Noted Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen on Monday alleged that the social media giant has once again banned her Facebook account for seven days. The author said on Twitter: “Facebook banned me again for 7 days for speaking the truth.
On March 16 this year, Nasreen had alleged that Facebook had barred her from using the platform for 24 hours.
“#Facebook banned me for 24 hours. My crime was that I liked the decision of Aaron, a Bangladeshi handicraft shop that didn’t hire a jihadi who refused to follow Aaron’s rules Shaved his beard to work as a salesman. Opposing Islamist Aaron,” she tweeted.
Whereas on March 17 he claimed that Bangladeshi governments had banned his books.
“Governments ban my books, jihadis burn my books and threaten book sellers not to sell my books. I have only one platform to express my views in Bengali, that is #fb. But when Also I use my freedom to write freely on FB My readers, FB has banned me. There is no free speech for free thinkers,” she added in another tweet.
Earlier in 2015, the author’s Facebook account was allegedly disabled by the social media company.
According to Facebook’s rules, an account will be banned if it violates its “hate speech” policy.
“We define hate speech as a direct attack against people – rather than concepts or institutions – based on what we call protected characteristics: race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religious affiliation, race, sexual orientation, Gender, gender identity and serious illness. We define attacks as violent or dehumanizing speech, harmful stereotypes, statements of inferiority, expressions of contempt, hatred or dismissal, cursing and calls for exclusion or separation, Facebook Policy said.
“We also forbid the use of harmful stereotypes, which we define as dehumanizing comparisons that have historically been used to attack, intimidate or exclude specific groups, and which are often associated with offline violence. are,” it added.
Nasreen left Bangladesh in 1994 in the wake of death threats by radical organizations for her alleged anti-Islamic views. Since then she has been living in exile.
(with ANI inputs)
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