http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/22/2046491/facebook-violence-against-women-boycott/
A coalition of sexual violence prevention and women’s equality organizations are joining forces to pressure Facebook to take a stand against any messages that “trivialize or glorify” violence against women, which they say the company should recognize as gender-based hate speech. The activist groups — led by Women, Action & the Media, the Everyday Sexism Project, and author Soraya Chemaly — are asking Facebook to commit to removing this type of content from its platform. And until it does, they’re telling companies to pull their advertising from the site.
"we the people" are the number one reason we should amend, eradicate or just totally trash some of our rights that have been usurped continually through the centuries in order to appease what ever power is in charge, 1st and second are the most dangerous and inflammatory today there are others but noe that potentially have a more immediate affect on us.
those founding guys nobody knows what they had in mind, we do know all that created equal and freedom of speech is a bunch of bunk then and now.
what we need in the ranks of congress and senate are not old rich White guys who want to put a aspirin between women's legs for contraception, or the young Wite guys and token Blacks that just want you to have ....................... job, equal pay, relative pay, tax relief, safe food and water and air, we need the everyday guy who thinks in the creed of America "by and for the people", is a reality not a mind fart that never has come to fruition.
n an open letter to the organization, the groups point out that Facebook’s content moderators already police some images of women. In fact, images of mastectomies, breastfeeding mothers, and other non-sexualized depictions of women’s bodies are often removed from the site after being incorrectly labeled as pornographic. On the other hand, however, images and forums that make light of abusing and raping women are allowed to remain on the social media platform under the “humor” section of their content guidelines.“It appears that Facebook considers violence against women to be less offensive than non-violent images of women’s bodies, and that the only acceptable representation of women’s nudity are those in which women appear as sex objects or the victims of abuse,” the groups’ open letter reads. “Your common practice of allowing this content by appending a [humor] disclaimer to said content literally treats violence targeting women as a joke.”Facebook currently allows pages on its site called “Fly Kicking Sluts in the Uterus,” “Violently Raping Your Friend Just for Laughs,” “This is why Indian girls are raped,” and “Punching your girlfriend in the face cuz you’re Chris Brown.” The social media site also permits pictures of battered women who are bleeding, bruised, tied up, or drugged alongside captions like “This bitch didn’t know when to shut up.” Women, Action & the Media has collected several additional graphic examples here (trigger warning).
had enough of this right wing ideology in respect to women? they should be taken off the net but this is one of those thinks you have to pay and endure, a cost of your freedoms.
if ypou have the right to say what you want why have so many been killed or jailed for exercising that right were they the wrong Americans, did they not qualify for the big ride?
do we really have freedoms or are we under the impression we have them, go out and try and express one or two and if you don't get killed or jailed or just missing come back and tell us how you faired.
