Rejected petition Regulation of Social Media Websites

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Social Media websites such as Facebook need to be regulated so that the public have an external body to complain to if the website fail to respond to complaints. Amongst other issues, highly offensive groups and hate groups are being set up by individuals and whilst people are reporting them to the website, the website are largely doing nothing about them nor putting any restriction on further groups being set up.

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Date submitted 9 September 2011
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