Not sure how I missed this petition earlier, but it has more than 200,000 signatures. Please sign and share!
http://www.change.org/petitions/demand-facebook-remove-pages-that-promote-sexual-violence?utm_campaign=friend_inviter_modal&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&utm_term=30310619
Friday, November 30, 2012
Judge Rejects Facebook ‘Sponsored Stories’ Lawsuit Settlement
"Sponsored stories basically turns the act of pressing the Facebook “Like” button into a potential commercial endorsement. If a Facebook user clicks the “Like’ button for a product or service with a Facebook page, that user’s profile picture and name may be automatically used in advertisements for that product or service that appear in the their friends’ Facebook pages. Facebook also reserves the right to show such ads on sites other than Facebook."
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/facebook-settlement-rejected/
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/facebook-settlement-rejected/
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Diaspora
Trying out other Social Networking sites today. This one seems really cool.
https://www.joindiaspora.com
https://www.joindiaspora.com
Response from Facebook this AM
Trista -- So sorry for the inconvenience, we have reactivated the Page, changed the title back to normal, and have also shielded the Page to prevent further mishaps.
The title of the Page caused a misunderstanding and we removed the Page as a precaution. Please accept our apologies and let me know if there's anything else I can do to help.
Thanks
Fred
On 11/29/12 10:06 AM, "Trista Hendren" wrote:
Dear Fred,
I am the woman who wrote the article about Facebook on Elephant Journal, which you kindly responded to.
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/11/does-facebook-hate-all-women-or-ju >st-feminists/
On Monday evening, I was logged out of Facebook with the following message from Facebook:
Your content has been temporarily suspended
Your content was removed from the site for violating Facebook's Statement
of Rights and Responsibilities section 3.7.
If you believe your content does not violate Facebook's policies because it is not intended literally but is instead meant only as humor, you can accept the name change below.
If you choose not to accept this name change, your content will not be restored.
Old title: Rapebook
New title: [Controversial Humor] Rapebook
If you are not familiar with the page many of us started collectively, it was intended as a counter-balance to the many sites on Facebook that PROMOTE RAPE AND ABUSE OF WOMEN. You can see the page at
http://www.facebook.com/stoprapebook.
If Facebook is not willing to make their site a safe place for women, you can at least give us the courtesy of allowing us a spot to convene and report pages and pictures that are highly offensive.
I DID NOT and DO NOT accept this "Controversial Humor " title. There is nothing funny about rape. There is nothing controversial about being >opposed to rape. If Facebook cannot understand that, then they do not
deserve the business of women anywhere.
Sincerely,
Trista Hendren
The title of the Page caused a misunderstanding and we removed the Page as a precaution. Please accept our apologies and let me know if there's anything else I can do to help.
Thanks
Fred
On 11/29/12 10:06 AM, "Trista Hendren" wrote:
Dear Fred,
I am the woman who wrote the article about Facebook on Elephant Journal, which you kindly responded to.
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/11/does-facebook-hate-all-women-or-ju >st-feminists/
On Monday evening, I was logged out of Facebook with the following message from Facebook:
Your content has been temporarily suspended
Your content was removed from the site for violating Facebook's Statement
of Rights and Responsibilities section 3.7.
If you believe your content does not violate Facebook's policies because it is not intended literally but is instead meant only as humor, you can accept the name change below.
If you choose not to accept this name change, your content will not be restored.
Old title: Rapebook
New title: [Controversial Humor] Rapebook
If you are not familiar with the page many of us started collectively, it was intended as a counter-balance to the many sites on Facebook that PROMOTE RAPE AND ABUSE OF WOMEN. You can see the page at
http://www.facebook.com/stoprapebook.
If Facebook is not willing to make their site a safe place for women, you can at least give us the courtesy of allowing us a spot to convene and report pages and pictures that are highly offensive.
I DID NOT and DO NOT accept this "Controversial Humor " title. There is nothing funny about rape. There is nothing controversial about being >opposed to rape. If Facebook cannot understand that, then they do not
deserve the business of women anywhere.
Sincerely,
Trista Hendren
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Why is Facebook Protecting Pro Rape Language and Abuse of Women?
Looks like this has been a widespread problem for at least a year....Here are some highlights, the entire article is great! (by Melissa Gira Grant)
"Despite a campaign that included 180,000 signatures, Facebook continues to post pro-rape pages, showing, yet again, that they care about users so long as they're profitable.
If it was not clear before, we must understand now that Facebook wasn't built for us — it was built for the profit of the very few. That Facebook is of value to the public as a communications platform is only important to Facebook insofar as it allows them to sell targeted advertising against our own speech. Its governing document, the Terms of Service , has been repeatedly applied unfairly and without accountability to its users, as its purpose is to legally protect Facebook from our conduct, not provide us with a free space, or even a safe space. Facebook needs to be only as minimally welcoming to us so as to ensure our return to use it again. And that we might use Facebook as a public square for activism? Not even in the business model.
It's not all doom and censorship on Facebook, of course. Digging into the profiles of users who had "liked" some of the rape-is-funny pages, feminist writer Amanda Marcotte created a little dossier on a few of them. As Facebook requires users to set up their profiles using a real name, you don't need a subpoena to click through and learn about these rape page fans' hometowns, employers, and even relationship statuses. Here, the terms of service on Facebook allow for quite a different experience of unmasking a sexist harasser than, say, tracking down the endless legion of anonymous troll commenters who leave little more than an IP address behind as a calling card. "
http://www.alternet.org/story/153406/why_is_facebook_protecting_pro_rape_language_and_abuse_of_women
"Despite a campaign that included 180,000 signatures, Facebook continues to post pro-rape pages, showing, yet again, that they care about users so long as they're profitable.
If it was not clear before, we must understand now that Facebook wasn't built for us — it was built for the profit of the very few. That Facebook is of value to the public as a communications platform is only important to Facebook insofar as it allows them to sell targeted advertising against our own speech. Its governing document, the Terms of Service , has been repeatedly applied unfairly and without accountability to its users, as its purpose is to legally protect Facebook from our conduct, not provide us with a free space, or even a safe space. Facebook needs to be only as minimally welcoming to us so as to ensure our return to use it again. And that we might use Facebook as a public square for activism? Not even in the business model.
It's not all doom and censorship on Facebook, of course. Digging into the profiles of users who had "liked" some of the rape-is-funny pages, feminist writer Amanda Marcotte created a little dossier on a few of them. As Facebook requires users to set up their profiles using a real name, you don't need a subpoena to click through and learn about these rape page fans' hometowns, employers, and even relationship statuses. Here, the terms of service on Facebook allow for quite a different experience of unmasking a sexist harasser than, say, tracking down the endless legion of anonymous troll commenters who leave little more than an IP address behind as a calling card. "
http://www.alternet.org/story/153406/why_is_facebook_protecting_pro_rape_language_and_abuse_of_women
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Trista's Facebook Acct Has been Suspended
If you are not familiar with the page many of us started, it was a counter to the many sites on Facebook that PROMOTE RAPE AND ABUSE OF WOMEN. You can see the page at www.facebook.com/stoprapebook
I have attached the picture and this is the message they sent me:
Your content has been temporarily suspended
Your content was removed from the site for violating Facebook's Statement
of Rights and Responsibilities section 3.7.
If you believe your content does not violate Facebook's policies because it is not intended literally but is instead meant only as humor, you can accept the name change below.
If you choose not to accept this name change, your content will not be restored.
Old title: Rapebook
New title: [Controversial Humor] Rapebook
My thinking at the moment is that I will not accept this "Controversial
Humor Title" even if it costs me my Facebook account.
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