis of their gender.”
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