Facebook Slow to Shut Down Group: Fuck Islam
September 2, 2007 4:19 PM Subscribe
Facebook Group Fuck Islam has been up and running since August 15th. How long does it take to filter out profanity let alone groups promoting intolerance? Despite the formation of the opposing group "petition: if "f**k Islam" is not shut down..we r quitting facebook", the initial group remains in place. Facebook prohibits profanity in profile names ... is this an example of slow enforcement of existing Website policies or is it simply a great argument for corporations to use object oriented coding practices and inheritance?
This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, we don't really need to use the front page to try and shame Facebook, and it doesn't seem like this post is good for anything else. -- cortex
A group is not a profile. I don't see why that rule would apply.
posted by smackfu at 4:27 PM on September 2, 2007
posted by smackfu at 4:27 PM on September 2, 2007
Type "fuck" in the search in Facebook. There's over 500 groups (facebook doesn't count above that.) The policy you linked to refers to profile names, but Fuck Islam isn't a profile. It's a group.
There's a lot of offensive Facebook groups. My guess is that Facebook doesn't take them down unless they're slanderous or attracting bad publicity to the site.
posted by ALongDecember at 4:28 PM on September 2, 2007
There's a lot of offensive Facebook groups. My guess is that Facebook doesn't take them down unless they're slanderous or attracting bad publicity to the site.
posted by ALongDecember at 4:28 PM on September 2, 2007
I put a screenshot up for those without Facebook accounts. Click on the thumbail to enlarge.
posted by commonmedia at 4:29 PM on September 2, 2007
posted by commonmedia at 4:29 PM on September 2, 2007
Here is the direct link since the screenshot link above isn't hot...
http://www.idealog.us/2007/09/facebook-kind-o.html
posted by commonmedia at 4:29 PM on September 2, 2007
http://www.idealog.us/2007/09/facebook-kind-o.html
posted by commonmedia at 4:29 PM on September 2, 2007
ALongDecember, I guess this is one step towards bad publicity... :)
posted by commonmedia at 4:30 PM on September 2, 2007
posted by commonmedia at 4:30 PM on September 2, 2007
Fuck Christianity.
Fuck Facebook.
FUCK ANYONE SAY ONE BAD WORLD ABOUT ISLAM
Fuck Christians...Jews...and all other religions that degrade Islam...
Fuck all these hate groups
FUCK ALL Y'ALL
Stay classy, Facebook.
your least favourite facebook hate group sucks.
posted by mek at 4:31 PM on September 2, 2007 [1 favorite]
Fuck Facebook.
FUCK ANYONE SAY ONE BAD WORLD ABOUT ISLAM
Fuck Christians...Jews...and all other religions that degrade Islam...
Fuck all these hate groups
FUCK ALL Y'ALL
Stay classy, Facebook.
your least favourite facebook hate group sucks.
posted by mek at 4:31 PM on September 2, 2007 [1 favorite]
Mek, it certainly is a bit more MySpacey than the image Facebook likes to project.
posted by commonmedia at 4:34 PM on September 2, 2007
posted by commonmedia at 4:34 PM on September 2, 2007
Facebook has inspired me to discover (and by proxy, reveal) new layers of pointlessness in my life. But it has certainly improved my ability to stalk people.
posted by hermitosis at 4:37 PM on September 2, 2007
posted by hermitosis at 4:37 PM on September 2, 2007
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