The website's owners have now apologized, “Thedisgusting photo has been removed and we are looking into finding a new moderator to prevent messages of hate like this from existing on our website,” a statement from the company said.“This kind of behaviour is not accepted on our site in any way and the IP of the individual responsible has been tracked and blocked,” the statement added.
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| Wiesenthal Center praises commitment of Internet activists who joined protest The Simon Wiesenthal Center praised hundreds of Internet activists who joined the Center's protest demanding that the demand that thepopular website, MemeMaker.net remove an offensive meme with an image of Hitler captioned, “I LOVE THE SMELL OF BURNING JEWS IN THE MORNING” (A meme is any type of viral Internet creationsuch as a video, text, or image. The type of meme in this case is image with a humorous caption). “The Simon Wiesenthal Center is grateful to the hundreds of Facebook activists who joined with us to demand the removal of thehorrific Hitler meme,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Center. “We trust that MemeMaker will take steps to ensure that their product and service are not hijacked bybigots,” he added. “Our Digital Terrorism and Hate project will continue to monitor and combat the leveraging of the Internet by extremists of all ilks.We encourage activists to send us links to such sites, newsgroups and pages to wiesenthal.com/2012slurs, our Facebook page or through Twitter,” Cooper concluded. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations with over 400,000 member families inthe United States. It is an NGO at international agencies including the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, the OAS, the Council of Europe and the Latin American Parliament(Parlatino). For more information, please contact the Center's Public Relations Department, 310-553-9036, join the Center on Facebook, www.facebook.com/simonwiesenthalcenter, or follow @simonwiesenthal for newsupdates sent direct to your Twitter page or mobile device |