Islamabad - Facebook, once again, became a platform of users spreading hatred sentiments against Islam as numerous pages and pictures have been created and uploaded reportedly on the social networking site.
The management of the social networking site has dual standards for followers of different religions. Particularly, they don’t care about hatred speeches against Islam and Muslim and allow their subscribers to cross all limits of tolerance.
Facebook policy stated, “It does not tolerate hate speech. Targeting people based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or disease is a serious violation of our standards and has resulted in the permanent loss of users’ account.”
However, when it comes to different religions particularly for Judaism, they don’t believe in freedom of expression as if they mentioned in their policy “We strongly believe that Facebook users have the freedom to express their opinions, and we don’t typically take down content, groups or pages that speak out against countries, religions, political entities, or ideas.”
Earlier, the Lahore High Court had imposed a complete ban on Facebook over a competition of blasphemous caricatures on May 19, 2010. And the ban was lifted after the social-networking site apologised over the hatred content.
People reacted after the ban and said that the government should block the complete site, rather than the specific pages but some people said the government has to promote awareness about the issue instead of boycotting the entire site.
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