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#2Yep looks like they did pull it. there are a couple of different groups/pages but the one they pulled has 100,000 "likes".
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#3Facebook has a track-record of pulling racially / religiously offensive pages. They got rid of some Italian Neo-Nazi's a few years back, and some anti-semetic stuff late last year.
Regardless of the stance on free speech, pictures of Mohammed are offensive to Muslims.
Given their previous policy, I don't think this is any surprise or should get any analysis beyond the attention paid to prior examples . . .
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#4Thus providing validation of the entire point: To ensure free speech still applies to unpopular or offensive commentary.
Facebook is enough of a utility / sticky service that banning free speech that is not clearly against TOS (and this is NOT a hate group!) is unethical.
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#5Facebook can decide what they do and do not allow to be posted on their website. You can post whatever you want on Facebook, but they have every right to take it down.
I can certainly see why they pulled this page.
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#6If even one person at Facebook was threatened with violence for not taking down the pages, I think that it would be irresponsible and dumb to not meet those demands given the track record of SOME parts of the Muslim religion. The fact is I would be offended if Facebook didn't do this and I was an employee of Facebook.
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#7I know they removed a few of the Holocaust Denial groups and let others remain based on the content being posted on the board.
If it amounts to hate speech it's a violation of their TOS and gets pulled, so I'm curious what was actually being posted in the discourse that warranted this.
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#8If even one person at Facebook was threatened with violence for not taking down the pages, I think that it would be irresponsible and dumb to not meet those demands given the track record of SOME parts of the Muslim religion. The fact is I would be offended if Facebook didn't do this and I was an employee of Facebook.
FYI, positions like yours are exactly why these groups get created.
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#10Facebook has a track-record of pulling racially / religiously offensive pages. They got rid of some Italian Neo-Nazi's a few years back, and some anti-semetic stuff late last year. Regardless of the stance on free speech, pictures of Mohammed are offensive to Muslims. Given their previous policy, I don't think this is any surprise or should get any analysis beyond the attention paid to prior examples . . .
Religious fundamentalism, Muslim, Christian, or other, doesn't just offend us who are not devotees of what we can reasonably consider an artifact of prehistoric human evolution, it restricts us through the tyranny of the majority, not to mention often effects violent actions against people who only use speech to ostensibly "offend".
Examples of religion causing meaningful offense: Talk to your local gay marriage activist.