A plea for Mumsnetters help, for those that use Facebook would you pls consider joing a group set up to work towards removing groups like 'keep down's syndroem sufferers away from society'.

[Thomcat]

There has been a flurry of vile hate groups on Facebook with titles such as 'Down Syndrome - is there no end to these monster children' and Keep Down syndrome away from society etc. The people posting say vile things such as f*@$ing babies with Down syndrome, killing them, locking them up in cages and so on. Pathetic but also horrid, wrong and damaging.

There has been a group set up that are all working together to constantly report the groups, fake profiles, comments, events, pictures etc. Facebook are being very slow, too slow in reacting to the complaints.

The more people joining this group to work towards asking Facebook to remove hate groups and the posters and the comments etc the better.

Would you consider joining this group and if you can clicking on the link in the box on the left and reporting the latest vile group.

The petition group has so far shut down 7, or 8 of these hate groups. The more members and the more people reporting the more serious Facebook will have to take us and hopefully act faster in removing them.

If just one person sees these sites and believes some of the crap posted up....well... it's damaging to say the least. And people think it's ok to discuss killing, shooting, raping people with DS. These comments have the danger of becoming attitudes that people can take out in to the real world with them.

Anyway, thanks for reading and if you do join and you do report I for one would be so appreciative.

HERE'S THE LINK:

www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?v=feed&story_fbid=350398970867&gid=338052585867

Thank you

just takes me to my homepage,will keep trying

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I found it, but when I try to click on it, it takes me back to my homepage, and there doesn't seem to be a join button.

I am sorely tempted to contact the school that one of the members of the group belongs to. AIBU to do that? Just feel that it could be used to try and educate the whole school.

good idead lubyloo

very good idea Lubyloo,you should

I can't find it either, the link just takes me to my homepage. What is the name of the group?

Yes go for it Loob.

ps I hope you don't mind me calling you Loob, I have two friends in Pinewood, and both of them are Loobys, so to differ from each other I call one of them Loob. The other I don't know as well but she is still my friend, so I shorten the name of first one to Loob, as she is my special friend.

Loob.

need name of the group and then will join and invite a ll my friends to join x

How horrible. I will join.

But.... how nice to 'see' you TC!!! How are you and your gorgeous girls? We don't see enough of you round these parts!

I just got taken to my Facebook page too unfortunately.

That's odd whimsey.

If you'd like to maybe you could type this into Facebook search and the group will come up that way:

Petition to remove Group: KEEP DOWN SYNDROME SUFFERERS AWAY FROM SOCIETY

does not work, nothing coming up if you search for that

Sorry, I somehow missed you were all having problems and only saw whimsey's post. It works for me when I click on the link but the groups name is:

Petition to remove Group: KEEP DOWN SYNDROME SUFFERERS AWAY FROM SOCIETY

Then once on there go to the link they provide in the box on the left, don't join it but page down to the end of the vile groups page and press report.

Can't thank you all enough x

PS Buda 0 hey gorgeous, long time, lovely to 'see' you again too xxxxxxxxxx

Really Lulmaam, how odd

Try this link ????? Does that work?

it comes up like it's going to your page, then it reverts to the home page.. really odd !!

what is the exact name of your group?

can you send invitations out to people and we can join that way? I am a friend of Mars's, my initials are AY, you can send me friend's request and an invite to join?

ohhh how odd.
Will try and find you on mars's list but the exact name of group is:

Petition to remove Group: KEEP DOWN SYNDROME SUFFERERS AWAY FROM SOCIETY.

i've searched with that exact name and nothing!!!

ffs are these cunts for real? (And I use that phrase because I can't think of a worse one.) Have joined your petition TC - frankly, all the members should be banned from FB. Astonishing.

Maybe it would be best to ignore?

These things have a very short life span.

Milkymama - sadly it's been going on for ages. It's a problem Facebook need to address. Also very hard to ignore when your child has Down's syndrome and you know that these groups are springing up time after time.

Cant find it think its been closed down

Lulmama - I found you on Facebook and sent the link in a message to you.
Thanks for keeping on trying, it's so lovely of you xxxx

It's definitely still open and running, I can see it (but maybe that's because I am a member now?)

Try this link maybe, but you will need to be logged in first:

www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=338052585867