Tag: HATEGROUPS

The ability to create memorial pages on Facebook allows friends, family members, and well-wishers to remember and celebrate lost loved ones. Since it is the Internet, though, heartless and conscienceless people frequently utilize those pages to display their repulsiveness. Such dregs of humanity reportedly plagued the memorial pages for two recently deceased Australians. Tragically, the ...

Facing increasing bad publicity and pressure from members and Web denizens, Facebook yesterday confirmed the removal of two Holocaust denial groups from the social networking service. The groups -- "Based on the facts...there was no Holocaust" and "Holocaust is a Holohoax" -- were aimed at folks who for some inexplicable reason seem to think the Holocaust never happened. According to an e-mail ...

Ugh, the online thugs are at it again. Last week, YouTube executives have removed several videos that were made in tribute to the infamous Columbine school shootings of 1999 and the two boys who perpetrated them, the BBC reported. In a recent investigative report, the BBC found that a small but thriving Columbine-obsessed community, both in the United States and Britain, was responsible for ...