Tech News- Politics- World- Facebook deletes Hong Kong opposition group

Posted By admin On 7. February 2010 @ 10:35 In tech news, blog news, world news, Freedom News | No Comments

[1] Facebook Deletes Hong Kong Opposition Groups- Social Media Today

oday’s South China Morning Post reports how Hong Kong’s political opposition has faced repeated incidents of having their Facebook groups deleted.

Read the [2] article here (behind paywall), but key points are:

A Facebook group with 84,298 members formed to oppose the pro-establishment DAB was deleted
Kelvin Sit Tak-O, who runs a discussion group that opposes the pro-establishment party, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), said his group’s Facebook page was shut down without notice on Thursday. The group had 84,298 members and was aiming for 100,000.

[3] http://ow.ly/14Gnh

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URLs in this post:
[1] Facebook Deletes Hong Kong Opposition Groups: http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/172721
[2] article here (behind paywall): http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2c913216495213d5df646910cba0a0a0/?
vgnextoid=b0cbff5d40f96210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&vgnextfmt=teaser&ss=hong+kong&s=news
[3] http://ow.ly/14Gnh: http://ow.ly/14Gnh

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