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?"

Comments

hmm...

[doxology]

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...

Re:hmm...

[Anonymous Coward]

No, the ORIGINAL group name was "F**k Islam". If you go to the new group "Fuck Islam" there are posts asking why the old group was deleted. This makes it pretty obvious that "Fuck Islam" was NOT the original group, but the replacement group. People here aren't using ** to be "leet" or to avoid swearing, they were correctly quoting the article/group.

Re:What about digg?

[DigiShaman]

Further more, what about all the hate speech on Daily Kos?

Re:Nice...

[Safiire Arrowny]

All religions do not marginalize women.

Re:Nice...

[Cassius Corodes]

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.