MySpace: No place for Atheists?

A thought: If you don't want to use myspace, why not sign up on our RichardDawkins.net Social Networking Site?

UPDATE: Also see: 'MySpace deletes hacked Web site for atheists and agnostics' by Cleveland.com

Reposted from:
http://www.secularstudents.org/node/1933

Contact: Bryan J. Pesta, Ph.D., b.pesta@csuohio.edu

MySpace Deletes Largest Atheist Group in the World.

Cleveland, OH - Social networking site, MySpace.com, panders to religious intolerants by deleting atheist users, groups and content.

Early this month, MySpace again deleted the "Atheist and Agnostic Group (35,000 members). This deletion, due largely to complaints from people who find atheism offensive, marks the second time MySpace has cancelled the group since November 2007.

What's unique in this case is that the Atheist and Agnostic Group was the largest collection of organized atheists in the world. The group had its own Wikipedia entry, and in April won the Excellence in Humanist Communication Award (2007) from the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University and the Secular Student Alliance.

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ALSO SEE: 'Facebook knows I'm an atheist'
http://newhumanist.org.uk/1720

Also, see this link from the New Humanist Magazine, which includes a poll â€" What should be done about MySpace?:
http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2008/01/banned-myspace-deletes-largest-atheist.html

TAGGED: ATHEISM, RELIGION, TECHNOLOGY


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