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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. "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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  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 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.

  4. 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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