Does Facebook support the advocating injuring or worse cyclists?

kottebulle

There is also this group:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7496964237&ref=share>which

"I would love to knock that cyclist off the road when im driving!"

Less members, but still promotes the wrong message.

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Bean Long

Did anyone check out the group Admins? One of them is a fan of "cycling"
according to their Facebook page. Work that one out??

cfsmtb

Yes, a one of the new admins I can easily work that one out. Read the groups description, the original creators (whoever they were?) didn't put themselves forward either as admins or owners, so a couple of us decided to be the new admins. Make sense now?

" ... Group closed because we need to think about road use that doesn't involve grievous bodily harm. As this group's name incited violence towards legal road users and the original group's creators were lacking a spine to actually have the guts to name themselves, we have closed this group.

Unfortunately Facebook rules are such that once a group is created its name cannot be changed or edited ..."

Travis

On Feb 22, 5:51 am, "Theo Bekkers" <tbekk...@bekkers.com.au> wrote:
> Andrew Priest wrote:
> > G'day
>
> > A thought. Does Facebook support the advocating of injuring or your
> > son or, daughter or brother or sister or mum or dad or partner? Well
> > it appears to do so, because it is allowing this group
> > <http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6125389234&ref=share>which
> > advocates the attacking of cyclists, i.e., road rage, to remain on
> > Facebook. If you don't like what Facebook is allowing let them know at
> >http://www.facebook.com/report.php?...34&h=1b28568e0c.
>
> Hmmm. It's asking me to login to both of those urls. I've never used
> facebook before and don't really want to register (I get enough junkmail
> now), so I can't see what it is you're complaining about. My thinking is
> that therefore it is not a 'public' domain and as I'm very strongly against
> cenorship of any kind, I'll decline to complain about something I can't see
> to be offended about.
>
> Theo

Everything at Facebook requires you to log in. I signed up ages ago,
I haven't done anything at all with it but my page is bustling with
activity anyway because of all my passing aquaintences leaving
Facebook messages, signing the guestbook etc etc. I can see why
Facebook is a good resource for identity theives, even without me
doing anything a surprisingly detailed database of my relationships
has assembled itself...


But the page was pretty horrendous stuff. It didn't appear to be a
joke, which is to say that there wasn't much laughing going on. One
comment, which is typical, was from a young lady that said she
habitually swerves toward cyclists just to give them a scare. The
other day she did that and the cyclist fell off his bike and hurt
himself. She felt a little bit bad over this, but still found it
uproarously funny and couldn't stop laughing as she drove away leaving
some random cyclist with unknown injuries alone at the side of the
road.

It goes beyond the standard aus.cars "get off the fkn road ya poofta"
type stuff into a much darker sadistic sociopathy. I don't see
anything good coming out of creating a forum where scumbags like that
can get together and entertain each other with stories of the latest
cyclist they scared and/or hurt.

At the bottom of the page is a "report this group" link, and when you
click on it you select your reason for reporting the group. One of
the reasons was "attacking a specific person or group" and another was
"violence". Both would qualify, on the face of it this group is
against Facebook's terms of service and should be banned on those
grounds alone, for the same reason that Facebook and YouTube and
similar sites take down any other hate speech material, especially the
kind where violent acts are encouraged.

Travis

Travis

On Feb 22, 12:10 pm, Bean Long <ben.l...@yourfinger.anu.edu.au> wrote:
> Did anyone check out the group Admins? One of them is a fan of "cycling"
> according to their Facebook page. Work that one out??

I don't think she was the one that created the original obnoxious
group. She only joined it recently and has taken over as the new
admin, her first action seems to have been to close the group down.

Travis

Theo Bekkers

Travis wrote:
> Theo Bekkers wrote:

>> Hmmm. It's asking me to login to both of those urls. I've never used
>> facebook before and don't really want to register (I get enough
>> junkmail now), so I can't see what it is you're complaining about.
>> My thinking is that therefore it is not a 'public' domain and as I'm
>> very strongly against cenorship of any kind, I'll decline to
>> complain about something I can't see to be offended about.

> Everything at Facebook requires you to log in. I signed up ages ago,
> I haven't done anything at all with it but my page is bustling with
> activity anyway because of all my passing aquaintences leaving
> Facebook messages, signing the guestbook etc etc. I can see why
> Facebook is a good resource for identity theives, even without me
> doing anything a surprisingly detailed database of my relationships
> has assembled itself...

Sounds like a goodd reason n ot to log in.

> But the page was pretty horrendous stuff. It didn't appear to be a
> joke, which is to say that there wasn't much laughing going on. One
> comment, which is typical, was from a young lady that said she
> habitually swerves toward cyclists just to give them a scare. The
> other day she did that and the cyclist fell off his bike and hurt
> himself. She felt a little bit bad over this, but still found it
> uproarously funny and couldn't stop laughing as she drove away leaving
> some random cyclist with unknown injuries alone at the side of the
> road.
>
> It goes beyond the standard aus.cars "get off the fkn road ya poofta"
> type stuff into a much darker sadistic sociopathy. I don't see
> anything good coming out of creating a forum where scumbags like that
> can get together and entertain each other with stories of the latest
> cyclist they scared and/or hurt.
>
> At the bottom of the page is a "report this group" link, and when you
> click on it you select your reason for reporting the group. One of
> the reasons was "attacking a specific person or group" and another was
> "violence". Both would qualify, on the face of it this group is
> against Facebook's terms of service and should be banned on those
> grounds alone, for the same reason that Facebook and YouTube and
> similar sites take down any other hate speech material, especially the
> kind where violent acts are encouraged.

Errm, how does it go? As much as I disagree with some people's stated
opinions, I will defend their right to state them.

Sure you can have rules about content and, if those rules are breached,
there will be consequences. I personally think you shouldn't be allowed to
post anywhere, or log on to anything, withoput using your real email
address.

Theo

Donga

On Feb 22, 11:49 am, lemmiwinks...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I'm basing it on the fact that one of them (my girlfriends dog
> technically) eats pretty much any shit it can get it's filthy little
> paws on. It's not that I shit in the yard and wait to see what
> happens, rather I figure if you'll eat dogshit, you'll eat
> anything ;-) On the plus side, it does mean there's probably only 1/2
> the dogshit in the yard that there'd be otherwise. She's a pretty
> good dog apart from that, I just make sure to never, ever, under any
> circumstances let her lick me (goes for any dog really).

My dog and youngest son had a good thing going when the lad was being
toilet-trained. He didn't like sitting on the toilet, so he'd get
naked and head out in the garden. The dog knew the game and followed,
tail wagging. Said lad would lay a turd while dog ate it up with
gusto. Never let a dog lick your face.

Andrew Priest

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:57:00 -0600, "kottebulle"
<kottebulle@fake.hotmail.com> wrote:

>There is also this group:
>
>http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7496964237&ref=share>which
>
>"I would love to knock that cyclist off the road when im driving!"

Reported.

Andrew
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