UPDATED: Facebook updates standards to allow death threats against alleged sexual offenders
Facebook updated its community standards to allow for users to call for “high-severity violence” against sexual offenders, including death threats.
In its ” Do not post” section on its website, Facebook changed its standards in a July update to allow an exception to its “Violence and Incitement” standard for individuals “described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.”
The exception allows users to make: “Threats that could lead to death” against alleged violent and sexual offenders. Facebook does not require for the threats to be against persons who have been convicted under criminal law.
UPDATED: IT LOOKS LIKE FACEBOOK JUST DELETED THE OFFENSIVE POLICY UNDOUBTEDLY SOMEONE ALERTED THEM WE ARE STILL ON TOP OF THIS
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This is the major part of the problem with SORNA rehabilitation—for lack of a better word: anyone can take advantage of a scenario that is open-game for Senators, police, lobbyist and people of power in general (to include dramatists like John Walsh). So the real stories (truths of burden) get circumvented by the population because it is so easy to use sex in any vocabulary to incite social triggers that “no one in their right mind” could disagree with.
I am hoping that FAC is going to use this as proof that the Registry is punishment in one of their lawsuits, That small print at the bottom of the flyers no longer matter to facebook The part that anyone uses this Information to harass etc….
Under Florida Statute 836.05, anyone who makes a verbal or written malicious threat that suggests an injury to the person, property or reputation of another will be guilty of a felony in the second degree.
Section 836.10 of the Florida statute speaks specifically to written death threats. If a person writes and sends, or is somehow involved in the transmission of, this sort of threat, they will be considered guilty of the crime. These threats can be sent via written letter or electronic communication, and the intent to kill or do bodily injury may be to the letter’s recipient or to a member of their family. In all of these scenarios, the act will be considered a felony in the second degree.