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Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
January 12, 2020
Is it because of sanctions, or because Instagram is owned by Mark Zuckerberg, who happens to be Jewish?
I don’t understand how you can sanction social media posts.
CNN:
Instagram and its parent company Facebook are removing posts that voice support for slain Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani to comply with US sanctions, a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement to CNN Business Friday.
The Iranian government has called for nationwide legal action against Instagram in protest, even creating a portal on a government website for the app’s users to submit examples of posts the company removed, Iranian state media reported.
Instagram is one of the few western social media platforms that is not blocked in Iran. Facebook and Twitter are blocked but some Iranians access those sites using VPNs.
In a tweet, Iran’s government spokesperson, Ali Rabiei, called Instagram’s actions “undemocratic.”
Instagram shut down Soleimani’s own account on the platform last April after the US government designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a foreign terrorist organization. Soleimani was an IRGC commander.
“We operate under US sanctions laws, including those related to the US government’s designation of the IRGC and its leadership,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement.
Iranian soccer player Alireza Jahanbakhsh, who has a verified Instagram account, posted a photo of Soleimani after his death. Jahanbakhsh said Instagram had removed that post.
Yes, they did say that the IRGC is a terrorist organization.
But that means you’re not allowed to post on the internet about it?
ISIS never gets banned from social media, and they use it for actual recruiting (which is definitely illegal).
Facebook isn’t even saying that the US government told them to not allow pictures of Soleimani.
Anyway – weird move.
