Slashdot Mirror
Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued For $1 Billion Over Intifada Page
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from ZDNet: "Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg for their role in furthering a 'radical' Facebook Page called 'Third Palestinian Intifada,' which openly advocated another uprising against the citizens of Israel. The complaint reserves the right to be amended into a class action suit and prays for compensatory and punitive damages in excess of $1 billion. ... As a quick refresher, Facebook originally said it would not remove the page but would monitor it instead. The company later pulled the page after discussions degraded into violence and hatred."
This will be tossed out instantly. #1: Where does the amount come from? #2: This random idiot can't sue on behalf of "society" or whatever the hell he's doing. The government, or possibly victims if any violence did occur, would have to do that. #3: I'd bet the farm that there's no proof. #4: Is not blocking hate speech a crime/tort? I don't think so.
Enough already, they are not even funny to begin with. Seriously, April Fools is overrated and the domain of the inferior intellect.
...except for people I disagree with.
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
-- H.L.Mencken
93rd rule of Slashdot: No matter how obvious my sarcasm is, my comment will be taken seriously by someone.
I personally think all religions are to blame.
Any freak that belongs to any of the worlds cults does nothing but damage spreading their fairy tales.
They care more about their ridiculous stories than the lives of real humans.
If the Israelis would stop committing crimes against humanity it might be a bit easier to take them seriously. But as it's presently war criminals against terrorists and the people they represent, it's really hard to grant either side any sort of moral authority.
That's pretty much my opinion. I've said it dozens of times in various places: There are no "Good Guys" in this conflict. Only the naive - amend that - only the naive who live protected lives in ivory castles - can believe otherwise.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
the murder of Sabra and Shatila was made Prime Minister. The siege of Gaza is ongoing collective punishment. Israeli forces committed what would be considered piracy if civilians had done it against a humanitarian aid convoy.
Citation needed? More like getting your head out of your ass needed.
Like the GP said, it's war criminals against terrorists.
war criminals := wealthy terrorist := poor war criminal
terrorist
I'm not convinced there's ever been any "Good Guys" in any conflict whatsoever. People love to point out World War II as an example, but even a cursory knowledge of history would show that many of the Allies' actions were worse even than those of most modern dictators and despots.
No problem is insoluble in all conceivable circumstances.
If Facebook is going to ban one side's speech, let's see them do the same for the others. And yet Facebook pages with such titles as "mavet laaravim" (Death to the Arabs) abound...
Statements like yours is big reason why this conflict is still raging. As long as the conspiracy theories, omission of facts, and outright lies continue to circulate the level of animosity will continue to grow. Until the Arab's stop threatening Israel's existence there will be no peace. The Arab's initiated this conflict in 48 and then got their asses handed to them in 67 and again in 73. It was in 48 when the Arabs repudiated the UN decision to create the state of Israel and then evacuated most of the Arab's in the expected area of conflict with promises they could come back in a few days after they finished killing all the Jews. Everyone knows how that turned out. The Arab's should have paid lip service to the UN decision at least long enough to work out some type of plan before rushing the war. I'll admit I don't know whether the UN resolution was a good decision or not but time has made that irrelevant today. The fact is the resolution was passed and Israel does exist and I seriously doubt the Israeli's are going to pack up and leave anytime soon. In 48 the world was still recovering from war and the horrors associated with war. The discovery of the death camps was fresh in every ones mind at that time and that generated a lot of sympathy for the Jews and I have to believe that sympathy made a big impact when it came to passing the resolution.
You mean, like, siding with those that fight the guys that won your home in an international raffle?
Hey, imagine it's 200 years from now and the native Americans suddenly get a UN resolution passed that kicks you out of your home because they kinda-sorta owned the place some 100 years ago and want it back. Will you side with Canada and Mexico in their battle to kick the Indians butt?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It's not a "getting even" issue. The land belonged to the Palestinians. The British pulled out being unable to come to a happy medium and lelf it up in the air until the newly formed UN created the state of Israel and assisted in expelling the Palestinians. I'm not on either of their sides, seeing as I would prefer a happy medium to be met, but the shit of it is, the western world kicked it off this go-round after WWII and it's understandable that the Palestinian's want their land back.
Statements like yours is big reason why this conflict is still raging. As long as the conspiracy theories, omission of facts, and outright lies continue to circulate the level of animosity will continue to grow. Until the Arab's stop threatening Israel's existence there will be no peace. The Arab's initiated this conflict in 48 and then got their asses handed to them in 67 and again in 73. It was in 48 when the Arabs repudiated the UN decision to create the state of Israel and then evacuated most of the Arab's in the expected area of conflict with promises they could come back in a few days after they finished killing all the Jews. Everyone knows how that turned out. The Arab's should have paid lip service to the UN decision at least long enough to work out some type of plan before rushing the war. I'll admit I don't know whether the UN resolution was a good decision or not but time has made that irrelevant today. The fact is the resolution was passed and Israel does exist and I seriously doubt the Israeli's are going to pack up and leave anytime soon. In 48 the world was still recovering from war and the horrors associated with war. The discovery of the death camps was fresh in every ones mind at that time and that generated a lot of sympathy for the Jews and I have to believe that sympathy made a big impact when it came to passing the resolution.
And if the UN stepped in and took half or more of your country away from you because a western country couldn't control the populace, you wouldn't be pissed off? I'd damn well expect my neighboring countries to step up and defend against an annexation.
You risk giving the impression that the Allies suggested Palestine, to which the Jews responded "Wow, we never even considered that as a location!!!" Other locations were considered, but given Jewish history it seemed almost inevitable that Palestine would be the location. I don't think that there was a lot of enthusiasm anyway for hosting this new home, but the lucky Palestinians got volunteered. The Torah accounts are pretty amusing. Not so much a case of being given land by God, more being told by God to go kick the shit out of those people so the Jews could take their their land. A bit me giving you a $10000 for your birthday, and then handing you a gun and mask, and pointing you in the direction of the nearest bank.
Yup, Palestine was a bad idea done badly.
-- Using the preview button since 2005
I don't particularly like a lot of things Israel does, nor do I particularly like a lot of things anyone in their general neighborhood does. Even so, the Palestinians got their land taken.
So?
This is "How the World Works 101". Damn near every country in the world has both taken land and had land taken from it. Every. Country. Why is Palestine so special? Because it happened in the last 100 years?
How come nobody's crying over Hawaii (psst, we straight up stole an entire country, albeit a small one.) The Russians pretty much stole a chunk of Georgia (South Ossetia). I don't see anyone crying over the fact that the Kingdom of Prussia isn't around anymore. And on and on and on it goes.
Random Thoughts From A Diseased Mind (Not For Dummies)