Kelly Stewart
Staff Writer
According to The New York Times, Facebook has now decided to crack down on illegal posts to its website, or posts that violate its terms of service, with its “hate and harassment team”.
So far, Facebook has removed many posts, including a page organized by WikiLeaks supporters that was used to coordinate attacks on company sites. However, the company has faced criticism for being too slow to react, or not reacting at all to some types of abusive pages, including the decision not to remove pages that were critical of religion or posts bashing a girl that appeared in a music video, because appearing in that video made her a “public figure”.
This has put Facebook at the center of the debate over free speech on the internet. Some of its decisions to not take down certain pages have lead the site to be blocked for days by countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan.
