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2014-07-29 Home Front: Culture Wars

Facebook says page calling for death to Jews doesn't violate 'community standards'

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-07-29 04:05|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I don't have a facebook account. Not that I am anti social, just that some things I can do without.

Posted by Thineng Angailet7166 2014-07-29 04:47|| 2014-07-29 04:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Someone needs to make a "Death to Palestinian Hamas Death Worshipping Muslim Terrorists" page to see if that gets shot down.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-07-29 05:10|| 2014-07-29 05:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Probably just another GIVErnment funded social media experiment with FACEBOOK. 😎👍

Posted by Airandee 2014-07-29 05:58|| 2014-07-29 05:58|| Front Page Top

#4 I do have a Facebook account. I started it to keep an eye on the trailing daughters and especially temporary daughter, who is very bright but lacked judgement. I've met some interesting people there. But I'm afraid I'm not very profitable for the company, as I don't pay any attention to their ads, either the ones on the sidebar or the ones that show up in my "newsfeed".

Posted by trailing wife 2014-07-29 06:48|| 2014-07-29 06:48|| Front Page Top

#5 How long would "Death To All People Named Zuckerberg" stay up?

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-07-29 08:25|| 2014-07-29 08:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Time to "unfriend" Facebook?

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-29 08:38|| 2014-07-29 08:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Facebook is not your friend, or anyone else's.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-29 09:06|| 2014-07-29 09:06|| Front Page Top

#8 TW,

You're profitable to FB. You gave them cookies.

Posted by Vespasian Oppressor of the Visigoths8235 2014-07-29 09:18|| 2014-07-29 09:18|| Front Page Top

#9 I also have a FB account - use it to communicate with friends and family and get information from various groups (NRA, Arduino, etc...). It would be nice if there was an alternate tool just as good.

I don't give it private information (not even birthday). It's a tool - a public tool. Treat it like a public billboard.

And I have no doubt that any 'death to Hamas' page would be taken down in an instant.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-07-29 09:21|| 2014-07-29 09:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Update - Facebook folded to pressure yesterday afternoon & took the page down.

Posted by Raj 2014-07-29 10:04|| 2014-07-29 10:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Pressure is the only way to get these leftist idiots to do anything.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-07-29 11:37|| 2014-07-29 11:37|| Front Page Top

#12 It's not that they eventually took it down, it's that someone there made the initial judgement that such horseshit was ok and left it up after initial complaints. THAT shows the nature of the political culture at "Bookface".

Posted by OldSpook 2014-07-29 12:07|| 2014-07-29 12:07|| Front Page Top

#13 We don't jow if that was Fecbook or some leftist employee/leftist supervisor who is/are now on unemployment.

BTW; I am no Facebook fanboy. In fact I am not on it.

Posted by JFM 2014-07-29 12:26|| 2014-07-29 12:26|| Front Page Top

#14 Exactly what "comunity" is this?

Posted by Zenobia Elminesh9500 2014-07-29 13:41|| 2014-07-29 13:41|| Front Page Top

#15 community

PIMF

Posted by Zenobia Elminesh9500 2014-07-29 13:42|| 2014-07-29 13:42|| Front Page Top

#16 I used to have a FB account. It was good posting up field work, trips, interesting things. But FB started manipulating contacts posting, and after a while, felt that I was being used and spied upon. So I gave it the olde heave ho. Would like another forum, but I found that my life is quite good w/o FB.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2014-07-29 14:40|| 2014-07-29 14:40|| Front Page Top

#17 I still don't see why Facebook is so huge and without competition. Doesn't seem that what makes them good should be all that impossible to duplicate. Myspace did most of it 5 years earlier, Facebook just made it bare-bones and more of a restricted club (at least initially).

Someone needs to come up with an alternate. Not even a conservative alternate, just a non-political one.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-07-29 14:58|| 2014-07-29 14:58|| Front Page Top

#18 I do miss all your interesting project posts though, AP.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-07-29 15:04|| 2014-07-29 15:04|| Front Page Top

#19 It takes a number of complaints. I'm glad they took them down, there were three of the death to Israel sites. I files complaints on all of them. I think they give standard responses until a number of people complain. Conservative people, by nature, do not complain publicly. In chat groups but not publicly. We need to get our voice heard more. Keep it up.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-07-29 18:41|| 2014-07-29 18:41|| Front Page Top

#20 I agree, Glenmore. I liked to post projects, like the water plant in the Aleutians, Iceland geothermal plants, neat scenery in the Faroe Islands. Hated to pull out, but it was becoming too much with FB policies. I post once in a while in the O-club.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2014-07-29 18:58|| 2014-07-29 18:58|| Front Page Top

#21 The page is back up.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-07-29 20:26|| 2014-07-29 20:26|| Front Page Top

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