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Facebook Shutters Ku Klux Klan Group: TOS WIN

Source: Mashable!

May 03, 2009

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Facebook’s Terms of Service is rarely the hero of our story: changes to the document in February created controversy as Facebook appeared to claim ownership of user content even after a user left the site. That same week, Facebook polled users and found that 56% wanted the old TOS back: Facebook complied. Still feeling the need for change, Facebook then conducted a democratic process to define new terms, and the old TOS was superseded by these rules, titled the “Statement of Rights & Responsibilities”.

The TOS found itself in the middle of other controversies, too, including complaints from breast feeding mothers that photos of breast feeding were being removed.

Let’s take a second, then, to congratulate the Facebook TOS on a rare win: the UK’s Telegraph reported n Friday that Facebook has shut down a group (or perhaps a fan page: the Telegraph uses the terms interchangeably) called the “Isle of Man KKK”:

The ‘Isle of Man KKK’ page urged members to cleanse the island of newcomers….Almost 100 youngsters had subscribed to ‘Keep the Isle of Man white and free f

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