The UK’s Independent is reporting that Steve Bannon’s Facebook page remains active despite posting a video of his call for the beheading of Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray. Not over the line says Jared-bro Zucky
FACEBOOK: STEVE BANNON’S CALL FOR ANTHONY FAUCI TO BE BEHEADED DO NOT BREAK ITS RULES, ZUCKERBERG SAYS
Bannon, a former advisor to president Donald Trump and the ex- executive chairman of Breitbart News, said in a video that FBI Director Christopher Wray and government infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci should be beheaded for disloyalty to Mr Trump.
"I'd put the heads on pikes. Right. I'd put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you are gone," Bannon said in the video.
Facebook removed the video but Bannon’s Facebook page, which has approximately 175,000 followers, remains active.
"We have specific rules around how many times you need to violate certain policies before we will deactivate your account completely," Zuckerberg said, according to Reuters who obtained a recording of the CEO’s comments in response to a question from a Facebook employee on why Bannon had not been banned. "While the offenses here, I think, came close to crossing that line, they clearly did not cross the line."
I’ve never been a Facebook user so I don’t really have a dog in this fight other than being a peacenik adverse to gruesome incitements to stochastic violence, but considering such a post would be a gross violation of Daily Kos site rules and would surely result in immediate banning, I have to wonder, has the time has come for this site to remove the Facebook cross-posting buttons?