Online Ethos Questioned After Facebook Poll ; Survey On Killing Obama Pulled
The Washington Times › September 30, 2009
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A Facebook poll asking whether President Obama should be assassinated has sparked an Internet uproar - with new polls calling for the offending poll creator's arrest and other social-networking sites questioning their policies amid an unprecedented level of online vitriol.
"It's like free speech on steroids," said Jesse Farmer, the Palo Alto, Calif., Web developer whose technology was used to inquire whether Mr. Obama should be killed in a Facebook poll, which is being investigated by the U.S. Secret Service.See the full content of this document
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Online Ethos Questioned After Facebook Poll ; Survey On Killing Obama Pulled
Mr. Farmer told The Washington Times in an interview that the incident has sparked a debate about how the Internet's gatekeepers can handle a flood of Internet activity wit...
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