tommy robinson, if you... why don't you ask him his real points of view.lly last week, which was basically sponsored by tommy robinson and his news service. we would not have been able to hold that otherwise because we could not have spent the money to pay for it. you make these accusations, which i am rather tired. have you not read his tweets? it is not causing —— calling him names, it is describing some of the things he says on the platforms that he had times as shared with you and also looking at the way he uses social media. he is offensive. he has never said anything racist. i would not be with him on a platform if he had. he talks about islamic ideology and that is fair enough to have a critique of an ideology. that does not make somebody a bad person or justify the names does not make somebody a bad person orjustify the names he gets called. all these people who keep asking me about tommy robinson, why don't you have him on the show? it is legitimate to ask you about stephen yaxley—lennon, as his real name is, because you choose to appear in public

tommy robinson and a number of his colleagues dry to storm a constituency mps office.ries lie but when you've got a business like facebook that has allowed the live streaming of a massacre in christchurch, you know there's something fundamentally broken with the model. that's why we say you can't deal with with one piece of this, this is a complex industry and dealing with one piece of that which the government has done today isn't going to make much ofa done today isn't going to make much of a difference in if you put in place the jigs of other regulations around hate speech, advertising money, around competition regulation, until you ship the whole syste m regulation, until you ship the whole system onto a new level, you are going to have some of the problems p0p going to have some of the problems p013 ”p going to have some of the problems pop up in different formats. what's your view about this british woman in dubai who wrote while she was in the uk on facebook that someone else was a horse, she's going to dubai, been detained, what would seem disproportionate to u

same party of the past it's changed considerably with the new leadership affiliating itself with tommy robinsonch harder line approach makes taking a much harder line approach ma kes eve nts taking a much harder line approach makes events nigel farage has distanced himself from. another way the defections may happen including some mep so what you think is the aim here when he she's up to with this because critics will say it's just an ego trip he fell out with them and there's no political homemade does not want to retire to the countryside at the end of his current term as an enemy people what you think is a ms. 7 current term as an enemy people what you think is a ms. ? i think it's sheer frustration and the fact that we should have been out in march according to teresa and a's promises, and that has not happened. so he's trying to hold government fee to the fire that was his promise, that i had a chat with them earlier today about the whole thing, and he said he's very cautious about number, but he also says people are fed up with visible politicians who are endlessly blackmailing people ove

in february, facebook banned stephen yaxley—lennon, better known as tommy robinson.ecause the tech giants don't always release the figures. thank you, every single one of you... but millions across the world and many in the united kingdom like and enjoy access to views that they don't see on traditional media. we don't need the media to report that, because we are the media! facebook is being dragged into uncomfortable terrain. the company wants to be impartial, but there's no getting around the fact that today saw a californian corporation, whose upper echelons are liberal, clamping down on parts of the british hard right. and the company says it is not in the truth business, but today's decision was based on the application of subjective criteria to public opinion. there is an old—fashioned word for that — it's journalism. wary of accusations of censorship, the danger is that global tech giants end up creating national martyrs who simply congregate elsewhere. amol rajan, bbc news. hello there. for all four nations of the uk, thursday was the warmest day of 2019 — s

in february, facebook banned stephen yaxley—lennon, better known as tommy robinson. because the tech giants don't always release the figures. thank you, every single one of you... but millions across the world and many in the united kingdom like and enjoy access to views that they don't see on traditional media. we don't need the media to report that, because we are the media! facebook is being dragged into uncomfortable terrain. the company wants to be impartial, but there's no getting around the fact that today saw a californian corporation, whose upper echelons are liberal, clamping down on parts of the british hard right. and the company says it is not in the truth business, but today's decision was based on the application of subjective criteria to public opinion. there is an old—fashioned word for that — it's journalism. wary of accusations of censorship, the danger is that global tech giants end up creating national martyrs who simply congregate elsewhere. amol rajan, bbc news. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: the heroes of n

in february, facebook banned stephen yaxley—lennon, better known as tommy robinson.h giants don't always release the figures. thank you, every single one of you... but millions across the world and many in the united kingdom like and enjoy access to views that they don't see on traditional media. we don't need the media to report that, because we are the media! facebook is being dragged into uncomfortable terrain. the company wants to be impartial, but there's no getting around the fact that today saw a californian corporation, whose upper echelons are liberal, clamping down on parts of the british hard right. and the company says it is not in the truth business, but today's decision was based on the application of subjective criteria to public opinion. there is an old—fashioned word for that — it's journalism. wary of accusations of censorship, the danger is that global tech giants end up creating national martyrs who simply congregate elsewhere. amol rajan, bbc news. more than 200 people have been killed in libya and 25,000 have been forced to flee their homes afte

if of facebook band stephen yaxley—lennon, but he known as tommy robinson. release their figures. robinson. the tech giants don't always release theirfigures. but millions across the world and many in the united kingdom like and enjoy access to views they do not see on traditional media. we don't need the media to report that because we are the media! facebook is being dragged into uncomfortable terrain. the company into uncomfortable terrain. the com pa ny wa nts to into uncomfortable terrain. the company wants to be impartial but there is no getting around the fact that today saw a california corporation whose upper echelons are liberal clamping down on parts of the british hard right. and the company says it's not in the truth business, but today's decision was based on the application of subjective criteria to public opinion. there is an old—fashioned word for that. it's journalism. opinion. there is an old—fashioned word for that. it'sjournalism. wary of accusations of censorship the danger is that global tech giants end up creating national martyrs who

tommy robinson is a red herring. he is a com plete robinson is a red herring.s connections, because ukip is the only mainstream political party that prescribes those who have been members of certain organisations like the bnp and so on. and that is not going to change anytime soon in my opinion. so why is mr batten playing footsie with them? because he is very concerned about islamism and we are all concerned about that. i do think that tony robinson has been demonised by the media and it is very difficult to talk sensibly about these issues without creating hysteria. but he did have a million plus follow us on facebook before they close this account. he is not just talking on his own and what he says it resonates with a large number of people and it is wrong to dismiss him. does it resonate with you? i am certainly as concerned as he is with the developments that have taken place in britain and recent yea rs have taken place in britain and recent years like the rape kings and it is all over the place. political correctness has made it difficult to talk about i

organizations where, you know, there are a whole -- i mean, we have this far-right activist called tommy robinson who's so much of his kind of appeal is that, which he uses youtube to spread. facebook just banned him and twitter have banned him, but he's still on youtube as far as i know. but he's, you know, this notion that the legacy institutions, the bottlenecks or the, of the public sphere, the bbc, are, you know, censor yous metropolitan elite that are trying to silence people, and obviously that's a key feature of this as well, yeah. >> so, you know, not to play devil's advocate, but what -- if i come, and i think this is sort of the silicon valley ideology, imagine, the way they imagine something like twitter, the way a certain kind of person imagines something like twitter is that you've replaced naturally corrupt, sort of naturally captured elite institutions that are providing inaccurate representation and replaced it with basically a marketplace of ideas. and the idea is that people who are strongest would win. why is that a problem? why is that wrong? i mean, beyond looking at the fro

early in the year when tommy robinson was and in february this year.e this going around bands to try and get their message out. it is not a long—term solution but it will restrict their message. what is the role of facebook in terms of being the arbiter of what is good and what is not? they are facing issues that other organisations have not faced before so facebook has to try and manage the situation as best it can't... under whose guidelines? this is what facebook is saying. that it is not a lwa ys facebook is saying. that it is not always that responsibility. they welcome other people in the decision—making process. this has big impact globally. we are seeing it work with other companies. it is all new territory. do they have the right to shut someone down? can someone right to shut someone down? can someone appeal it? can they make a decision, they do not like you, can they shut you down?|j decision, they do not like you, can they shut you down? i am sure they could have. if they don't like much... they are an organisation trying to be more transpa