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Facebook Boots Grow Up Australia Group

By pete_gallagher

Citing a violation of its terms of use, social website Facebook has removed the group page of the pro R18+ organization Grow Up Australia.

A message from Facebook, while not specific, offered that 'groups that are hateful, threatening or obscene are not allowed.' Additionally, Facebook removes groups that 'attack an individual or group, or advertise a product or service.' The group had boasted around 37,000 members before its removal.

While a logical guess might theorize that members of the group had posted hateful comments about a certain South Australian Attorney General, Grow Up Australia wrote that it did not believe that any administrator-provided content had provoked the ban, and that it had also been 'vigilant' in moderating member content.

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on March 16, 2010 (boomark / email).