On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 01:18, Kiran Jonnalagadda <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
Perhaps getting the attention of BoingBoing or any other big-league blog / "____ effect" sites would help. After all, the Pink Chaddi Campaign got much link love from BB (I think it was Rishab Ghosh who pointed it out to Cory Doctorow).
