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Facebook Exposes Advertisers To Hate Speech
NewsCloud writes "Does Facebook believe that no publicity is bad publicity? Why else would they leave a group called, "F**k Islam" open since July 21, 2007 despite more than 53,482 members joining an opposing group called petition: if "f**k Islam" is not shut down..we r quitting facebook group? Furthermore, advertisers such as Sprint, Verizon, T Mobile, Target, and Qwest wouldn't be too happy to learn that they are paying for ads on the 'F**k Islam' group pages. Shouldn't a startup like Facebook, reportedly worth more than a billion dollars and with over a hundred employees, be expected to enforce its own Terms of Use in less than six weeks?"
Clicking on the link to the group f**k Islam takes me to the Facebook homepage, but clicking on the other link works. The f**k islam group is also linked from the petition, but it too takes me to the Facebook home page. Looks to me that the group was removed...
sigfault. core dumped.
Further more, what about all the hate speech on Daily Kos?
Life is not for the lazy.
Hello Mr. Missing The Point.
The point is that the existence of this group is against Facebook's Terms of Service. Whether or not you agree with those Terms, you have to agree that it's stupid for Facebook to put them up, and then fail to enforce them-- even when vocally encouraged to enforce them by thousands of people.
Yes, you can hate whoever you want. However, if you're going to use Facebook's servers, you have to abide by Facebook's rules. The story here is that Facebook apparently doesn't see any need to enforce their own rules.
Comment of the year
All religions do not marginalize women.
Do you know how Christ is perceived by Christians? You know, the guy who said turn the other cheek, love thy enemies? Do you see the inconsistencies between wanting to be like Christ and butchering one's classmates? Isn't it more likely that Seung-Hui Cho is totally messed up and had a very un-Christian-like view of Christ?
Now, for muslims, Mohammad is their prophet who also claimed himself to be the example to be emulated by muslims for eternity. Allah said so though Muhammad. Check the Quran which muslims must believe to be the literal words of Allah. Now, according to muslims' own scriptures, Mohammad raided tribes, brokered truces when his group was weak and broke them when he gained power, massacred a tribe called Banu Quraysh, lined up men and boys who already grew pubic hair and beheaded them in a ditch, all 900 of them. He also tortured Kinana al-Rabi to find the treasure of his tribe, Banu Nadir, after a raid and he asked his follower to assassinate Asma bint Marwan for unflattering comments of Mohammad in her poem. Yes, it's the same jihadist Mohammad who married Aisha when she was just 6 (six) years old and consummated his marriage when she was 9 (nine) years old, and who ordered camel thieves to have their eyes branded with a hot needle and their hands chopped and then left them to bleed to death. These are not a kufr's inventions, but they are from hadiths.
This is a religion that promises 72 virgins for doing Allah's dirty work and promises talking trees and rocks during end of days to reveal Jews hiding behind them so that they can be slaughtered. So, excuse me for not seeing a flattering image when a muslim says he wants to emulate Mohammad. Feel free to call me Islamophobe too if that makes you feel P.C..
Correction - cooperation is not the best strategy for iterated prisoners dilemma but tit-for tat. i.e. start by cooperation - then do what your opponent did last turn; if he cooperated then cooperate, if he defected then defect. Which is what we do in society - we start by giving people the benefit of the doubt - then if they betray that they get punished. Another issue that humanity faces is what is called the hobbesian tragedy - if we have two decent groups of people that don't want to harm one another - but they cannot be sure of the others intention. If one strikes first then they get the advantage, therefore logically each has to attack in order to prevent the other for attacking. This can be prevented by having a mediating body which can enforce the peace, i.e. the police. This area of study is fascinating.
Control is an illusion, order our comforting lie. From chaos, through chaos, into chaos we fly