Facebook asswipes
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- chossy0
lowimpakt, You'll never convince them, they'll never see sense.
People flatly refuse to act for the common good. They see this as an atrocity against their freedom of speech while quite extraordinarily loosing sight of the primary reason the police would like the facebook page to be deleted.
- yes. i'm as liberal as they come, but some people don't have common sense.sine
- detritus0
Corporatism vs. Established rule of lw that much of the world has looked up to for 200 years?
Pfft, I'm with the Americans on this one.
Whilst we're at it, there's plenty of wall-space in courts — plenty of space for sponsorhsip opportunities, right? I hear you Americans have televised court judgments, you guys could add loads of cash to the government coffers.
Oop.. sorry, you prefer to have corporations dictate law... hmm... just who would that sponsorship money go to then?
Hey! Facebook Investors!
Christ, this is win-win - we could even set up apps that could allow Facebook users to vote on who they think is guilty in a court - $1 a vote, loadsamoney.
Who needs judges and juries when we have Facebook?
*laughs all the way to bank*
- GeorgesII0
Am I the only one who read the article,
So they used facebook to help find the criminal, but now wants facebook to close the page.
so they're not actually fearing for a mistrial but fearing a vigilante could take upon himself to kill the main suspect before the end of the trial,
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-…
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"Though social media's been enormously helpful in this investigation, it's also been very, very difficult and we had cause to speak to Facebook over the weekend and ask them to take a particular site down," he said."Now, they've refused to do that.
"We've all got a social responsibility. Facebook is part of our community and I would have thought that it would have only been reasonable."
"We've got to remember that no matter how horrible this crime is, this gentleman has got to be afforded a fair trial.
"It's not for Facebook pages or anyone else to be taking justice into their own hands."
- CALLES0
what? they find out the guy wasnt single
- pig0
@chossy
Calm down mate. I'm not standing in any camp, don't lump me with baggage.
I genuinely don't understand the issue here. Forget the idiosyncratic Aus/free speech laws.
I'm saying these pages are as common as dust.
If material about his priors has been released that's surely illegal in it's own right, and should be prosecuted as such/removed from the page.
So - remove individual parts of the page that obviously break theft/privacy laws like this (ie. releasing sensitive documents).
But don't remove what is basically mob opinion. People who like/share these pages are morons, but they should be allowed to be morons regardless. How impressionable are the Australian public? Can one Facebook page seriously swing a trial?
Maybe they should only give Wifi connections to people who've had a full psychiatric evaluation.
- animatedgif0
"I think an organisation of this size that wants to operate with no national boundaries MUST have a dedicated unit to moderate this type of shit."
Why is it Facebooks responsibility to ensure the Australian legal system is unbiased?
- If they have operations here, then they need to obey the law...pretty simple really.BusterBoy
- omg0
I'm sure vaginal scrapings, semen stains, fingerprints, and past arrest convictions should already prove a man's innocence and show a little previous character.
However, to keep the 4 million people of Melbourne stupid, so that they can have 10 people make an unbiased decision is somewhat extreme.
I should point out that Melbourne may have jurisdiction in its country, but not the rest of the universal digital world. Censoring content would be a punishment to the entire world, when instead they could focus on building a proper justice system.