A couple of days ago I published a post blasting the popular website Facebook for stifling debate (in this case about the so-called Armenian genocide). Facebook shut down two popular (pro-)Turkish websites in one week time: one called “The Greatest Leader of ALL Time: Atatürk,” the other called “The Armenian Genocide is a Huge Lie.”

Now, whether one agrees that it’s a ‘lie’ - or better, whether what happened constitutes genocide - or not, stifling debate is seldom the right course of action. There are cases in which it is - such as terrorism - but this issue deals with history, it was and is about historical events, about which a debate exists. Historians disagree with each other about this issue, (more…)