Facebook Briefly Pulls Ebert's Page After 'Jackass' Rant
Facebook took down movie critic Roger Ebert's page after he criticized the late Jackass star Ryan Dunn for drinking and driving.
What’s the right amount of time before speaking ill of the dead? For movie critic Roger Ebert, it took only hours to criticize the late Jackass star Ryan Dunn for drinking and driving. Facebook just as swiftly took the film critic’s page down.
Dunn had died in a car crash that also took his friend’s life. After Ebert’s post about the late Jackass star, Facebook pulled the page and put up a placeholder disclaimer saying that the site doesn’t allow pages with hateful, threatening or obscene content.
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