Internet adverts for several companies have been taken off social networking website Facebook because it emerged they were being displayed off material relating to the British National party (BNP). Telecoms company Vodafone and bank First Direct were swiftly followed by fellow telecoms firm Virgin Media and motoring organisation AA after the four realised they were being promoted next to material on the far-right political party.
Facebook is unable to control where its adverts appear and some companies, like Orange, have criticised the move as a "knee-jerk reaction". But Vodafone said it had made the move to "avoid misunderstandings", adding that it did not support any particular political party.
A FirstDirect spokesperson said: "We have got to make sure that the places we advertise are consistent with our own values and identity."
A spokesperson for the BNP, which exists to "secure a future for the indigenous people" of Britain, insisted there was "nothing wrong" with his party.
"Unfortunately the media have created a bogeyman and really the fault lies with the media, who for some reason have vilified the BNP, and it has scared these people off," he said.
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August 03, 2007
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Two Facebook groups representing the crypto-racist [BNP] organisation have clocked up 150 and 31 members respectively. By comparison, the non-aligned group "A Chief Export of Chuck Norris Is Pain" has 12,550 members...
The BNP bust was made by marketing mag New Media Age. After extensive investigations, The Register can reveal that Vodafone rival Orange's adverts are running on the group "Aryan Satan Worshipers" [sic]. Sick.
http://www.theregister.com/2007/08/03/
vodaphone_facebook_bnp/
(you need to fix the link.)
The link works. Fuck the BNP and all who sail in her.
I think Facebook are American owned, and are obsessed about permitting hatespeech, as they fall over backwards to ensure free speech" to groups as extreme as the Ku Klux Klan!
The free speech laws are a joke in America, as leftwing and Islamic opponents of the war in Iraq, are silenced, but far right fascist groups are allowed to spread their hate with impunity. Like the Robert Cottage case in the UK, it's easy to agree that there's one law for one, and another law for another. So much for America's commitment to "universal justice" and being a "global policeman".
Anyway, going back to networking websites, Someone says Faceparty also has BNP groups. Is this indeed true, or have they been removed?
The sick-in-the-head lovers of dear, late Adolf, Skrewdriver are on YouTube, I have just noticed, which goes to show these American owned sites just don't give a shit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcAOvbtwh6k
Complain to YouTube to get this hateful piece of wank removed...
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