June 3, 2011 | Online

Facebook deletes anti-gay page

Facebook has removed a controversial page from its site. The New Anti-Gay Movement had been set up by a group of homophobes pushing their hatred of all things queer. After several complaints, Facebook took the page down.

The administrators of the group had created the site "for those of us against ALL gays, man and woman alike. Those of us who are tired of seeing them flaunt it like it is a badge of honor and acceptable. Spread it like wildfire.”

And they didn't care about people complaining that the site was unacceptable. “And go ahead and report this page all you want," they posted. "It attacks nobody directly and is in complete compliance with my rights as a citizen of [the] USA.”

Maybe the brains behind the page should have read Facebook’s Terms of Service a little more closely. The terms state: “You will not post content that: is hateful, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.”

They countered that “by definition this page does not in any way or form count as ‘hate speech’. While there is a very thin line, this is on the proper side of it. ... Our right to voice our feelings towards gays is no more in the wrong than your option to voice an opinion FOR it.”

You absolutely have every right to be a jackass, and we applaud you for embracing your right so completely. But now its time to grow up and do something productive with your lives.

Update; homophobic Facebook page deleted [PinkNews]