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<title><![CDATA[Facebook takes down Palestinian intifada page]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Facebook)A Facebook page called the Third Palestinian Intifada has been removed from the site following a request from the Israeli government.Yuli Edelstein, Israel's minister of public diplomacy and diaspora affairs, sent a letter directly to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on March 23. In the letter, which has been posted on the Web site The Jerusalem Gift Shop, Edelstein asked the company to take down the page calling for a third intifada, translated by some as violent uprising, to begin against Israel on May 15.Pointing to remarks and movie clips on the page calling for the killing of Israelis and Jews and the liberation of Palestine through violence, Edelstein expressed concern over the &quot;wild incitement&quot; that could be caused by the page, which had collected more than 230,000 friends at the time he wrote the letter.On Friday, the Anti-Defamation League also asked Facebook to remove the page, labeling it &quot;an appalling abuse of technology to promote terrorist violence&quot; with &quot;inflammatory anti-Israel language calling for supporters to build on the previous two intifadas.&quot;From its initial response, Facebook appeared reluctant to take action.&quot;We strongly believe that Facebook users have the ability to express their opinions, and we don't typically take down content, groups, or Pages that speak out against countries, religions, political entities, or ideas,&quot; Facebook spokeswoman Debbie Frost said in a statement e-mailed to Bloomberg.But as of today Facebook had removed the Third Palestinian Intifada page. Explaining its decision, a Facebook spokesman e-mailed CNET the following statement:The Page, The Third Palestinian Intifada, began as a call for peaceful protest, even though it used a term that has been associated with violence in the past. In addition, the administrators initially removed comments that promoted violence. However, after the publicity of the Page, more comments deteriorated to direct calls for violence. Eventually, the administrators also participated in these calls. After administrators of the page received repeated warnings about posts that violated our policies, we removed the Page. Facebook added that it continues to &quot;believe that people on Facebook should be able to express their opinions, and we don't typically take down content that speaks out against countries, religions, political entities, or ideas. However, we monitor Pages that are reported to us and when they degrade to direct calls for violence or expressions of hate--as occurred in this case--we have and will continue to take them down.&quot;Saying that it welcomed the decision to take down the page, the Anti-Defamation League asked Facebook to &quot;vigilantly monitor their pages for other groups that call for violence or terrorism against Jews and Israel.&quot;Since the removal of the page, new ones have been created to replace it. Though the number of friends is small so far compared with the original, the new pages appear to mimic the first one with further calls in both English and Arabic for a new intifada.Literally translated as &quot;shaking off,&quot; the word intifada is more commonly translated as &quot;revolution&quot; or &quot;uprising.&quot; Palestinians have staged two intifadas, according to CNN, one that began in 1987 and another that started in 2000. During the second intifada, thousands of Israelis and Palestinians died, CNN said.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Palantir&'s third black eye: i2 lawsuit settled]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[For a company named after a magical talisman of vision, Palantir didn&amp;'t seem to see what was coming these past few weeks.The secretive data-analysis startup, based in Palo Alto, Calif. and backed by early Facebook investor Peter Thiel, has suffered a number of blows to its public image of late. The most recent is the settlement of a lawsuit filed by rival i2 Group, based in McLean, Va., over accusations that Palantir employees fraudulently obtained i2 software and used it to design competing products.Since Palantir touts itself as the product of fraud-detection technologies pioneered at PayPal, the payments startup Thiel cofounded, those charges present ironies, as i2&amp;'s lawyers eagerly pointed out in their initial complaint.Separately, Palantir CEO Alex Karp issued a public statement apologizing for his company&amp;'s role in preparing a plan for Bank of America to strike back at Wikileaks, the Internet-based nonprofit group famed for obtaining and releasing sensitive documents into the public domain. The company also placed employee Matthew Steckman on leave after hackers released emails showing he was involved in preparing a similar plan for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to damage ThinkProgress, a pro-labor publication.Mitch Derman, an i2 spokesman, and Palantir general counsel Matt Long both declined to comment on the settlement of their companies&amp;' dispute, citing an agreement in the settlement not to discuss the case further.i2&amp;'s original complaint, however, makes claims that are embarrassing to both companies. The short version: According to i2, Palantir employee Shyam Sankar obtained i2 software representing himself as a principal of SRS Enterprises, a company registered under the names of his parents in Florida. Sankar then allegedly proceeded to analyze i2&amp;'s software and use the results to develop tools to import data from i2&amp;'s software for use in Palantir&amp;'s analytical tools. (For its part, Palantir responded by alleging that i2 had &amp;''unclean hands&amp;'' because it purportedly used information about Palantir&amp;'s products obtained through a company i2 acquired.)Even lodging this complaint posed an image problem for i2: The company said the claimed fraud went on for four years, right under its nose. Derman, the i2 spokesman, did not directly answer a question about whether i2 used its software in its own operations to detect fraudulent customers. Instead, he noted that i2 has a wide range of customers in law enforcement and other parts of the public sector.One could make the same critique of Palantir. In a statement provided by Long, the company said that the kind of dirty tricks proposed against Wikileaks and ThinkProgress were &amp;''contrary to Palantir&amp;'s ethics, culture and policies.&amp;'' If Sankar and Steckman did conduct themselves improperly, and Karp, the Palantir CEO, had to apologize for the company&amp;'s actions in the Bank of America brouhaha, how effective is Palantir at detecting breaches of its own policies before they burst into the public eye And should its public-sector customers, some of them engaged in critical national-security activities, trust itHere&amp;'s i2&amp;'s original complaint against Palantir:i2 v. palantir &amp;8211' 080910 And here&amp;'s Palantir&amp;'s response:i2 v. Palantir: Palantir&amp;'s Answer to ComplaintNext Story: Steve Jobsa4a4 cancer clinic sighting sparks new Apple worries Previous Story: Campus Dibs raises funding to become the college GrouponPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: data analysis, dirty tricksCompanies: i2 Group, Palantir TechnologiesPeople: Matt Long, Mitch Derman          Tags: data analysis, dirty tricksCompanies: i2 Group, Palantir TechnologiesPeople: Matt Long, Mitch DermanOwen Thomas is the executive editor of VentureBeat. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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