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Vandals Deface Facebook's Hamburg Offices (google.com)
Reuters reports that 15 to 20 vandals dressed in black this weekend defaced Facebook's Hamburg offices, spray-painting "Facebook dislike" on a wall, and causing some minor property damage. From the story: "A Facebook spokesman said nobody was injured in the incident. He said he could not immediately comment on the possible motive for the act of vandalism.
The European head of Facebook is under investigation in Germany over the social network's alleged failure to remove racist hate speech.
The investigation was announced last month as German politicians and celebrities voiced concern about the rise of anti-foreigner comments in German on Facebook and other social media as the country struggles to cope with a refugee influx. (The Guardian has a nearly identical story, but a better photo.)
A Facebook spokesman said nobody was injured in the incident.
Any sane person sees where this kind of comment comes from. It's a unilateral attempt to escalate the severity of what actually happened. All they did was break some windows and throw some paint, let's not make this a case of "domestic terrorism" etc.
They say "said he could not immediately comment on the possible motive for the act of vandalism", but I'm getting clear signals that this group simply dislike Facebook. Quite possibly this rage comes from an inability to mark anything on the side, including the site as a whole, as being disliked.
.. or did it happen some time ago. Might go on a stroll during lunch hours to make sure.
>politicians and celebrities voiced concern about the rise of anti-foreigner comments in German on Facebook
And why can't people voice their concerns over their governments giving away their tax money to middle class "refugees"?
Was this related to the investigation? A negative critique of social media and/or Facebook in general? Or a burning plea from users for a dislike feature?
The whole point of Reuters is for others to copy and paste the stories.
So what if Germans are complaining about minority ethnic groups? What could possibly go wrong?
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They're always burning or smashing up something..........the next several years are going to be real entertaining.
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'Hate' is the only term you have for my right to exist, to my nation and my future. You can't imagine anything else but hate.
If you feel you cant 'exist' without persecuting or removing minorities from your community. Hate just about covers it.
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CLICKBAIT........ Fucking useless news.... \. is seriously pissing me off with shitty posts like these....
These f###s trusted a doorlock to protect their precious data
Farcebook for being a shit in general, racist people, or a country with a bug up its oh-so-righteous ass about expressing negative opinions/outlooks? All of the above? Everybody in the world?
So hard to decide.
Er, you have a right to exist, champ, and it's only "your" nation in the sense you fell out of a vagina in its jurisdiction - congratulations.
an angry bunch.
Sorry friend, the concept of an anchor baby isn't universal, it does not apply to several European countries. Lie on your asylum application, use fake/forged ID papers? Anchor baby isn't going to save you, you're out.
Facebook has an extensive AUP. I don't see why they should have any problem whatsoever taking down any account which violates it. I assume they don't because the people who maintain the accounts are careful to avoid overtly violating it.
'Hate' is the only term you have for my right to exist, to my nation and my future. You can't imagine anything else but hate.
I bet that sentence resonates strongly with sad angry losers who've failed at life and need somebody to blame other than themselves. Ironically it's not far removed from the kind of dribble that jihadist groups also use to recruit new members.
Anything that nudges people towards getting their noses out of facebook is laudable, not a crime.
20 people just to spray an exterior wall and break some glass, what happened to blitzkrieg?
They should have destroyed everything.
Much like the question for Yahoo. Why are we talking about nontech issues, for a tech company? Especially when the motive is very nontech.
I want to hear about ROBOT uprisings, not HUMAN uprisings on slashdot.
Vandals? Really? At least it wasn't the goths.
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Oh, you mean white people simply wanting to live around their own kind.
Which for some strange reason is no longer allowed?
Why?
Why aren't you calling for Africans to be prevented from simply living around their own kind? Or Indians? Or Chinese?
It's because they have nothing that any other race wants to TAKE from them, that's why.
"The denial of free speech is the first act of tyranny."
Why are the Left so terrified of open debate?
I thought the Vandals left Germania in the 5th century.
Having said that, I wish Facebook would stand for free speech in all spheres. Not just racist speech. If some misguided group decides to offend some religion by depicting their deities in bad light, or even merely depicting their deity itself is considered offensive, Facebook should defend that too, to be consistent.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
This is clearly an act of terrorism, which is a crime motivated by the desire to cause political change.
Charge them with terrorism and throw them in Gitmo indefinitely without representation or a trial!
Sincerely,
George W. Bush
FYI, Zuckerberg is a jewish last name, I am 99% sure he is jewish.
I think Facebook posts would totally work for that.
are stupid enough to believe in free speech.
Thats what makes it ironic.
This perpetual motion machine Lisa made is a joke, it just keeps getting faster and faster. - Homer
People have been forming societies on the basis of the geography in which their parents procreated for 1000s of years. Those geographies, despite being somewhat arbitrary, have also been associated with a particular cultural and "national" identity. The people within those boundaries have also typically taken up arms to defend themselves against others seeking to invade their territory.
Are you mocking the idea that someone who emerged from their mother's vagina in Italy identifies as "Italian" and might have the audacity to think that they have collective ownership of the nation called "Italy"?
He has, on several occasions, mentioned that he was raised Jewish. He seems to intentionally avoid divulging whether or not he still practices the religion though, or else I've just never seen evidence of it one way or the other.
What people don't seem to understand, or else they intentionally neglect, about him and Facebook is that he doesn't get paid per "Like" or per "Share"; he gets paid per hit just like any other advertiser. (This by the way is why he looks like an incompetent dill weed when it comes to cracking down on scams). Because "Save the whales" pays the same as "Neo-Nazis-R-Us" and just as well as "Check out this latest pyramid scam". If at the end of the day, 'Projected_Ad_Revenue' > 'Potential_Lawsuit' then the post stays. Or do you idiots honestly think it's just a coincidence that there is a certain level of favoritism toward the posts made in English?
So, they were hamburglars?
Like in South Africa?