Facebook takes down 30 prisoners’ pages after victim taunts

Thirty Facebook pages have been taken down because prisoners were using them to taunt their victims, Jack Straw, the justice secretary, has revealed.

The minister said the 30 offending pages brought to the attention of Facebook had been removed within 48 hours. Ministers were seeking to identify “better methods” of preventing the “deplorable” abuse of victims via social networking sites, he added.

Straw was speaking after a meeting with Ofcom’s Chris Woolard, Facebook’s European director of policy, Richard Allan, and members of Families United to talk about the issues around prisoners’ access to social networking sites.

He said he was “reassured by the cooperation which we’re receiving from Facebook” as he called today for a longer-term solution “to this very modern version of the old problem of victim harassment”.

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“Need people who aren’t Christians to review church service”

The help-wanted ad going live this week on Craigslist might raise some eyebrows. If not tempers.

“Need people who aren’t Christians to review church service,” it says.

It goes on. “Who: Age 20-35. Do not currently believe Jesus Christ is God. Not mad at Christians.

“What: Attend a church service (anonymously) and complete a survey.”

The pay for this odd job? $50. To go, once, to the Sunday service at North Sound Church in Edmonds and rate it on everything from whether the music is tedious to if the sermon seems sincere.

It’s the inspiration of Jim Henderson, a Seattle evangelical Christian, former pastor and self-described “spiritual anthropologist” who says it’s past time Christians found out “what our true customers really think.”

He came up with the Craigslist ad. As well as a Web site for ranking houses of worship, called ChurchRater.com.

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