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| Samanya Kannadiga sends legal notice to Facebook for deleting its page |
Sandeep P, president of Samanya Kannadiga, tweeted on Friday saying he had sent a legal notice to Facebook for deleting its popular page which had a following of over 20,000 people.
As NewsCrunch had reported recently, Facebook unpublished a hugely popular pro-Kannada page Samanya Kannadiga (Ordinary Kannadiga) for violating its terms of use.
Without elaborating the nature of transgression, Facebook had just sent a standard message it uses on these occasions. Facebook rules prohibit any page from running campaigns against individuals or groups.
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.
Samanya Kannadiga had also highlighted an incident in which a Flipkart employee had abused Kannada.
It is possible that Facebook acted on complaints or mass reporting of abuse by those unhappy with Samanya Kannadiga's activities and unpublished it.
If the legal notice is pursued seriously, it may prompt Facebook to follow a more nuanced approach in dealing with complaints. It should specify to the page in question the nature of transgression, hear from it and then give time to take corrective action.
It may not be possible to follow this approach to every page that is reported; but groups, which have been in operation for sometime, have thousands of members and represent specific interests can be considered a separate case and treated with more consideration.