Boycotting Facebook today

[Sahar]

Facebook is being boycotted by Muslims generally and Arabs specifically today for continuously removing the "Third Palestinian Intifada" page under the Israeli pressure.
God willing, I am sharing. But I am wondering why do we have to protest and the creator/the executive of the website will definitely be against our cause?
Why don't we create our own social networking website that can embrace our cause, our revolutions, our worries, etc? Why do we have to rely on Facebook and Twitter, etc? Especially that we have seen how such websites can be a good means of communication in our pursuit of change?

Why do we have to threaten to boycott Facebook every time they close an Islamic page or a page about the Palestinian cause and we can have our Islamic or Arabic website that serves the same purpose with more options that can suit these moments that we live?
Do we expect the administration to be fair towards us? I personally don't expect this.

 

[Revoltingest]

Zuckerberg is Jewish....partisan meddling perhaps?

 

[Sajdah]

Sahar, I know that the boycott begins today, but when will it end?

Surely we need our own social networking website, to make any boycott effective, there should be an alternative to that thing you are boycotting.....

 

[Sahar]

Sahar, I know that the boycott begins today, but when will it end?

I believe it's for today only, Sajdah.

Zuckerberg is Jewish....

Yes, he is. But even if he wasn't Jewish, I believe he would also respond to the pressure from Israel, it would not make a big difference, I think.

 

[Revoltingest]

Yes, he is. But even if he wasn't Jewish, I believe he would also respond to the pressure from Israel, it would not make a big difference, I think.

What coercive power over Facebook would Israel have?

 

[Sahar]

I wouldn't say "coercive power" but pressure.

ADL urges Facebook to remove 'Third Intifada' page
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has "reached out to Facebook" to remove a "cause" page entitled "Third Palestinian Intifada," saying the page constitutes "an appaling abuse of technology to promote terrorist violence." According to an official statement, the ADL's request has not been met.

...Last Wednesday Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein sent a letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg asking him to make sure that a page calling for a third Palestinian Intifada be shut down.

In a personal plea to the founder of Facebook, Edelstein wrote "I turn to you [Zuckerberg] with the request that you order the immediate removal of this Facebook page." "I am sure that you too hold fast to these values and would prefer that all of the pages on your site operate according to them," the letter continued.

The founders of the Facebook group claim that they got the idea for the page from the recent uprisings throughout the Middle East that led to the ousting of the Tunisian and Egyptian leaders and the fall of their regimes.

 

[Sajdah]

I believe it's for today only, Sajdah.

Cool, I thought it will be for a week or something.....You know I feel that I addicted it and want to enter right now to see what is happening

 

[Sahar]

Hahaha, yes!! The mouse goes to the Facebook icon subconsciously and then I remember!! LOL!!

 

[kutulu]

it is sad even in cyber space people are discriminated against :/

and what exactly is the "Third Palestinian Intifada" if you dont mind my asking?

 

[Sahar]

It was a call for mass demonstrations in Palestine and the Arab countries to support liberation of Palestine and condemn the Israeli occupation and murder of our brothers and sisters there. The call came after the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt.

 

[Revoltingest]

How does Facebook handle other attempts to stir up political protest?
Do they squelch them generally or selectively?

 

[fallingblood]

How does Facebook handle other attempts to stir up political protest?
Do they squelch them generally or selectively?

If they are violent, or potentially violent, they do squelch them. The one in question was deemed violent as there were many violent posts on the page. There were those who were calling for something far from a peaceful demonstration. That was the primary reason it was shut down.

 

[Father Heathen]

I don't condone any sort of cencorship. I don't use facebook anyway.

 

[kai]

MOD POST

Just a reminder this is the Islam DIR folks​

 

[Bismillah]

Hey remember how violent and racist the "Draw Muhammad" page was...

 

[TashaN]

Many of sites are afraid of slamming them with the terrorist card and facebook is one of them.

 

[SLAMH]

Sorry for being so dumb, but how boycotting facebook for one day would help !!!!!!!

 

[Starsoul]

Sorry for being so dumb, but how boycotting facebook for one day would help !!!!!!!

I agree, the boycott should be forever.

err not that it would really help, but yes if all of us weren't sitting at home glued to our screens, we'd be out there doing something.

 

[ZooGirl02]

You know, I can understand why some Muslims would want to boycott Facebook over this. I personally agree with the Muslims who are boycotting Facebook although I won't be joining in the boycott. Facebook should allow all groups on their site so long as these groups aren't promoting violence or terrorism or other illegal activities.