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posted by cmn32480 on Monday December 14 2015, @03:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the dislike....maybe dept.

Facebook's offices in Hamburg, Germany have been attacked by a group of unknown assailants:

Vandals have damaged a building housing Facebook's offices in Hamburg, smashing glass, throwing paint and spraying "Facebook dislike" on a wall, police in the northern German city said on Sunday. The overnight attack on the social networking group was carried out by a group of 15-20 people wearing black clothes and hoods, police said in a statement. An investigation had been launched.

A Facebook spokesman said nobody was injured in the incident. He said he could not immediately comment on the possible motive for the act of vandalism.

The European head of Facebook is under investigation in Germany over the social network's alleged failure to remove racist hate speech. The investigation was announced last month as German politicians and celebrities voiced concern about the rise of anti-foreigner comments in German on Facebook and other social media as the country struggles to cope with a refugee influx. Martin Ott, Facebook's managing director for northern, central and eastern Europe based in Hamburg, may be held responsible for the social platform's failure to remove hate speech, a spokeswoman for the prosecution said last month.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @10:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @10:11AM (#276044)

    This was a serious question. The CEO of a large organisation is quoted as being pro islam. On the other side of the world a building owned by that organisation is defaced.

    Perhaps this is why the CEO of IBM does not go on record giving an opinion on a highly charged emotional topic.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @10:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @10:21AM (#276047)

    Some things are more important than profits.

    And even if you don't think zuckerberg has an altrustic bone in his body, 1.6 billion potential users is worth pissing off the substantially smaller number of racists who will lose their shit over someone standing up for anti-racism.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Monday December 14 2015, @11:37AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 14 2015, @11:37AM (#276068) Journal

    This was a serious question. The CEO of a large organisation is quoted as being pro islam. On the other side of the world a building owned by that organisation is defaced.

    Let's look at the question again:

    What did they think would happen?

    Well, what actually happened? An inconsequential amount of property damage from an attack that probably had nothing to do with his views on Islam. "Facebook dislike" doesn't sound like anti-Islam sentiment. In addition, we have this claim of responsibility [12newsnow.com]:

    Police spokesman Joerg Schroeder said the motive was not clear. On the leftist Internet page Linksunten, anonymous authors said they had attacked the building to protest against Facebook's overpowering presence online.

    Sounds like the whole thing about racism (not just you, also the linked article of this story) is a red herring.