Facebook Fumbles by Terminating Pro-Israel User
Robert Spencer reports that Facebook has cut off Todd Snider’s account after his pro-Israel Facebook page was hacked and vandalized by “Lebanese Shee’a Hackers” who left threats against Facebook’s system admins on Snider’s ruined page.
Caving in to people like these is not a good idea. Unfortunately that’s exactly what Facebook has done. By cutting Snider off they’ve allowed the radicals to gain another victory. This may seem like a small thing, but a death by 10,000 cuts is still a death.
Spencer:
Facebook’s outrageous action is not only an assault on free speech and internet freedom and a breach of its own social networking protocols, but also appeasement of a group of hackers who have invaded Facebook’s space and who openly avow their support for the jihad terrorist group Hizballah.
We therefore urge all Facebook members who oppose Islamist terror and internet censorship to contact the site administrators through the Facebook contact form, and all others to join us in protesting against Facebook’s outrageous behavior by writing to abuse@facebook.com.
Not cool. We should all should tell Facebook honcho Mark Zuckerberg that his people screwed this one up.
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Why didn’t FB cut off the hackers’ accounts instead?
Pitiful.
They did screw this one up real good.
Amazingly enough, Facebook is still remaining silent about the issue, and still allows pro-terrorist groups to continue with their hate-filled sites unmolested.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=54861784593,
Join our group and support freedom of speech.
Don’t be surprised if it turns out to be a hoax and the guy did it himself.
Actually, “the guy” is my 14 year old cousin, and that claim could not be farther from the truth. Do some research on what that group stood for (peace, not hate), and then try to insinuate that he destroyed the group, with over 180,000 members, just to make it look like it was hacked by israel-haters. Believe me, they are not hard to find.
To Jacob; best of luck to you and your cousin in your ongoing endeavor to topple that trash that did that to his group.
I can’t seem to grasp the fact that FB just sits back and doesn’t lift a damn finger over this, and to send out mass produced admin propoganda instead of actually doing something about it, especially when dealing with an issue like that…beyond me all together. I’m sure if it was a homo bashing incident they would’ve been all over that like a fat kid on a cupcake….i just made my facebook account recently, and I can see it’ll get taken down just as quick as it went up…pathetic and spineless, not a website I want to be part of…
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