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Facebook Exposes Advertisers To Hate Speech

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-take-it-down dept.

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?"

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  1. That's one way to get 'er done. by Damocles+the+Elder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Step 1: Get Slashdot to report it.
    Step 2: ???
    Step 3: Profit!

  2. Re:Nice... by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There are over 6 billion people who aren't in that Facebook group for a reason. The few thousand that remain were the ones that were bluffing.

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  3. Re:Nice... by Eli+Gottlieb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You can't have more than the entire population of Earth not in the group. Someone is in it, therefore less than the whole population is not in it.

  4. Re:Nice... by QMalcolm · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    There are actually more than 6.5 billion people on earth now, so he is technically correct.

  5. Re:heh by meringuoid · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I wonder whether there's be any kind of publicity if the group was called "fuck communism"...

    Doubt it. Oh, by the way, got a light?

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