Nicole CzarneckiPrivate, MD, United States
Jun 18, 2015
Had someone on Facebook reported the Charleston murderer's content—or at least been taken seriously by Facebook when he or she reported it—maybe the Charleston murderer could've been stopped by someone. "The profile picture on Dylann Storm Roof's Facebook page shows a young man staring with dead eyes into the camera while wearing a black jacket with flag patches of white-ruled Rhodesia and apartheid-era South Africa." There was a pattern of racism: "In addition to the Facebook picture, Roof was known to drive around with a Confederate flag on his license plate, which is not unusual in the South. A friend reportedly posted a picture on Facebook of Roof sitting on the hood of a black car with the plate that read, "Confederate States of America."" As I said as well, there was nobody to stop him: "The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group that tracks hate organizations and extremists, said it was not aware of Roof before the rampage. And some friends say they did not know him to be racist. One friend from White Knoll High School said Roof had black friends. The Daily Beast reported that many of his friends on Facebook are also black." One of his Black friends would not have reported his profile picture or racist photo of him on the car? Can Facebook do the right thing and start enforcing their own TOS? How many more potential and actual criminals will they let continue to slip under the radar?
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