The email addresses we sent it to are:
Facebook: press@fb.com
Their PR firm is Blue Rubicon and the contact there is ronan.joyce@bluerubicon.com.
Why don't you do the same?
Simply cut and paste the text and send to the addresses above.
Thank you for your support.
Dear Facebook
I am writing to you regarding the group Loyalists Against Democracy who until recently had a Facebook page at www.facebook.com/loyalistsagainstdemokracy until it was 'unpublished' by Facebook. Subsequently two replacement L.A.D. pages have also been 'unpublished' by Facebook.
Some background:
L.A.D. is a cross-community, non-political group set up to combat the growing tide of sectarianism in Northern Ireland through the use of satire. L.A.D. use a combination of: original material (songs, artwork and videos) and screenshots to hammer home the point that sectarianism is wrong. The screenshots are taken from various public Facebook pages and show other Facebook users making vile hate filled statements that promote sectarianism and in many cases incite violence. Those responsible for these posts have been responsible for an ongoing and often violent campaign of civil disobedience 'protesting' at the democratic decision to fly the union flag on designated days only, as is the case in the rest of the United Kingdom. They have also been openly hostile and violent in their opposition to the decisions of a legally constituted body known as the Parades Commission who legislate on contentious parades in Northern Ireland.
L.A.D. is put together by a small team drawn from across the political and religious spectrum in Northern Ireland and enjoys huge support from both communities. When www.facebook.com/loyalistsagainstdemokracy was closed the page had nearly 9000 followers. The blogpage http://loyalistsagainstdemocracy.blogspot.co.uk has received over a quarter of a million hits since launching in June. The L.A.D. Twitter feed @LADFLEG has 4,606 likers (amongst them many local politicians including the Deputy First Minister and the Leaders of NI21 and the Green Party).
L.A.D. has been removed by Facebook purely as a result of an orchestrated campaign by certain right-wing ultra sectarian so-called loyalist groups in Northern Ireland. Their method is simple.They spread a message via their personal and group pages to report posts on L.A.D. as 'harassment' when this is clearly and demonstrably not the case.In certain cases they complain about various hate filled sectarian posts which they themselves have written. as we understand it when Facebook receives the requisite number of reports the pages are automatically 'unpublished'. Those responsible are effectively spamming Facebook's reporting system - which we understand is contrary to facebook's community standards.
Attached are many example of the campaign at work and also some examples of the hate filled sectarian bile that is allowed on the facebook system while a satirical page aimed at promoting peace and reconciliation is punished.
Recently L.A.D. teamed up with the Northern Ireland Children to Lapland Trust, a local cross-community charity raising funds for terminally ill, long term ill and deserving children http://www.niclt.org/ . They have recorded a song and are in the process of shooting a video intended for the Christmas market. L.A.D had hoped to use Facebook to market the song with all funds raised going to the charity. Sadly this marketing option is now closed to L.A.D.
I would like to know what Facebook intends to do about this and would respectfully request that www.facebook.com/loyalistsagainstdemokracy is reinstated immediately.
The offending screenshots detailing mass reporting can be found here:
http://imgur.com/a/1CISZ
Please reply as a matter of urgency,
kind regards,
xxx
Just sent them an email for you telling them to get it the fuck back up or LAD will start a twitter account against the evil facebook.
ReplyDeleteUsed alot of curse words and other comments I have seen your members use on the page, taste of your own medicine ballroots.
ps, I'll let the other groups on fb know what they should be doing also, cheers for the heads up.
DeleteSent. Well done on the charity work folks. Some good will come of this sorry mess of the last year after all. Congrats
DeleteSent..
ReplyDeleteLol bye bye LAD..
ReplyDeleteLol bye bye LAD..
ReplyDeleteSent. Good Luck LADs
ReplyDeleteGood riddance to a shite facebook page and something trying to sound moderate but is tarring the whole Loyalist community.
ReplyDeleteAh now, they're doing a great job of tarring themselves. Willie Hamza, anybody?
DeleteHah, good one.
DeleteThe stuff you see on LAD is almost exclusively documenting the "Loyalist Community" in their quest to talk shite about taigs, as they so eloquently put. They want free reign to post sectarian, bitter, hate-filled comments and posts, some of which actively advocate genocide and ethnic cleansing, but when pages like LAD call them out, they report it into oblivion, believing themselves to be completely in the right.
You should concentrate on taming the morons ruining the image of Unionism/Loyalism rather than go after the people calling them out on their shit. While I do enjoy watching them make fools of themselves, I want to live my life in peace, I can do without hate-mongering Loyalists tarnishing the country I grew up in.
Dear facebook
ReplyDeleteI would like to thank you for unpublishing the Loyalists against Democracy page (LAD).. The page claims to represent both sides of the Protestant and Catholic divide..that is untrue, it singles out the Protestant people and continuously mock and raises tensions in an already volatile province, these people breed bigotry and encourage others to openly incite hatred, they also Photoshop screenshots in order to again stir trouble and increase tensions, the removal of this page is a great relief to many and Facebook are to be commended, we claim the victory so we do.
Wise up
DeleteThe content used on LAD was taken from various loyalists pages so Mark go figure who the real bigots are.
DeleteSo Mark, which examples would you highlight as inciting hatred? How can you hate and laugh at the same time?
DeleteAnd tell me this, could you give an example of being able to criticise the more unsavoury parts of Loyalism WITHOUT being labeled as a bigot or a shit stirrer?
Usually as soon as you voice an opinion along the lines of "maybe ye's shouldn't be drinking so much and wreckin' the place, just sayin' like" you get hysterical squeals of abuse.
BUT you NEVER get a loyalist explaining calmly, coldly and articulately WHY exactly those (anti-Protestant) actions are necessary to Loyalist culture.
Show us a place where we can voice these opinions without being set upon then you'll find there may be less need for pages like LAD.
Mark, when Gerry Kelly jumped on yon land rover did LAD not mock him? I'm pretty sure my Shinnerman picture was put up. It covers sectarian bigots from both sides so don't go feeling all put upon. I don't think a wee Facebook page raises tensions, I think the twats hitting the police with swords do that, ach Mark if only I could give you a hug cos you seem vulnerable and lost.
DeleteSuch and uneducated ass biscuit.... Christ Budda Allah ..... Learn for feck sake.... LAD detest all bigotry. Is it their fault the Loyalists produce more manure that the other side ?
DeleteKeep up the effort LAD's
I think you will find that "Protestants" are not the ones under scrutiny by the watchful eye of these satirists. Trying to pull an old "If you hate Israel you are anti-semite" trick me thinks.
DeleteThe page claims to not be sectarian, yet singles out Loyalists. It is CLEARLY sectarian and facebook know it. Which is why it got shut down.
ReplyDeleteIt highlights secterianism from the Loyalist community you absolute moron.
DeleteAnd does it do the same with sectarianism in the Republican community? I somehow don't think so. It highlights "loyalists" in the title. It is singling out Loyalists and saying Loyalists are against democracy which is utter rubbish
DeleteThe whole thing is masking in being "moderate" to be allowed to carry on with the blatant sectarian motives behind the page which is clear in the title of the group. Its the equivelent of saying Jews for killing Palestinians when not every Jew agrees with Israeli policy in Palestine.
The screenshots show that the page was taken down due to yet another loyalist false reporting campaign. It was taken down automatically on the basis of one of these flase reporting sprees before and was reinstated when that was proved to be the case.
DeleteIf republicans were carrying on the way loyalists are then they would be. And the name of the page was based on a loyalist banner at the beginning of the fleg protests which said "Democracy doesn't work".
Instead of whinging about how one sided it is, how about you set up your own satirical page mocking republican fuckwittery where ever you may find it? Is it because you don't actually have a sense of humour or proportionality?
It's a satirical page that was created following the removal of a flag which caused many in the Loyalist community to wreck the place. If you think they are saying loyalists are genuinely against democracy then you really are a moron.
DeleteA page gets shut down when a certain number of people make a compliant about it . If enough people were petty enough to do the same to all the various loyalists pages, they to would be removed.
DeleteThe irony is that the content used on LAD was taken from various loyalists pages so these idiots who reported it in effect reported themselves.
We Are The People Now, not youse.
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ReplyDeletewhat web address did you use
DeleteOh dear what can the matter be
ReplyDeletethe LAD page was flushed down the lavatory
It stired shit from Sunday to Saturday
And now we are happy its gone..
We are the people...so we are.. Nah nah nahnah nah!!
done that lad
ReplyDeleteWhy did the page only poke fun at one section of the community? When in reality both sides are just as bad, the comments and utter bitterness directed at the protestant community where serving no other purpose than to wind people up, you can't really claim it to be satirical if only one group think it funny.. Well "tee hee" all you like now.
ReplyDeleteActually Mark, we are tee hee-ing again now. Thank your Loyalist friends for making LAD even more popular than ever. ISNM!
ReplyDeleteSent there now, good luck folks!
ReplyDeleteemail sent. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteDone
ReplyDeleteEmail sent :-)
ReplyDeleteEmail sent....I know you're back but just in case :-)
ReplyDeleteEmail sent and Bingham also reported
ReplyDelete