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On Facebook it now seems that merely writing about – and then sharing those writings – could violate community standards.
One thing that is often taught to students of history is that "history" didn't happen. Events happened in the past, but history is just our way of chronicling those events. There is also a saying that history is written by the winners, but that too isn't entirely accurate - if history were only written by the winners we'd never hear of the setbacks, mistakes made by generals or losses incurred by said winners. History, to put it bluntly, is written by historians and those with knowledge of past events.
On Facebook it now seems that merely writing about - and then sharing those writings - could violate community standards. Even in this era of "fake news" it isn't so easy to understand why the social network has taken this stance, but that was the case with a recent story that marked the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
This reporter wrote the piece, titled "
Fact: Adolf Hitler Could Have Won World War II," for The National Interest and shared it on several Facebook groups devoted to military history. While the title could be seen to be provocative and perhaps even slightly shocking, this story wasn't meant as a glorification for Nazi Germany or Hitler, but was rather a straight forward look into the facts.
Comment: Those buffoons in the black block brigade don't realize they're far closer to being Nazis than the ones protesting against the lockdowns.