RINJ Foundation
Rape Is No Joke
Toronto October 14, 2011:
We seek the removal of
Facebook content that condones sexual violence.
Facebook should provide the option to report pages and comments condoning
sexual violence and remove such groups for being in breach of the user Terms
and Conditions (FB Section 3: Safety, point 7), which specify that no
hateful or threatening comments should be made.
We will use any lawful means to achieve our goal. We have failed with
the petition route to convince Facebook to provide a means for flagging and
deleting pro-rape content pages and now vigorously seek to
a) work from within Facebook
in a democratic process to amass enough Facebook user 'votes' to sway
Facebook's opinion on this type of content; and
b) make certain that Facebook
advertisers are pressured so significantly that they will withdraw all
advertising from pro-rape content pages on Facebook.
We feel that if we are able to succeed at a)
and b), Facebook will return to this issue with a different mindset.