Facebook to sue The Daily Mail

The Guardian newspaper here in the UK is today reporting of possible legal action by Facebook against the Daily Mail after the trashy rag claimed that “within seconds” of young girls setting up a profile, Internet paedophiles would be clambering to flash their collective peni at the unfortunate young lady who just wants to throw imaginary sheep at her friends or play on a fake farm for no reason other than it’s cool, apparently.

The Daily Mail have published an apology in today’s paper in order to try and stop facebook doing what is right and suing the cheap, nasty rag. To be fair, however, the Mail is getting used to apologising, they were recently made to apologise for letting some homophobic, obese, horror of a woman spew her Nazi-esque brand of filthy opinions about a pop star who had died, and that since he was gay it was somehow seedy and mysterious. 

Yes, the Daily Mail is about as tolerant of anyone who isn’t straight, white and conservative as I am of dispicable, badly written, elitest and trashy rags that masquerade as real newspapers.

Headlines such as “I posed as a 14 year old girl on Facebook, what followed will sicken you.” are designed for one thing, to make idiots believe that not only are all the paedophiles in the world on facebook and they have some special program on their computers that alerts them to every new 14 year old girl on the social networking site, but it’s your 14 year old in particular that they are after.  It is classic, and utterly detestable.

The reason for this headline (smear campaign) is the recent murder of a young lady (17) who met up with a stranger she connected with on Facebook, only for him to break that trust they had built up and murder her. I am not making light of someone dying I am simply pointing out that if you didn’t learn as a child that strangers could possibly pose some sort of threat, then you will never learn it. Blaming the Internet for a murder is as useful as blaming the company who produced the murder weapon.

Had the writer, Mark Williams-Thomas, done any form of research into sites such as Facebook and not just spent his day masquerading as a pre-pubescent girl with pigtails and whatever else the Daily Mail thinks is attractive to paedophiles then he would know that most of them have strict rules and programming in place to prevent someone under 18 being contacted by someone older. Am I wrong here? Yes it may seem like advertising yourself online is an easy way to get raped or killed, but you can’t get snatched and held captive as a sex slave, or murdered by sitting in front of your computer… I hope Facebook sues The Daily Mail, for this and all the other nonsense it prints on a daily basis such as bottled water makes you gay, or wind-farms are bad for reasons that really don’t matter, or reasons why David Cameron is the right man for the job. They have had it coming for a really long time.

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Posted by henryhunter on March 11, 2010. Filed under Henry Hunter Politics - World News,Opinion Editorial,WorldNewsVine. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.