Hate Groups Run Rampant on Facebook

[mandy]

Why is Facebook leaving its brand and reputation at risk to hate groups? I don’t get it. Since July 21, 2007, Facebook has left its “Fuck Islam” group intact despite more than 53,482 members joining an opposing group called petiton: if “f**k Islam” is not shut down..we r quitting facebook group.

While I’m not a total cynic, Facebook’s lack of overall responsiveness on the “Fuck Islam” group does make me wonder if there is a bit of opportunism going on. Does the company believe that no publicity is bad publicity?...

full article: http://jeff.newscloud.com/2007/09/03/fac...te-groups/

Two related articles :

Six major firms have withdrawn advertisements from the networking website Facebook, after they appeared on a British National Party page...

full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6929161.stm

Facebook is coming under renewed pressure to ban the British National Party from its site, with campaign groups and MPs claiming the content of BNP pages clearly breaches the site's terms and conditions.

More than 1,000 people have joined a new Facebook group demanding that the BNP is barred from the site. A separate offline petition initiated by the campaign group Unite Against Facism has collected 450 signatures including MPs Harry Cohen, Fiona Mactaggart, Stephen Pound and London MEP Claude Moraes...

full article: http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0...33,00.html

[rose]

Facebook should ban every hate group.