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Petition - Get Fascist BNP off Facebook!
Sign up to our petition to remove the Fascist BNP's pages and groups from the Facebook site. We welcome the moves by Vodafone and First Direct to remove their adverts from the site after they were placed on BNP group pages.
Fascism has no place on Facebook
We the undersigned call on Facebook to terminate immediately the accounts promoting the fascist British National Party (BNP). The BNP has stated its aims of an all-white Britain which would only be possible through violence and shutting down democracy. Its page includes a link to the BNP website which contains racist, Islamophobic, homophobic content and promotes the BNP’s opposition to mixed race relationships. BNP user groups on Facebook contain racist and inciteful images and statements against Black, Muslim and migrant communities.
The BNP’s views pose a direct threat and are offensive to many Facebook users and people in society. In areas that the BNP target with its hate propaganda, racist attacks increase. In the year that the BNP targeted Barking and Dagenham, spreading racist lies about the African community in the area, racist attacks increased by 30%. The BNP uses the internet to attempt to recruit for its fascist cause and to give legitimacy to its hatred.
The Facebook’s site explicitly states that a user’s account can be terminated if a user fails to adhere to its terms and conditions, which includes agreement not to upload, post, transmit, share or make otherwise available content that can be deemed “harmful, threatening…harassing…hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable”.
We welcome the decision of First Direct and Vodaphone to withdraw advertising from Facebook after their adverts were posted near BNP content. We call on other commercial companies to follow suit until Facebook take action on this matter.
We therefore call on Facebook to take immediate action by removing British National Party related groups from its site.
Or email unite@ucu.org.uk.
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