Sunday, February 01, 2015
Facebook to censor images of Prophet Mohammed in Turkey
Business is business, I guess
Facebook has reportedly agreed to censor cartoons of Prophet Mohammed just two weeks after its founder defended the right to free speech in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks.
The social network made the decision after Turkish authorities threatened to block the site entirely if it did not remove the images - some of which come from Charlie Hebdo magazine.
The dramatic about-face will be personally embarrassing for Zuckerberg, coming weeks after he defiantly said: '[Facebook] will never let one country or group dictate what people can share.'
'We follow the laws in each country, but we never let one country or group of people dictate what people can share across the world'.
According to the BBC, Facebook has now blocked pages 'that offended the Prophet Mohammed' after getting an order from a court in Ankara, Turkey's capital.
Facebook's founder was branded 'a first rate coward', a 'sorry excuse for a human', and 'a liberal coward' by users after news of the decision became public.
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It's so worrying that people, businesses and organizations can feel threatened not only by their own governments and movements in their own countries, but even by ones located abroad. Such are the pros and cons of globalization.
Everyone knows that lefties have no spine. They descended from jellyfish.
Come on anon 6:24 leftists are decended from something lower and softer then a jellyfish
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