Facebook being sued for $1 billion for not removing Intifada (uprising) page 'fast enough' - Polidicks

[IMG]http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20110402/capt.photo_1301702234310-1-0.jpg?x=400&y=266&q=85&sig=IlV2_LJFrxcKsW3qpReFWw--[/IMG] [I]Facebook and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, pictured here in 2010, have been hit with a lawsuit seeking more than $1 billion in damages over a page on the social network which called for a "Third Intifada" against Israel[/I] [URL]http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110401/ts_alt_afp/israelpalestiniansusitinternetjusticefacebook[/URL] [quote=AFP]WASHINGTON (AFP) – Facebook and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg have been hit with a lawsuit seeking more than $1 billion in damages over a page on the social network which called for a "Third Intifada" against Israel. Facebook this week shut down the "Third Intifada" page, which had almost 500,000 fans, but the lawsuit filed in a court here claims that the social network showed "negligence" by not quickly responding to appeals to remove the page. Besides awarding damages, the complaint calls on the court to bar Facebook "from allowing the Facebook page titled 'Third Palestinian Intifada,' and other related and similar sites, which advocate violence and death to Jews." The suit, a copy of which was obtained by technology blog TechCrunch, was filed in DC Superior Court by Larry Klayman, who describes himself in the complaint as "an American citizen of Jewish origin" who is "active in matters concerning the security of Israel and all people." Klayman also identifies himself as the founder of Freedom Watch, whose website describes it as a political advocacy group dedicated to protecting privacy, free speech and other rights and "[B]our national sovereignty against the incompetent, terrorist state-controlled United Nations[/B]." Facebook dismissed the case as "without merit" and said it would fight. "While we haven't been served with a complaint, we believe the case is without merit and we will fight it vigorously," a Facebook spokesman said. Facebook shut down the page on Tuesday, several days after Israeli Public Diplomacy Minister Yuli Edelstein sent a letter to Zuckerberg urging him to remove it. [B]Facebook said the page was initially tolerated because it "began as a call for peaceful protest"[/B] but direct calls for violence began appearing and the page was removed for violating Facebook's policies.[/quote]

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What.

Fuck yea fuckfaceshit. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Requested, I think" - Gurant))[/highlight]

God damn that's hard to read.

Uh, ok, that guy is dumb...

Pretty colors.

starpluck i think you're hurting the color tags

[QUOTE=Starpluck;28965627] [COLOR=#303030][/COLOR] [COLOR=#303030][/COLOR] [/quote] What were those two lines supposed to accomplish?

poor me, the Israelite

:wtc:

[QUOTE=PopLot;28965654]What were those two lines supposed to accomplish?[/QUOTE] Or maybe the color tags were there as part of a WYSIWG, copy-paste bug.

Great you fixed it and made us all look like idiots. :v: They might as well have included a Picture of Dr.Evil when they filed the lawsuit for $1,000,000,000. I don't think anyone will take it seriously.

I dislike both sides so I really don't know who to support. I will just hope that the judge will bash both defending and accusatory sides with his hammer.

Why? Why $1BN? Was something so horrifying performed to warrant such a high sum of money? Also what kind of "damages" were a result of the Facebook page being created? Also rating on above post was accidental.

Stupid lawsuit by stupid people. Will get nowhere. [editline]3rd April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Antdawg;28965848]Why. Why $1,000,000,000[/QUOTE] More than $1,000,000,000

Isn't it also a part of the people who MADE this group to start with? Why not sue them?

Good, I never liked that Zukerberg fellow anyways. Lacks classiness.

[QUOTE=doonbugie2;28965872]Good, I never liked that Zukerberg fellow anyways. Lacks classiness.[/QUOTE] Well he IS one of those "forever freshman" type of former college students.

Why sue Zuckerberg when he doesn't even have to do anything with the group? Also, the reaction time, they're not monitoring everything on Facebook 24/7.

Err... April fools?

[QUOTE=Komeight;28966046]Err... April fools?[/QUOTE] Wow, you are right, it's from 1st April. starpluck you fool

Fixed.

Why the fuck are they suing Facebook? They don't [B]have[/B] to remove anything.

Facebook had to remove a lot of anti semitic stuff, so much about free speech.

Tired of Israel.

inb4 one of the forever loyal Isreali's burst in and defend all of the countries actions.

Yes, it seems Israel is doing bullshit just because of their religion/politics.

Freedom of Speech? that's a call to kill innocents, how's that freedom of speech? what.

[QUOTE=Wizard of Ass;28966258]Facebook had to remove a lot of anti semitic stuff, so much about free speech.[/QUOTE] Most of them aren't even antisemitic, just when its anti-Israeli, TheJIDF begins to panic and sends an e-mail to thousands of its 'virtual troops' to all report the page, pressuring Facebook to remove it. If that fails, they usually just hack the group and dismantle it from the inside. They refer to this as "seizing control of the anti-Israeli group" which is an attempt to water it down. My friends group was hacked by them as well. Same applies with YouTube.