Facebook Yanks Presidential Assassination Poll

[Weyland]

http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.asp...yid=114389

The social networking site Facebook on Monday pulled a third-party application that allows users to create polls after a site member built a poll asking if President Obama should be killed.

The U.S. Secret Service, the agency assigned to protect the president, has launched an investigation, agency spokesman James Mackin said.

"As is usually the case, our vigilant users reported it to us first," Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt told CNN. "The USSS [Secret Service] sent us an e-mail late this morning PDT asking us to take it down. At that point, it had already been removed, and we let them know."

Schnitt said the application "was immediately suspended while the inappropriate content could be removed by the developer and until such time as the developer institutes better procedures to monitor their user-generated content."

Facebook allows third-party developers to create applications -- such as polls and quizzes -- which are then made available to Facebook users, who use the applications to create specific content. Users may choose to make their content available to the general population of Facebook or limit it only to their friends.

In this case, Schnitt said, the user made the poll asking whether Obama should be killed available to the general public.

The possible responses to the poll were "yes," "maybe," "if he cuts my health care" and "no."

Schnitt said the poll "appears to have been posted over the weekend."

[kevlar]

haha

would be good to see the results

now that could be the type of democracy i could get used to.

[mastermg]

What pisses me off is that they never did anything like this to Bush, they wouldn't dare. Now you have all the pieces of crap right-wing terrorists claiming Obama isn't taking the "terrorist" situation strongly.

[Easy Skanking]

Quote:"As is usually the case, our vigilant users reported it to us first,"

Little bitch snitches.

[joeblow]

Am I the only one to notice that all this Obama assassination stuff started as soon as the Zionists began to suspect that he might pull a JFK on them? :(

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Quote:while the inappropriate content could be removed by the developer and until such time as the developer institutes better procedures to monitor their user-generated content."

That's surprising

[Weyland]

Funny thing is awhile back FACEBOOK was exposed as having CIA connections or actually being a CIA run site. :D