baby jihadi on Facebook

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(h/t: Jay)

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aw!

Facebook’s Zuckerberg Sold 30 Million Shares Before IPO

MarketWatch
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has sold 30.2 million shares and director Peter Thiel has sold 16.8 million shares of the social-networking company, according to securities filings published late Tuesday.
The sales confirm plans detailed in a prospectus before Friday’s $16 billion IPO. Zuckerberg sold 30.2 million shares at a price of $37.58 for gross proceeds of $1.13 billion; Thiel sold 16.8 million shares for gross proceeds of $633 million. Facebook insiders had told prospective shareholders of their plans in an S-1 filing last week.

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facebook hypocritical? facebook double standards? nah!

Facebook shares sink as reality overtakes hype

(Reuters) – Facebook shares sank in the first day of trading without the full support of the company’s underwriters, leaving some investors down almost 25 percent from where they were Friday and driving others to switch back to more established stocks.Facebook’s debut was beset by problems, so much so that Nasdaq said on Monday it was changing its IPO procedures. That may comfort companies considering a listing, but does it little for Facebook, whose lead underwriter, Morgan Stanley, had to step in and defend the $38 offering price on the open market.
Even so, one source said Morgan Stanley’s own brokers were at one point “ranting and raving” about glitches that left unclear what trades had actually been executed.
Without a fresh round of defense, Facebook shares fell $3.79 to $34.34 in afternoon trading. That represented a decline of 10 percent from Friday’s close and 24 percent from Friday’s intra-day high of $45 a share.
“At the moment it’s not living up to the hype,” said Frank Lesh, a futures analyst and broker at FuturePath Trading LLC in Chicago, adding that some people may have decided to hang back and buy the stock on the decline.
“Look at the valuation on it. It might have said ‘buy’ to a few people, but boy it was awfully rich,” he said.
The drop in Facebook’s share price wiped some $10 billion off of the company’s market capitalization — it became a sufficiently interesting pop culture story that even gossip website TMZ did a brief item Monday morning.(MORE)

Buy facebook shares on Friday. It’s a no brainer

President Peres in the Lion’s Den

In the US, Holocaust denial is recognised as a form of hate.  Because incitement to hatred is protected under the First Amendment, Congress cannot pass laws to prevent it. Facebook, on the other hand can and does prohibit the use of their service to promote hate. As a private company it has that right. By refusing to accept that Holocaust denial is a form of hate, Facebook lends legitimacy to the deniers and strikes against a human rights consensus.Facebook, which bans pictures of breast feeding mothers, does not need to make the hurdles so high when it comes to the hatred of Jews.

…not to mention I’d like my facebook graffiti back from the facebook profiles that were deleted because facebook decided to censor my artwork when feminists complained about the nudity in my art. Yeah… I live by Vassar college.

Ask Facebook to remove following ‘Hate Israel’ page, which is a clear violation of FB ‘terms of service’

The demonization of Israel through the social media is a thriving industry. Both on Twitter and Facebook, there are no shortage of users who spend their days spreading hate and vitriol (often including implicit, and sometimes explicit, calls for violence against Israelis).

Here’s one Facebook page advancing the cause of anti-Zionism, and expressions of hate towards Israelis, which hasn’t come close to reaching its goal of 100 million supporters, but has still garnered nearly 30,000 “Likes”.


The page includes this video.

As if there was any doubt as to the goal of these “activists”, those commenting on the wall include NoIsrael# next to their name.

Here’s a subtle message conveyed by a subscriber to the page:

I reported the page to Facebook, as clearly violating their terms of service, particularly this passage:

You will not post content that: is hateful, threatening, or incites violence

So, far the page has still not been removed, so please consider reporting it, by going to the left hand side of the site, and clicking the “Report Page” link.
Finally, here’s a screen capture from one scene in the video above.

via cifwatch.com

Facebook threatens to sue Mark Zuckerberg

(smh.com.au) Israeli Rotem Guez caught Facebook’s ire by changing his name to Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Aviv Shiloh & Roy Tal

The new Zuckerberg, born Rotem Guez, legally changed his name December 7. Zuckerberg II’s website, MarkZuckerbergOfficial.com, states that he first filed a lawsuit against Facebook in January, after the social network refused to give him access to his profile, which it had shut down.
Zuckerberg (all further mentions refer to the Israeli entrepreneur) co-founded Like Store, a social marketing company, which sells companies Likes for their brand pages. The site states (translated), “Are you sad no one’s visiting your Facebook Page? We have a solution! Need 1,000 Likes? We’ll get them for you. Need 5,000 Likes? We’ll get them for you. Need 10,000 Likes? We’ll get them for you.”
In September, Facebook’s law firm Perkins Coie threatened to sue against Zuckerberg, claiming the Like Store violated the social network’s Terms of Service, by selling brands fans. The threat instructed Zuckerberg to shut his company and never return to the social network for any reason. (MORE)

The ridiculous part is that facebook will not let people profit off of a fan page. This guy rocks!

NY Judge: No Facebook “Fishing Expedition,” Denies Social Media Discovery Requests

(techlaw.justia.com)

Last week a New York trial judge denied a defense discovery request for a personal injury plaintiff’s current and historical Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter account information.
New York Justice George J. Silver of State Supreme Court in Manhattan reasoned that simply making conclusory allegations that a party’s “Facebook account is material and necessary to their [client's] defense” is insufficient to justify disclosure of a litigant’s private Facebook records. (MORE)

That is good to know. Let’s hope this type of finding is not overruled in states that are more liberal. Prosecution could move to a state where a person’s internet rights don’t exist in the same way.

Lawmakers call for trade commission to investigate Facebook

I suspected as much from all social networks and online sites.

(Hill) Reps. Joe Barton (R-Texas) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) on Wednesday called for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Facebook’s practice of tracking users even after they log out of its site. (IHatetheMedia) …Zuckerberg is a spying little weasel. Too bad someone doesn’t kick his weaselly ass. (Daily Mail) …when you sign up to Facebook it automatically puts files known as ‘cookies’ on your computer which monitor your browsing history. Some cookies remain on your computer after you log out, and report back when you visit a site connected to Facebook. This covers millions of websites and refers to anything with a Facebook ‘like’ or ‘recommend’ button on it. This covers millions of websites worldwide and refers to anything with a Facebook ‘like’ or ‘recommend’ button on it. Monitoring all: Facebook founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg The data that is sent back is the IP address, or unique identifier of your computer, and a log of what you have been viewing. Mr Cubrilovic wrote: ‘Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit. ‘The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate (web) browser for Facebook interactions. ‘This is not what ‘logout’ is supposed to mean’. The admission is the latest in a series of privacy blunders from Facebook, which has a record of only correcting such matters when they are brought to light by other people… (MORE PAIN)(Pretty Much Everything Related To You And Facebook Is Recorded In Your Facebook Permanent Record | Techdirt)Thanks to European data privacy rules, some folks have successfully requested and received a detailed list of all the data that Facebook has kept about them. They’ve released a redacted version of the document for one person, which comes in at a hefty 880 pages. To be honest, nothing in this is all that surprising, but it does highlight just how much data Facebook ends up with and that it appears to not delete very much, if anything, ever. The parts that seemed a bit questionable to me were things like recording every computer from which you’d ever logged in… as well as a list of all other Facebook people who have logged in from that same machine. I’m assuming they use this for security/anti-phishing, but it’s still a bit creepy to keep all that information. The other part that’s a bit strange is that Facebook keeps deleted messages. That’s a bit more troubling, since most people expect that when they delete things, they’re really deleted. Still, while a lot of people may make a big deal out of this, it still doesn’t seem particularly surprising or really bad. At best it’s just a reminder of how much info you’re giving out, and that Facebook is hanging onto… forever. Perhaps your “permanent record” is becoming a real thing. (MORE PAIN)

UPDATED #ReasonsToBeatYourGirlfriend? to see if you can legally get away with this hashtag on twitter or if I can get it trending again

After this post was made I received a warning and a penalty from facebook for friending “PEOPLE who I don’t KNOW”. Like most activists I network with like minded people and not PEOPLE I KNOW. Facebook doesn’t like it’s feathers ruffled. They are trying to remind me that they can act in a PUNITIVE manner. Typical Seattle politics. If you are wondering why I am using the deplorable hashtag, it is to remind the social networks of the hypocritical culture that they enable. I know for a fact that the people and law in Seattle will look the other way at Anti-Semitism, but will be upset by misogyny. My hope is that the worst lemmings of feminist culture will be shocked and click the link and be faced with their own double standard. …People on twitter are linking to some writing called Do These Vile Facebook Comments Deserve Free Speech Protection? A better question is why this is such a bloggable issue when it deals with Atheists, when no one cared at facebook when they did the same to Jews. If the context is clear in a threat then it really isn’t a first amendment issue, It is a question of should the state arrest people for making threats… well of course they should! Notice that facebook after being notified about these accounts over a year ago did nothing. In fact these comments were made during the period where facebook deleted the profile of David Appletree of the JIDF. Notice they didn’t do the same thing for Yerkzilla The DinoJew. But supposedly the JIDF profile was deleted because facebook claimed Appletree wasn’t a real name. So what is Bronagh Cleeverhook Gallagher up to these days? She is still on facebook like most of the names mentioned below…

#facebook censored Bagels page for this image? #JIDF

but the Third Intifada pages are OK?