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Brazilian Evangelicals Set Up a "Sin Free" Version of Facebook

Posted by samzenpus on from the keeping-it-clean dept.

An anonymous reader writes: With $16,000 and the help of the Mayor of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, the town he lives in, Atilla Barros and three other Evangelical Christians created Facegloria, a "sin-free" version of Facebook. Swearing is banned, along with about 600 other words, as well as any violent or erotic content, and depictions of homosexual activity. 100,000 users have signed up the first month. "In two years we hope to get to 10 million users in Brazil. In a month we have had 100,000 and in two we are expecting a big increase thanks to a mobile phone app," Barros says. Acir dos Santos, the mayor, adds: "Our network is global. We have bought the Faceglory domain in English and in all possible languages. We want to take on Facebook and Twitter here and everywhere."

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  1. Internet without evangelicals = Win by morcego · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh, I do hope they all move to facegloria, and leave us all alone.
    Better yet, they should make an internet of their own.

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    1. Re:Internet without evangelicals = Win by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Such is already happening with say Fox News, and all media for that matter. Before we only had a few media outlets available who served a kind of generic middle-of-the-road view because they had to cater to a wide audience. Now people can easily choose to see and hear only what they want, and the news media is niche-ifying.

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    2. Re:Internet without evangelicals = Win by morcego · · Score: 4, Insightful

      You know what they say: Small churches, big business.

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    3. Re:Internet without evangelicals = Win by dave420 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Only because they refuse to do business with people based purely on bigotry. Kind of like how racists were hounded out of business when they too refused to do business with certain people. Ignoring that part kind of makes you sound like a vicious old fucker living in the past. That couldn't possibly be the case, right? :)

    4. Re: Internet without evangelicals = Win by linuxrocks123 · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Not really. Excluding someone from a restaurant they go by every day because of that person's race is a significant inconvenience for that person, yet serving black people isn't against anyone's reasonable interpretation of religious commandments. On the other hand, a baker who refuses to make a cake especially for a gay marriage causes a once-in-a-lifetime minor inconvenience for two people, yet participating in a gay wedding ceremony is very much against many people's reasonable interpretation of religious commandments.

      Just because two situations look the same at first glance doesn't mean they are.

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    5. Re: Internet without evangelicals = Win by qe2e! · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I just had a friend lose a contract over the fact he worked with gay weddings. He actually made out like a bandit and got to keep a large deposit -- he donated it, posted his story of attempted persecution, and the story went viral and business is BOOMING. If you find a story of fundamental homosexuals beating up christian because he looked too square, I'd love to hear it.

    6. Re:Internet without evangelicals = Win by AmiMoJo · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The problem is that they tend to ignore the human rights of children in places like that. Cutting parts of their bodies off, refusing to give them a proper education, causing them mental illnesses with horrific stories and threats from X-rated books etc.

      Children have rights and are not property. Religious people can do what they like, as long as their children's rights are respected.

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    7. Re: Internet without evangelicals = Win by IMightB · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Ummm so what if they refuse service because their bigoted? I still occasionally, see stores with a "we reserve the right to refuse service for any reason". It's their right as a business owner.

      If someone doesn't want to take your money in an honest transaction, go to someplace that will. I'm kinda on board with the idea that the LBGT crowd is engaging in a witch hunt with their newfound ascendency.

  2. "On Facebook you see a lot of violence and porn" by Morpeth · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hmmmm, really? They must be on a different FB, mine is filled with friends on vacation, pics of their kids, and kittens... lot and lots of kittens.

    Sounds like they've been making a lot of effort into finding all this sinful porn and violence on FB...

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  3. Re:All possible languages? by Radak · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you want to be that nickpicky about something that was supposed to be a joke in the first place, I'll note that kasvotkunnia.com does not exist either (Faceglory's primary domain is a .com). And I'll also note that querying TLD registrar databases using the whois tool will return results for all domains that have been registered (i.e. bought), not just those that are, to use your word, "active".