Report: Larry Klayman sues Facebook for doing too little too late to remove page inciting violence towards Jews and Israel.
Less than a week after Facebook removed a "cause" page calling for a "Third Intifada," the social networking website and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg were hit with a lawsuit seeking more than $1 billion in damages, AFP reported Saturday.
Facebook removed the page after the site’s monitors said administrators of the page were found to be participating in calls for violence. The ADL, Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein, the Zionist Organization of America, and thousands of site users had requested both personally and online through Facebookthat site administrators take down what was described as a violence-inciting, anti-Semitic page.
The suit, which AFP acquired from technology blog TechCrunch, was filed in theWashington DC Superior Court by Larry Klayman, a self-described "American citizen of Jewish origin" who is "active with matters concerning the security of Israel and all people." Klayman claimed thatFacebook showed "negligence" by not quickly responding the the calls to shut down the "Third Intifada" page.
Klayman also called onFacebook to comb its site for all pages under the title "Third Intifada" or any other page that incited violence towards Jews and remove them, AFP reported.
Facebook has said it would fight the case, dismissing it as being "without merit," AFP cited a website spokesperson as saying. According to the social networking website, the page was initially tolerate because had begun calling for a "peaceful protest," but breached the acceptable lines when posters and eventually the site administrator made posts violating Facebook's policies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
About Larry Klayman:
Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, is known for his strong public interest advocacy in furtherance of ethics in government and individual freedoms and liberties. During his tenure at Judicial Watch, he obtained a court ruling that Bill Clinton committed a crime, the first lawyer ever to have done so against an American president. Larry became so famous for fighting corruption in the government and the legal profession that the NBC hit drama series "West Wing" created a character after him: Harry Klaypool of Freedom Watch. His character was played by actor John Diehl.
In 2004, Larry ran for the U.S. Senate as a Republican in Florida's primary. After the race ended, he founded Freedom Watch.
Larry graduated from Duke University with honors in political science and French literature. Later, he received a law degree from Emory University. During the administration of President Ronald Reagan, Larry was a Justice Department prosecutor and was on the trial team that succeeded in breaking up the telephone monopoly of AT&T, thereby creating competition in the telecommunications industry.
Between Duke and Emory, Larry worked for U.S. Senator Richard Schweiker (R-Pa.) during the Watergate era. He has also studied abroad and was a stagiaire for the Commission of the European Union in its Competition Directorate in Brussels, Belgium. During law school, Larry also worked for the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington, D.C.
Larry speaks four languages—English, French, Italian, and Spanish—and is an international lawyer, among his many areas of legal expertise and practice.
The author of two books, Fatal Neglect and Whores: Why and How I Came to Fight the Establishment, Larry has a third book in the works dealing with the breakdown of our political and legal systems. His current book, Whores, is on now sale at WND.com, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, Borders.com, and all major stores and booksellers.
Larry is a frequent commentator on television and radio, as well as a weekly columnist, on Friday, for WND.com.
Larry has been credited as being the inspiration for the Tea Party movement. (See "Larry Klayman - The One Man TEA Party," by Dr. Richard Swier.)
