Hate group on Facebook targets Cambridge ON woman

ETA: Nevermind, I saw your post on the site. Thanks. You're putting in a tonne of work on this! Good job!

[ 23 July 2007: Message edited by: Will S ]

quote: A lot of people believe they are anonymous online," Silva said. But this is far from the truth, he said. Facebook handed over the Internet protocol (IP) addresses of all the group's members.

These computer addresses are the equivalent of a street address. "We know where all 700 (plus) members live," Silva said.

What seems to have happened (because it happened while a bunch of us were online watching) was that about an hour or two before the site was taken offline, one of the people who started it, Justin Bernard, left the group and was no longer a group admin. (We noticed that on the protest site.)

Then, about half an hour after Justin was no longer an admin, Cory Buckwell wrote a panicky post about how he was being called by police and media and had film crews at the door or something like that, and he deleted all the discussion topics in the entire group (but not the wall postings). He was totally freaked out.

Then, about half an hour after that, the group disappeared. And then later, Facebook confirmed that they took it down after the police were done gathering the information they needed from it.

quote:Originally posted by Wilf Day:
If I were on the story, my calls this morning would be to the high schools these students attend -- secondary principals are likely on call even in the summer, unlike elementary principals, or if not, the superintendents at the board office -- to see what they think of those students' comments, and what sort of anti-bullying programmes they are running (if any).

In my email exchanges yesterday will an elected official from the area, I suggested that sensitivity and anti-bullying seminars, be actioned by the community officials and the schools.

700 youths involved is a significant number and exhibits overt and latent hate that appears to be community entrenched.

quote:Originally posted by oldgoat:
I think that's a really good idea, both you guys. Schools have becaome a lot more sensitive about this sort of thing over the last couple of years. I'm sure if school was in session, a few unhappy students would have been called down to the office this morning. As school is out, letting the respective board offices know might be helpful.

yeah especially because in many childrens' profiles their network usually indicates a school, and that could be interpreted into meaning they represent the school