If you have a FB account...... (Page 2)

Haha... trishie, you don't get out much?  That's above average for america's youth. 

already done, chris ^^

Done, I was reading some the comments wow some people cant spell.  I mean I know its the internet but jez come on man.

Unreal...  Just had a series of letters to the editor of the local fishwrapper/newspaper about how inconsiderate cyclists are and how they're ruining the roads...  The letters would be funny if less than 50% of my friends/fellow riders here hadn't been hit by cars or golf carts.  

Done.

This may sound really stupid, but I'm not on facebook that much....how do I report the page??? Once I know how I will definitely do it and send a message to my FB friends to do so as well! I can't believe a page like that even exists!

 

There's a Report Page link down at the bottom

Done!  What idiots!

Done.

Reported. Sometimes people can be so stupid!

ok, fine, whatever, don't report it.  play devil's advocate all you like... meh.   it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out where to report it, or for what reason to report it.  figure it out yourself.

in other news, I reported it, reviewed, and posted to my team's FB page.

Edited by newleaf 2010-01-02 10:40 PM

Meh yourself.  Just curious as to what the big deal is.  They aren't exactly giving you instructions on how to run someone over.  Freedom of speech goes for the stuff we don't like as well you know.  Apparently that does take a rocket scientist to understand these days. 

Here, do a little reading on it sometime.  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freedom-speech/#MilHarPriHatSpe

I think it is absolutely sickening the comments made on that one picture where a car is plowing into a bunch of cyclists who were either killed or seriously injured. Never could have imagine that people would think it would be funny to see someone die or get seriously hurt. Just sad.

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Edited by Maui 2010-01-03 12:43 AM

Disapointing

Edited by cannastar 2010-01-03 2:24 AM

Yes, there is plenty of validity to what many of them are saying.  There are also many of them saying to run over cyclists too.  So, yes I do believe in controlling speech when that speech is treating to or telling others to do great bodily harm to others.

Same as this website, AFAIK Facebook is a private owned website and for that reason freedom of speech and bla bla bla is irrelevant otherwise they wouldn't have all those rules in their site regulating it to begin with. It seems to me that when people use that venue to promote violence against others members of the same site IMO is in their best interest to step in. Those people disliking cyclists and wanting to run them over to teach us a lesson are entitled to their opinion and dislike us as much as they want, hell many times it drives me nuts how some cyclists ride, same as how some drivers drive, how some people act etc but I think a line has to be drawn when you use your dislike to promote anger, violence and even target an specific group who frequent in this case the same site.

As I mentioned when I reported the page; as harmless as a FB page might be, some of the comments on that page are to be honest frightening and it only takes for one idiot to act on his dislike/frustration and do something very stupid based on the seemingly support of others. For that reason I think it is on FB interest to get rid of pages like that, again as a private website. Those wanting to promote their dislike for cyclists are free to start their own website, pay for the domain/server, gather traffic and hate away.

PS. I am no rocket scientist but I invite you to start a thread in this website attacking a group of BTers in similar fashion as some posters have done on that "fan" page and let me know how long it last...

If we took out cyclist and inserted African-American, Muslim, gay, would that be okay also?  Adovocating violence against any group of people is wrong IMO.

Done. No reason to be causing harm to others just because it's not a sport you do or understand.