Sunday July 26, 2009

I've Been Thinking:

Facebook broke one of its own long standing, ironclad rules and took down a page because of its content.

Facebook took down Ismail Haniyah's page.
Haniyah is the Hamas Prime Minister in charge of Gaza.
Haniyah's page had 10,000 members.

According to the report in the Arabic newspaper Al Hayat, members were given no reason for the page coming down, but assumed the page was taken down because of Israeli and US pressure. They assumed the same pressure will probably be applied to other Palestinian sites, especially to the Facebook page of Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal. Hamas is a terror organization.

Since it inception Facebook has maintained that they own the content and that they do not edit or stand in the way of anyone's First Amendment right to freely express themselves - even if the content is offensive.

Facebook and vehicles like Facebook spread information and galvanize ideas.
This change is dramatic.

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