It's All About Me, Man: [ItsAllAboutMeMan] Fwd: 2 Facebook pages that shouldn't exist

Thursday, September 15, 2011

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Fwd: 2 Facebook pages that shouldn't exist

Well, Shel,

how about it, huh?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: matt love <mattlove1@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: 2 Facebook pages that shouldn't exist
To: "Shelby Knox, Change.org" <mail@change.org>

You know what bugs me? The support for violence on Facebook by those Obama fan groups. Millions of people fanning a man who has commited war crimes against women. And children. And, oh yeah, men.

Here's a group that's trying to do something to stop the violence (actual violence, not free speech, however deplorable you may find it):

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/13/vets-for-peace-votes-to-impeach-obama-for-war-crimes/

won't you join them and show you support women (and other people's) right to live without being bombed?

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Shelby Knox, Change.org <mail@change.org> wrote:

Tell Facebook to take down pages that promote violence against women.

Dear Matt,

Facebook says that hate speech and incitements to violence are banned and will be removed from their site. So why are they maintaining a page called "Riding Your Girlfriend Softly Cause You Don't Want to Wake Her Up"? And another page about "throwing bricks at sluts" that includes a photo gallery of portraits asking "Bang or Brick"?

There has even been an organized effort to use Facebook's own reporting system to flag these and other pages that encourage rape and violence against women so they'll be taken down. But Facebook hasn't done a thing.

Now, Change.org member John Raines is going straight to the top. He started a petition on Change.org telling Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to take down these pages and take a stronger stand against violence against women.

Will you sign John's petition to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg? Sign on, and tell Facebook to remove pages promoting rape and violence against women now.

When 1 in 3 American women will be sexually abused and/or assaulted in her lifetime, pages like these -- and the reactions they elicit -- are downright scary. Tens of thousands of people have "liked" these pages. Some people even use them as platforms to share rape fantasies and receive explicit tactics for how to carry them out.

John has seen the devastating impact of sexual violence and rape firsthand, on his own family. That's why he created this petition on Change.org to get Facebook to enforce its existing policies and to make it clear that content promoting rape and violence against women violates Facebook's Terms of Service and won't be tolerated.

Please sign John's petition. Tell Facebook to stop providing a platform to promote rape and violence against women.

Thanks for being a change-maker,

- Shelby and the Change.org team

P.S. The Troy Davis petition that we emailed you about earlier this week is being delivered to the Parole Board today with more than 230,000 signatures from Change.org members, in advance of Troy's final hearing on Monday. We'll keep you updated.

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