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| A creative released by Samanya Kannadiga page |
Gowri Ramesh, July 22, 2015, Bangalore, NewsCrunch
Facebook has unpublished a hugely popular pro-Kannada page Samanya Kannadiga (Ordinary Kannadiga) for violating its terms of use.
Samanya Kannadiga had over 20,000 members and was active in taking on issues which were seen as offensive to kannadigas.
Most recently Samanya Kannadiga had campaigned against Chirag Mittal, a sales manager at Casa Grande, a Chennai based real estate developer.
Chirag Mittal had made a Facebook post making fun of Kannadigas. He had said that people were coming from outside to rule over local people while adding that five Kannadigas were working under him.
The post was picked by Samanya Kannadiga and shared widely, which led to angry reactions by fellow kannadigas.
Bangalore Mirror reported that though Chirag Mittal apologised, the anger and hate calls continued; concerned that their brand was taking a hit, Casa Grande terminated Chirag Mittal.
A day after that Facebook acted on a complaint that Samanya Kannadiga had violated its terms of use and axed its page as well.
Facebook rules prohibit any page from running campaigns against individuals or groups.