[jonKranked]

http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/20/facebookers-respond-to-draw-mohammed-day/?hpt=T2

article about groups on facebook. big surprise.

Rule 43 on this one.

 

[$tinkle]

what's not to love about drawing someone who serially raped a 7 y.o. girl?

sorry, "...who took a young bride"

(piss be upon him)

 

[jonKranked]

they always forget to mention that part.

 

[4xBoy]

I'm going to draw mohammed's face on a hoofed animal and to be fair minded, I will have a second one with the pope getting in the rear by Hitler.

 

[$tinkle]

:roflakhbar:

ed: the motherlode of drawrings
the motherlode of vids

 

[Secret Squirrel]

^^ That is some funny sh*t. I sh*t you not.

 

[kidwoo]

 

[Secret Squirrel]

and the best keep getting mo' betta.

 

[4xBoy]

 

[LOOnatic]

^^^^^ way funny dude!

 

[manimal]

 

[Pesqueeb]

Facebook says political correctness more important than the first amendment

LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan lifted a ban on Facebook on Monday after officials from the social networking site apologized for a page deemed offensive to Muslims and removed its contents, a top information technology official said.

The move came almost two weeks after Pakistan imposed the ban amid anger over a page that encouraged users to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Many Muslims regard depictions of the prophet, even favorable ones, as blasphemous.

"In response to our protest, Facebook has tendered their apology and informed us that all the sacrilegious material has been removed from the URL," said Najibullah Malik, secretary of Pakistan's information technology ministry, referring to the technical term for a Web page.

Facebook assured the Pakistani government that "nothing of this sort will happen in the future," Malik said.

Officials from the website could not immediately be reached for comment. They said earlier the contents of the "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" page did not violate Facebook's terms.

The page encouraged users to post images of the prophet to protest threats made by a radical Muslim group against the creators of the American TV series "South Park" for depicting Muhammad in a bear suit during an episode earlier this year.

Pakistan blocked Facebook on May 19 following a ruling by one of the country's highest courts. The Lahore High Court reversed its ruling Monday because of Facebook's response, paving the way for the government to restore access, Malik said.

The government will continue to block some Web pages that contain "sacrilegious material," but Malik declined to specify which ones.

The Facebook controversy sparked a handful of protests across Pakistan, many by student members of radical Islamic groups. Some of the protesters carried signs advocating holy war against the website for allowing the page.

Bangladesh also decided to block Facebook on Sunday but said it would restore access to the site if the offensive material was removed.

It is not the first time that images of the prophet have sparked anger. Pakistan and other Muslim countries saw large and sometimes violent protests in 2006 when a Danish newspaper published cartoons of Muhammad, and again in 2008 when they were reprinted. Later the same year, a suspected al-Qaida suicide bomber attacked the Danish Embassy in Islamabad, killing six people.

Anger over the Facebook controversy also prompted the Pakistani government to block access to YouTube briefly, saying there was growing sacrilegious content on the video sharing website. The government restored access to YouTube last week but said it would continue to block videos offensive to Muslims that are posted on the site.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/31/facebook-censors-everybod_n_595225.html

 

[ohio]

Facebook says political correctness more important than the first amendment

Not that I agree with their actions, but Facebook doesn't "enforce" the first amendment. Any private entity can choose what speech to publish or not. Every site on the internet except 4chan has a terms of service and removes content that doesn't fit with their intent. Facebook is trying to create a community of people that interact in ways that strengthen social bonds. It is not unreasonable for them to decide one group of users purposefully offending another group of users isn't in the site's best interest.

I think they're a huge bunch of pussies, and their actions are pushing valuable content and traffic to other sites, but I also think Zuckerberg is a giant douche and his business/organization is a reflection of him. It's their business and they can do what they want.

 

[Straya]

Fair chunk of the rest of the world doesn't have a first amendment (or equivalent) either.

 

[$tinkle]

Facebook is trying to create a community of people that interact in ways that strengthen their bottom line

fixied

i don't think they care one whit about community as anything more than a means to their end.

and *that's* what [economic] freedom is all about.

 

[Pesqueeb]

Not that I agree with their actions, but Facebook doesn't "enforce" the first amendment. Any private entity can choose what speech to publish or not. Every site on the internet except 4chan has a terms of service and removes content that doesn't fit with their intent. Facebook is trying to create a community of people that interact in ways that strengthen social bonds. It is not unreasonable for them to decide one group of users purposefully offending another group of users isn't in the site's best interest.

I think they're a huge bunch of pussies, and their actions are pushing valuable content and traffic to other sites, but I also think Zuckerberg is a giant douche and his business/organization is a reflection of him. It's their business and they can do what they want.

While I understand this, and agree almost completely that Zuckerberg is a patsy, this is kind of the same argument Rand Paul was using saying private business has the right to refuse service to African Americans. Just because that might technically be correct, doesn't make it any less morally ambiguous. If facebook wants to go all gestapo on peoples opinions perhaps it should be open by invite only and not publicly viewable. Like golf clubs that keep out women and overly pigmented Americans®.

 

[jonKranked]

Not that I agree with their actions, but Facebook doesn't "enforce" the first amendment. Any private entity can choose what speech to publish or not. Every site on the internet except 4chan has a terms of service and removes content that doesn't fit with their intent. Facebook is trying to create a community of people that interact in ways that strengthen social bonds. It is not unreasonable for them to decide one group of users purposefully offending another group of users isn't in the site's best interest.

I think they're a huge bunch of pussies, and their actions are pushing valuable content and traffic to other sites, but I also think Zuckerberg is a giant douche and his business/organization is a reflection of him. It's their business and they can do what they want.

this is actually incorrect. 4chan does have terms of service / rule list (albeit rather brief) and will remove stuff that is illegal, like cp.