Facebook supports rape?

That must be it motherpanda.

Obviously facebook should be removing content like that. I'm not, for one moment, saying they are not at fault. I do think though that some of the titles on the petition website (and I'm sure some of the content will be worse) go beyond offensive and are probably criminal (both here and in the USA) and should be prosecuted.

I was surprised that the police are not taking action against UK based members of any groups/pages like this. I haven't looked at the facebook groups mentioned but if people are actually encouraging/inciting rape and violence I would think this could be prosecuted in the same way that people who posted encouragement to riot were prosecuted. I would think with something like facebook where most people use real names and photos it would be relatively easy to identify and locate them.

There is a petition linked on here on a thread.

I can't link on my phone but I think there is a thread in this section and in Feminist Activism

Remind me not to read below the line on Guardian articles. The article itself makes excellent points about the inconsistency of Facebook's policy/practice related to hate speech / incitement to violence.

But SO many commentators have cherry-picked phrases from this paragraph:

What Facebook and others who defend this pernicious hate speech don't seem to get is that rapists don't rape because they're somehow evil or perverted or in any way particularly different from than the average man in the street: rapists rape because they can. Rapists rape because they know the odds are stacked in their favour, because they know the chances are they'll get away with it.

Specifically, many have fixated on the phrase bout rapists not being particularly different from the average man in the street and that they rape because they can do it with little comeback. They're insisting this means, "the author believes all men are rapists, therefore I can reject everything else in the article."

How very convenient.