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Ayesha


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Facebook removes group looking to hire hitman for Bolivian president

Spanish-language group had 8,069 members and was called 'Global collection to hire a sharpshooter to liquidate Evo Morales'

Bolivian President, Evo Morales

Bolivian President, Evo Morales, waves during a meeting at the Government Palace in La Paz on August 10, 2008. Photograph: Rodrigo Buendia/Getty

The social-networking site Facebook has removed a group that advocated raising money so a gunman could be hired to "liquidate" Bolivia's leftist president, Evo Morales.

The Spanish-language group, created in August, had 8,069 members and was called "Global collection to hire a sharpshooter to liquidate Evo Morales". The group's first description line stated: "We need to get the money to inspire someone to do it."

Its 20-year-old Bolivian creator, Hony Pierola, denied any malice. He told the Associated Press he started the group "to laugh a little and wouldn't be so stupid as to do it with serious intentions".

However, many of the group's 497 postings were hateful, violating Facebook's terms of use, which ban threatening violence or expressing hatred.

One posting, dated 10 August, suggested Morales be "tortured and made to suffer, like he's doing indirectly to many Bolivian people". The vast majority of group members were under 30, based on the birthdates and photos they posted.

The first Indian president of South America's poorest country, Morales has been a divisive figure as he drives forward a socialist agenda. On Sunday, Bolivia's voters approved a new constitution seeking to empower the country's long-suppressed Indian majority.

The Bolivian presidential spokesman, Ivan Canelas, said the government was not aware of the removed Facebook group but said officials would look into it.

A Facebook spokeswoman, Jaime Schopflin, said Pierola's group clearly violated the company's terms of use, and that the site was removed within 90 minutes of AP's call.

She said she did not know whether anyone had previously alerted the 700-employee company to its existence.

Schopflin acknowledged the challenge of enforcing user terms amid sky-rocketing growth: Facebook's users have more than doubled over the past year to 150 million.

"These things, once they are reported, we remove them immediately," she said, adding that the accounts of repeat violators were disabled.

Pierola's account remained active yesterday.



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I don't think they should've removed the group from Facebook. Although they were talking about a violent idea, they didn't actually form a group and go kill the president or even try to. If people were actually grouping up and SERIOUSLY planning this, it would be okay to remove it. But because it was simply an opinion I think the group was okay at least until they tried to do something.

Do you think they should've deleted this group or not? Was it fair that they removed it just because they thought it was bad? was making a group like this actually inciting people to kill the president, or was it just voicing an opinion?


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good get rid of that anti-US leftist. haha honestly, its the internet and if there was any "imminent danger" then you perceive it as a threat. I mean its not like on the internet you didn't any see Kill Bush advocates evileye...its just voicing an opinion. Simply facebook are just wimps when it comes to government involvance.

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If that group is being deleted because it expresses violence, a lot of other groups are getting away with being violent. I don't mind facebook monitering groups that way as long as they are consistent. If they are deleting this group, they need to be sure that they are deleting all other groups that have similar "expressions."

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 I didn't think that hirings for hit men could happen on facebook lol. Though i do think it is just a stupid little club, it is not as if they were even going to ever hire a hitman im sure it is more of an anti club then anything. I'm sure you can find a lot of violent clubs on things such as facebook or myspace.

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Facebook can delete any group it wants, I'm sure it's in their terms of service you agree to before you can even have a page. They are hosting the site and you are a guest. Anything you post they find in violation of their policy, they reserve the right to remove it.

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That last post was by Jeremy Sturdivant. Didn't sign in sorry haha

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