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News New Facebook drama
Posted By Cheris Hodges on Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:41 AM
CNN is reporting that some heavy hitters — Mark Cuban's brother, actually — want the social networking site to ban a group that calls the Holocaust a hoax.
Is it just me or does it seem that every week Facebook is hit with something crazy?
This group is deplorable, and people have a right to be angry, but the Internet attracts faceless freaks who say things such as this. I'm willing to bet that the founder of this Facebook group runs from tiny spiders.
The Holocaust Denial movement seeks to deny or minimize the Holocaust, in which Nazis killed about six million European Jews during World War II.Attorney Brian Cuban, brother of Dallas Mavericks team owner Mark Cuban, has been trying since last year to have the pages of groups with such names as "Holocaust: A Series of Lies," and "Holocaust is a Holohoax" removed from Facebook.
He pointed out that Facebook has removed groups based on complaints before and said the site is "setting the subjective standard on what they remove and what they don't."
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