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End Pro-Rape Facebook
| Time | 28 November at 00:00 - 5 December 2011 at 00:00 |
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| Location | Facebook |
| More info | Too many pages on Facebook advocate, support, trivialize or feed into rape culture. We know that normalizing rape and sexual abuse leads to higher and more frequent instances of these crimes. Facebook have defended pages such as "You know shes playing hard to get when your chasing her down an alleyway [sic]", claiming that implied - or even explicitly stated - abuse, violence or rape against women counts as freedom of speech, rather than hate speech, despite heavy criticism for charities, Facebook users and advertisers. Facebook's response: "Groups or pages that express an opinion on a state, institution, or set of beliefs - even if that opinion is outrageous or offensive to some - do not by themselves violate our policies." We want to send a loud and clear message to Facebook that their tolerance of rape/assault will not be ignored. On Monday November 28th, 2011, we are all deactivating our Facebook accounts for 1 week in public protest. We choose this date because this is when companies really start advertising for the Christmas/holiday season. We ask that along with deactivating your account for 1 week, you also boycott any and all companies and products that are advertised on Facebook until they stop tolerating the promotion of rape and sexual violence. Money talks and, by withdrawing funds, the companies will be putting added pressure on Facebook to stop tolerating the promotion of sexual violence. Help send a unified message to Facebook that sexual violence is not a state, an institution or a set of beliefs; it is a abhorrent crime that occurs daily to millions of people. Facebook, by defending violent humor, is defending abusers/rapists. Please pass this page on and invite everyone you know. Thank you. __________________________ The End Rapebook cause page: http://www.facebook.com/ __________________________ How to deactivate your account: http://www.facebook.com/ __________________________ ***Important notice: There was word going around that those who deactivate their accounts might lose their admin/creator statuses on pages they own. To those who are the creators of pages, don't deactivate your account. Instead maybe post a status and don't log onto facebook for a week. To those who are admins but not creators, perhaps you could talk within your groups and leave one person who will not deactivate (but rather just stay off facebook for that one week) who will reset the admins upon their return. We don't want anyone to lose their page/group, but we do want people to participate in this event. We hope this is a fair compromise. __________________________ Petition Links: http://www.gopetition.com/ http://www.change.org/ General Links: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/ Research Links: http:// http:// http:// http://psp.sagepub.com/ http://psr.sagepub.com/ http:// __________________________ |
