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Brainstormy

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Wed Nov 18, 2015, 11:10 AM Nov 2015

What's Behind Facebook's Censoring Of Atheists In India

"A few days ago a petition popped up on the website Change.org urging Mark Zuckerberg to “support freedom of expression in India” by unblocking an atheist Facebook group there with over 13,000 members.

Facebook, the petition said, had not given any reason for the blockade. One day users in India who tried to visit the site were simply hit with a message that the content was “unavailable.” This was not the first time a Facebook page for atheists had been censored in the secular state. In June, another atheist Facebook group was reportedly labeled “unsafe” and its members were unable to share its content.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/facebook-censorship-atheists-india_564975a3e4b045bf3defc4c1?cps=gravity_5020_-3059047122942945902

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