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Nangpa_UK
It will be interesting to see how long this Facebook page remains. I was one of those who signed the Petitiononline.co.uk petition objecting to the DW purchase of the Beaufoy building in London, shortly before the petition was removed without explanation. I signed through my Facebook account.
Despite the petition being pulled, the fact of my having signed it remained on my FB wall. A few days ago I received the following message from FB:
"We have removed or disabled access to the following content that you have posted on Facebook because we received a notice from a third party that the content infringes or otherwise violates their rights"
Which rights I wonder? Not Freedom of Speech surely. That would be an hypocrisy too far. The message from Facebook goes on to remind me that they take such infringements seriously and that users have been banned for such things. I hope therefore you will forgive me if I do not "like" or write on your page (not that I treasure my FB account that much!)
Maybe DW doesn't have much real power but they do have deep pockets and presumably ready access to "reputation protection" lawyers. Having silenced both Petitions Online and Vauxhall Civil Society (q.v.) I suspect that DW has resorted to a cowardly and distasteful legal tactic called SLAPP. This is particularly effective when a large and/or rich organisation seeks to silence a critical small organisation or individual. They just need to point out that they may consider legal action and that, if they do, it will be financially ruinous for those they are seeking to silence. Another dubious "Buddhist" organisation is the champion of the SLAPP action (but I don't want to go off topic.) The Wikipedia article on this device notes that it is often used by rich and powerful groups to silence their critics when they know that, if it did come to court, they'd have little real chance of victory.
It is interesting to note that an organisation of the size of Facebook has crumbled so easily. Soon there may be nowhere to critically examine Diamond Way except the Rick Ross site (which I assume has not been threatened or has treated threats with the contempt they deserve.)
That is very interesting fact!!
if it is a true than it goes against DW and I am not sure they want to be seen that way. I will post a link to your comment if you don't mind .