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Australia to ban Facebook!! If 'racist' page not removed!!

Written By Unknown on Aug 9, 2012 | 1:04 PM


Australia is going to ban facebook if some of the racist page not removed from facebook. The page on change.org which attracted nearly 17,000 supporters and it was investigating still now for solution.Facebook should have shut down the site as soon as it was brought to its attention and urged more cooperation from the social network.

Australia is going to ban facebook if some of the racist page not removed from facebook. The page on change.org which attracted nearly 17,000 supporters and it was investigating still now for solution.Facebook should have shut down the site as soon as it was brought to its attention and urged more cooperation from the social network.

Stephen Conroy- Australian Communications Minister has strike out at Facebook over its failure to immediately take down a page that was orthodox Aboriginal people as hopeless petrol-sniffing drunks.

Conroy said that Facebook should have shut down the site as soon as it was brought to its attention and urged more cooperation from the social network. While the content could not be viewed after Monday.

He told to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation late Wednesday of the page "Controversial Humor Aboriginal Memes" that it’s totally inappropriate to all of us.
He also said that we don't live by American laws here in Australia, we live by Australian laws. Australian who is using the fact that Facebook is based in the US to get away from Australian laws.

According to Australian Media & Communications Authority, it said that an online petition against the page on change.org which attracted nearly 17,000 supporters and it was investigating still now for solution.

Conroy was in touch with Facebook & more broadly about inappropriate content. He also said, “We’ve had a lot of debate & discussion with Facebook authorities.” And they've now finally employed an employee here in Australia & we try to solve this issue with conversations with that employee.

Facebook could not be reached on Thursday but in an online statement to The Australian newspaper it said, "We don't have anything to share on this issue but if that changes, we'll let you know."

If Australia had any power to take this site down generated in Australia asked to Conroy & he said that they had tried before and got nowhere.

He also said, “In the past there's been a whole range of specific pages, not just on Facebook but on other sites where people have made complaints." 

Australian communication ministry gone to the courts & the courts has issued notices while the police have gone to enforce them over in the US.

According to Race Discrimination Commissioner Helen Szoke said if people felt offended by the page they could also complain to the Australian Human Rights Commission for this issue.

Szoke told to reporters, “In the last three years we have had an increasing number of complaints which related to cyber racism & I have had a look at the images and I do think they're quite insulting to Aboriginal people.”

Szoke also said, “There’s a tipping point between humor and even controversial humor and material that's just offensive and just insulting."
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