Does anyone here know how to get the attention of Facebook's management?
Do you recall the Pink Chaddi Campaign coordinated via Facebook? It
doesn't exist anymore.
Or, it does, but Facebook doesn't want you to access it. Here's a link
to the group. Try accessing it, you'll get redirected to the home page:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49641698651
Just a week ago, Mark Zuckerberg posted to the Facebook blog,
highlighting the campaign as a notable use of the platform:
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=72353897130
"""From the protests against the Colombian FARC, a 40-year old
terrorist organization, to fighting oppressive, fringe groups in
India, people use Facebook as a platform to build connections and
organize action."""
Three days later, Nisha Susan, the campaign's coordinator, found her
Facebook account suspended. She had already spent weeks talking to
Facebook support over the group formerly known as "The Consortium of
Pubgoing, Loose, and Forward Women", since mysteriously renamed to "A
good bong is a dead bong" along with assorted death and rape threats
turning up in its description. Today Facebook won't let you look at
the group either.
What the heck happened? It got hacked, plain and simple.
Facebook Support insists Nisha isn't keeping her account secure. I've
looked it over for her, as have others, who've examined her computer
thoroughly and even moved her to a Linux box. None of these measures
stopped the continuing defacement of the group. FB Support has
responded with requests to fill out forms describing what's going on,
followed by silence.
There is only one inescapable conclusion to this: Facebook is insecure
and they don't want to admit it.
There's been only one mainstream media mention of this, in the Hindu
yesterday: http://www.hindu.com/2009/04/14/stories/2009041459890400.htm
I doubt Facebook cares about what the Hindu says. How does one get
their attention?
--
Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://jace.seacrow.com/
