Comment Re:facebook is an american company (Score 1) 559
I can see some level headed justification here... Though it's historically known that Govt. services constantly get the process wrong and like to blame other parties without having a good hard look at themselves before doing so.
On one hand I see Facebook is just like any other communication service. I.E email. If I sent abusive emails to X person then the police went and placed criminal charges on the developers of Exim, that seems hardly fair. On the other hand with Facebook it's akin to an email box except that everyone whose' my friend can read what's in it (and THEN some!).
So the question is who holds the power in this kind of situation? me the account holder, Facebook itself, or local law enforcement?
I can switch off my account or delete posts on my wall at any time but that wont stop the bullying. I cannot prevent the posts within the communities established within Facebook (other walls and Facebook pages) which I can see is the same as say someone verbally abusing me on the street. I can go in my house (block the person) but it doesn't stop the person from ranting and raving out the front of my house, that is, until the police show up.
That's my justification for this and though I wouldn't like to see this issue escalate to criminal charges placed on Facebook. FaceBook is in fact preventing law enforcement to keep the peace in this situation by preventing them from doing their job.
How do we fix that? I'd say its a two sides of the coin issue myself and are we going to hire a Govt appointed 911 for Facebook over this?