Blog #9 Facebook: Meaningless Policy Against Inflammatory, Hateful, Racially, Ethnically Objectionable Posts

From the blog titled “Progressive Muslima News” we have this article.

This blog is talking about another article that appears in the Star-Ledger, so I’ll have to read that first.  Link to that article.

Reading the intro, this story sounds somewhat familiar, but a reread is always a good idea.  I think the ad for singlemuslim.com is actually more interesting right now.

This article readdresses what the NYTimes article called out.  The atheist group that created the hateful anti-Islam group also has a group against Christianity and Judaism.  ”Obviously” the anti-Islam is the most offensive……..

So over 150 counter-groups have been created in reaction, and the author seemingly frames it as if these groups came out of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.  If this is true, it goes to show that material like this travels quickly!

“I just quit everything. I just got sick of it,” she said. “If Facebook is allowing these things, then I really don’t want to be a part.”

I usually take these threats in jest because Facebook is so addictive and has so many redeemable qualities that I think these people can’t be serious.  I guess I’m biased.

“The courts haven’t got into this yet,” said Frank Askin, who teaches constitutional law at Rutgers School of Law in Newark. “It’s like the Wild West. … I don’t think there are any rules.”

The free-for-all has led to bitter exchanges involving abusive or threatening language — often from those claiming they are offended by indecency of the original group.

Interesting words to describe these hateful groups – venom, anger, emotional, inflammatory, dicey.

“We just don’t know what we’re dealing with here.”

— So now lets see what this blog has to say —

The writer claims he does not join the groups that protest the original, anti-Islam group because he feels like it actually promotes the anti-Islam group’s popularity.  He also doesn’t want the title of that group affiliated with his profile, which other users could see in his news feed as well as his list of groups.

Not much else there…although it obviously highlights, just like my previous entry on the blogger who chose not to post the picture of Gilad Shalit, that some people choose not to perpetuate certain causes.

Article #8 Brawl Over Islam on Facebook

I’m back at it again.  Reading articles to make sense of my Fulbright research ideas.  This time, I’m reading an actual editorial-reviewed newspaper article courtesy of the NYTimes.  Link to Article

Basics

• Facebook dealing with speech codes
• Group denies Islam as a religion
• A bunch of outcries including the “we will stop using facebook” threat