Nasrallah taken down
On Monday, Facebook, the social networking site, removed the friends page of Hezbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah. The battle against the fan page was waged by former internal security minister MK Avi Dichter (Kadima) and the Jewish Internet Defense Force, which fights anti-Semitism and terrorism on the Web.It's actually more than just a question of terrorists being a part of a social network: The terrorists use Facebook and other social networking pages for recruiting. That's why this is more than a symbolic victory.
Facebook has rules about pages that are hateful and promote terrorist behavior, so Dichter implored his Facebook supporters to report the fan page to site managers. The JIDF sent "action alerts" to nearly 100,000 people via Facebook, Twitter and e-mail.
"It doesn't make sense that terrorists like Nasrallah, bin Laden and others should get a page on a social network that you and I and the whole family uses for pleasure," Dichter told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
Online content like the pro-Nasrallah fan page is rather common, said JIDF founder David in an e-mail. He requested that his last name not be used to protect his privacy. When the JIDF comes across a site that promotes hatred, violence or terrorism, it tries to take action, David said.
Earlier this weekend, Facebook took down a fan page dedicated to Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas's prime minister in Gaza. Facebook, which did not issue an official statement regarding either of the fan page removals, could not be reached for comment.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:42 AM
2 Comments:
wonder why youtube doesnt have the same policy...allowing the most hateful rhetoric to remain on their site
It is an important one. The Internet's social networking tools shouldn't be used to glorify evil. Facebook has done the right think in taking down pro-terrorist social pages from the Web.
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