Monday, November 9, 2009

Facebook Rape page?

I came across this article while on Facebook:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/6530584/Anger-after-Sydney-students-set-up-pro-rape-Facebook-group.html
Apparently a group had made a Pro=rape Facebook page that was called "Define Statutory" and was formed by a bunch of male students from St. Paul's College in Sydney. The group was just shut down last month and has been in operation since August. I find this appalling that that sort of content would even be allowed and what shocks me more is that people wouldn't report it. The article states that the page could be accessed off of any of the members profiles, so why wouldn't someone say something sooner?

I can't imagine that anyone with morals would see that page and not do something about it. It's an illegal and unethical act so why would Facebook not catch it or someone report it?

There are so many regulations for what you're allowed to post on Facebook and anything offensive isn't allowed I'm sure Facebook does some sort of monitoring for its users, so I'm shocked that it stayed operational for as long as it did.This looks really bad on both Facebook and St Paul's not to mention the young men who created the page.
This sort of publicity is going to cause public outrage meaning a tightening of regulations for Facebook users.

This shouldn't have happened, I hope they do something about this sort of incident.



1 comment:

BirdmanDodd said...

There are ALOT of messed up people in this world.
You would be surprised by the amount of groups on facebook that promoted hatred and other ideals.

Sad side of social networking