Karachi: Facebook has again become a platform of users having hatred sentiments against Islam as lot of pages and pictures have been created and spread reportedly on the social networking site.
Telecom recorder reports that the management of the social networking site has dual policy for followers of different religions. Particularly, they don’t care about hatred speech again Islam and Muslim and allow their subscribers to cross all limits of tolerance.
Facebook policy stated that “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 religion 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
The honorable court and the inter-ministerial committee of Ministry of Information and Technology and Telecommunication (MoITT) should also take this matter seriously.
Earlier, 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 apologized over the hatred content.
People reacted after the ban and said that government should blocking the complete site, rather than the specific pages but some people said the government have to promote awareness about the issue instead to boycott the whole site
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