http://www.switched.com/2010/05/31/pakistan-and-bangladesh-bans-prompts-facebook-to-pull-everybody/ Switched Comments for Bans Prompt Facebook to Pull 'Everybody Draw Mohammed' Page http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2010/05/31/pakistan-and-bangladesh-bans-prompts-facebook-to-pull-everybody/http://www.switched.com/2010/05/31/pakistan-and-bangladesh-bans-prompts-facebook-to-pull-everybody/May 31st 2010 1:11PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/05/31/pakistan-and-bangladesh-bans-prompts-facebook-to-pull-everybody/http://www.switched.com/2010/05/31/pakistan-and-bangladesh-bans-prompts-facebook-to-pull-everybody/
and "we"? why use a word like "we". I'm a reader of Switched...great blog...but go ahead and say "we" should let China kill their babies, blind the minds of their people, "we" shouldn't be able to lampoon some stupid infidels in Pakistan etc. and I have a problem with your inclusion of the rest of us in the sick & demented world of your mind.

You say "People in other parts of the world, however, have decidedly different priorities." You are mistaken. This isn't people, this is government. Just because someone's born in China, do you think that they have different priorities and would rather live their life shut off from the rest of the world because their government wants them to be censored?

So far as the Facebook censorship goes, if the government wants to censor that particular group, or facebook altogether, that's theirs to do, but you can't censor the entire world because it offends the ignorant leadership of a couple of countries.

Even though this is obviously something small and ultimately pretty stupid, it speaks of the larger issue of human rights and how they are stepped on by ignorant people (especially Islam) and how those ignorant people are taking away our human rights as a whole.

Sorry that was so long...if you would have just reported on how facebook pussied out and capitulated, I probably would have had nothing to say, but you had to wax philosophical so here you go...]]>May 31st 2010 2:04PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/05/31/pakistan-and-bangladesh-bans-prompts-facebook-to-pull-everybody/http://www.switched.com/2010/05/31/pakistan-and-bangladesh-bans-prompts-facebook-to-pull-everybody/
The original site was taken down at least a week ago by the current admin because too many participants were using the site for hate-speech and not as a demonstration of free speech as was the original mission.

To their credit, Facebook did NOT cave in to pressure and in fact helped to restore the page(s) after a previous admin deleted the account/group as a response to death threats from extremists.

If you re-read the AP report you should note that they were unable to corroborate Najibullah Malik's (Secretary of Pakistan's Information Technology Ministry) claims that Facebook had provided any assurance that this would ever happen again or whether Facebook had any part in the removal of this page/group.

A quick visit to Facebook and a search for the sister pages of the original ("Everybody draw muhammed day May 20th (back up)" & "Everybody Draw Mohammad Day - May 20th, 2010") which sprung up when the original first disappeared, will show that they still exist and would indicate that Facebook is taking no such action to censor pages. This seems to indicate that Malik's comments are simply propaganda and reminiscent of Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf (Iraqi Information Minister.)

Keep up the great work Amar. This is a nice OpEd but falls a bit short if you intended it as factual reporting

Jay]]>May 31st 2010 2:49PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/05/31/pakistan-and-bangladesh-bans-prompts-facebook-to-pull-everybody/http://www.switched.com/2010/05/31/pakistan-and-bangladesh-bans-prompts-facebook-to-pull-everybody/May 31st 2010 3:00PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/05/31/pakistan-and-bangladesh-bans-prompts-facebook-to-pull-everybody/http://www.switched.com/2010/05/31/pakistan-and-bangladesh-bans-prompts-facebook-to-pull-everybody/May 31st 2010 3:04PM