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| Subject: Censorious OZschwitz watchdog instrumental in removing funny racist Facebook page Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:09 pm | |
| The creators of a racist Aboriginal Memes Facebook page - described as a potential breach of Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act - have removed all of the controversial images
All of the page’s content was removed earlier today after repeated complaints to Facebook and after confirmation that the Australian Communications and Media Authority was investigating.
So as long as you have a pretense of being funny about it you can vilify Aboriginal people? Really?
Facebook has not deleted the page; it still exists with a classification of ‘‘controversial humour’’.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/contents-removed-from-racist-facebook--page-20120808-23tr1.html#ixzz23009aMwp
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