FB dark side, in the light

Facebook still thinks pedophiles are funny. So today Im going to show you and, more important, Facebooks advertisers some of the other nasty stuff the social-network giant allows to co-exist alongside your childrens profiles.

Readers of this column know that my gripe with Facebook started about two weeks ago when Mark Zuckerbergs company refused to shut down a page on its site titled Pedophiles are people too.

Instead, Facebook allowed the person who posted the page to insert the phrase Controversial Humour in front of the title.

The pedophile page was still up and running on the Facebook site yesterday.

Facebooks manager of public policy, a guy named Andrew Noyes (noyes@fb.com), said the pedophile page did not violate the companys policies.

In general, pages or groups devoted to jokes, even disgusting and distasteful ones do not violate our policies, he said in an e-mail to me.

So Facebook and Mr. Noyes think that pedophilia sex with children, for those of you who arent familiar with the sicker side of humanity is funny.

Heres what one reader had to say about that.

Dear Mr. Crudele: I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for your articles going after both FB and its willing advertisers for not paying attention to the sick Web page that is on the FB site.

I have a different take on this whole thing as I was sexually abused from the time I was 8 to 10 years old. Without boring you with all of the details, I will tell you that it was and still is the most horrific experience anyone can ever imagine.

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FB dark side, in the light