Is Facebook Violating Our Right to Free Expression?

04Jan09

A friend of mine had to go through such an irritating experience with the facebook administration; according to Ibrahim Mughrabi, facebook has deleted content on his personal profile related to the “Zionist attacks on Gaza”. He says he’s been contacted by the administration and warned that he’d be suspended from posting stuff on facebook if he continues to do so!

So much for free speech and equal rights for everyone in this world.

But nothing will stop us from telling the truth, not facebook nor any other news/social network.

You can read more about this here: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=48105826399&ref=nf

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14 Responses to “Is Facebook Violating Our Right to Free Expression?”


  1. Gravatar Icon 1 Hana Posted January 4th, 2009 - 7:36 am

    yes, they have been active in promoting the Israeli point of view by limiting the anti-colonialist point of view.

    one way to protect against a disabled account is to create bogus users. all you need is a new free email account to create a new facebook account and you have complete separation between your personal facebook and human rights campaigning facebook ID. i think it’s wiser to seperate. if they delete one, you have the others.

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 Anon Posted January 4th, 2009 - 10:12 am

    The administrators of Facebook are pro-Israeli and its members are Jewish. Same concept that has been going on in Gaza and West Bank for over 60 years now.

  3. Gravatar Icon 3 The Gaza Massacre Posted January 4th, 2009 - 1:28 pm

    Not very surprising knowing that the owner of facebook is Jewish and he wont like zionism related groups and notes, so much for free speech as you said!

  4. Gravatar Icon 4 Egyptian Leftist Posted January 4th, 2009 - 5:07 pm

    now changing our 1st name to Gaza
    we have to unite & go through the battle

  5. Gravatar Icon 5 ASD Posted January 9th, 2009 - 6:26 pm

    Stop saying Israel Say IsraHell , in you writing , chat , talk , conversations and artwork .

    we lunched this campaign , to show the world how illegal israhell is .

    Please write an Article , POST , make an Artwork about this new name of IsraHell .

    Please forward the message and say IsraHell .

  6. Gravatar Icon 6 Amina Posted January 9th, 2009 - 10:56 pm

    It just happened to me today. I have been posting videos on the conflict in Gaza, trying to raise awareness and share opinions with people from different view points. All has been done in a very academic/intellectual manner. One of my friends is pro-zionism and pro-war on gaza. he got into a heated debate with another friend of mine over a video I posted. I suspect he reported “abuse”.
    Freedom of expression my a**! Do we not even have the right to voice our opinion about what we think is wrong? or do we not have the right to disagree with mainstream media that always portrays the war as self-defense, Isreal as a victim…
    60 years of war and no one cares until it shows one day on TV, then everyone wants to shut us down for speaking the truth, for wanting peace and justice for the Palestinians.
    Zuckerman is Jewish and pro-Zionism. I’m not Jewish, neither am I Palestinian. I’m anti-Zionizm not anti-Jews. I’m anti the political ideology, not against a peoples or a race. What’s wrong with that?
    We should all unite and find a solution to this. The media is trying to mold us into puppets that gulp down everything they say…

  7. Gravatar Icon 7 In Posted January 27th, 2009 - 9:43 am

    I have already sent an email to some friends explaining that Zuckerberg has met with the israeli president och they have discussed how they can promote israel and zionism. The freedom of speech does not apply to facebook sadly since it is not governed by the authority. Facebook is a private company as you already know.

    The zionists might have forced Zuckerberg into this because they have raised this issue (groups that hate israel,anti zionist etc) with the goverment and by the look of it they have won the case of banning all groups that are related to this the war or anti-israeli.

    Im not surprised at all.

  8. Gravatar Icon 8 Martin Posted February 1st, 2009 - 5:49 pm

    In fact, the final solution never arrived, but the threat has overcome into the possibility of enforcing indentity and to build and abuse of the power of massive media, which is basically a jewish zionist social ring since it’s creation. The muslims are right in the sense they state that West World do not read very much, we listen. Here is the main roll of massive media shaping separate ideas in order to achieve one inconsistence but concrete ideology who justifies any death for saving the actual elite supremacy.

    You can stop your mind being shaped from this mainframes of malinformation

    Stop watching jewish hollywood movies.
    Stop buying israel manufactures and servicies.
    Stop watching TV news, use internet to get you informed.

    The power to change our world is larger than you can imagine.

    Peace

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