Facebook Refuses to Remove Group Promoting Anti-Cyclist Violence - Streetsblog San Francisco

by Matthew Roth on January 8, 2010

Screenshot from the Facebook group promoting dooring, among other acts that injure cyclists.

A number of Streetsblog readers have noticed a particularly loathsome group that has sprouted up on Facebook and has a legion of fans. As of this writing, more than 32,000 people are fans of "There's a perfectly good bike path right next to the road you stupid cyclist," a group page with a bunch of anti-cyclist screeds and some pretty nasty photos of bicycle crashes and car-on-bike violence. Facebook has concluded that the group does not violate the site's terms of use and will not shut it down.

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