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Demand For Facebook's Response To Cyber-Bullying On Their Pages
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      • Facebook CEO (Mark Zuckerberg)
      • Jacob Appel
      • Perez Hilton
      • Facebook VP of Global Communications, Marketing and Public Policy (Elliot Schrage)
      • Neil Giulano
      • Adam Bouska
      • Anti Violence Project (Robert Skylar)
      • Danielle Egnew
      • Cheryle Jacques
      • Cleve Jones
      • Rev. Troy D. Perry
      • Rainbow Law
      • Human Rights Campaign
      • Rachel Maddow
      • The Advocate
      • Gavin Newsom
      • National Gay & Lesbian Task Force
      • Grethe Cammermeyer
      • EndHomophobia.org
      • NBC Today
      • Sarah Schulmann
      • ABC (20/20)
      • Dan Savage
      • Mike Signorile
      • San Francisco Examiner
      • The Boston Globe
      • The Boston Herald
      • NY Daily News
      • Out Magazine
      • The Washington Blade (Lynne Browne)
      • Anti Violence Project
      • Richard Socarides
      • GLAAD
      • GLAAD (Andrew Bass)
      • Gay/Straight Alliance Network
      • Barney Frank
  2. Created By
    Kalli Amorphous
    New York, NY
About this Petition Petition Letter

Cyber-bullying on Facebook continues to an extreme degree. This petition seeks a response from Facebook regarding actions that they plan to take in order to prevent cyber-bullying and illegal activity on their pages. The undersigned also request a response from Facebook regarding why they have allowed activity for over a month which violated their terms of service on an event page titled: RIP: In memory of the recent suicides due to gay abuse, wear purple.

The most recent case of cyber-bullying and illegal activity on Facebook involved a memorial page for the young boys who lost their lives to suicide due to anti-gay bullying. The page quickly turned into a virtual grave desecration and platform condoning gay teen suicide and the murdering of homosexuals. Photos were posted of executed homosexuals, desecrated photos of the boys who died and supposed snuff photos of gays who have been murdered. Along with this were thousands of comments encouraging murder sprees against gays, encouragement of gay teen suicide, death threats etc. In addition, the page continually exhibited pornography to minors.

Facebook is known to promptly remove photos depicting artistic nudity, yet despite countless requests and abuse reports, they have allowed and continue to allow these pages to operate.

For a detailed report on this issue, please see this article by Tamara Holder: Inside Facebook's Dark And Violent Alleys

We believe that Facebook must be held accountable for cyber-bulling and illegal activity which occurs on their pages.

On October 13th, according to GLAAD, which contacted Facebook after receiving more than 1,800 letters via this petition, Facebook announced that new measures have been adopted to respond more quickly to hate speech and to monitor activity. However, graphic photos and hate speech continue. Again, we are asking that Facebook do more than pay lip-service to this growing problem.

Please take 10 seconds to sign the online petition below. Doing so will send an email to Facebook executives, media outlets, GLBT and human rights groups.

 



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Demand For Facebook's Response To Cyber-Bullying On Their Pages

To Whom It May Concern,

I am contacting you via a petition which seeks a response from Facebook regarding cyber-bullying and illegal activity on their pages. We are requesting a response from Facebook regarding why they allowed activity for over a month which violated their terms of service on an event page titled: RIP: In Memory Of The Recent Suicides Due To Gay Abuse, Wear Purple. Facebook has not yet responded as to why they allowed this activity for over a month, when they were aware of the page as the most "attended" event page on Facebook. In addition to this particular situation, we seek to address all cyber-bullying on Facebook; a situation which has been accelerating in recent months.

For an in-depth report on this issue, please see the following article by Tamara Holder: Inside Facebook's Dark And Violent Alleys: http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/09/inside-facebooks-dark-and-violent-alleys/

The most recent case of cyber-bullying and illegal activity on Facebook involved a memorial page for the young boys who lost their lives to suicide due to anti-gay bullying. The page quickly turned into a virtual grave desecration and platform condoning gay teen suicide and the murdering of homosexuals. Photos were posted of executed homosexuals, desecrated photos of the boys who died and supposed snuff photos of gays who have been murdered. Along with this were thousands of comments encouraging murder sprees against gays, encouragement of gay teen suicide, death threats etc. In addition, the page continually exhibited pornography to minors.

We believe that Facebook must be held accountable for cyber-bulling and illegal activity which occurs on their pages.

On October 13th, according to GLAAD, which contacted Facebook after receiving more than 1,800 letters via this petition, Facebook announced that new measures have been adopted to respond more quickly to hate speech and to monitor activity. However, graphic photos and hate speech continue. Again, we are asking that Facebook do more than pay lip-service to this growing problem.

We demand to know why Facebook is violating their own Terms Of Service. Facebook’s Terms of Service clearly state: "You will not post content that: is hateful, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence."

We believe that Facebook owes an apology to the families of the boys of the memorial page as well as the entire gay community for allowing the memorial page to be desecrated by anti-gay hate speech, encouragement of violence, the posting of violent images encouraging the murder of homosexuals and the non-stop posting of pornographic photographs on a page accessible by children.

I am signing this petition and sending this letter to invite you to respond to this issue.



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