Pink Chaddi pleas to Facebook ignored
By Techgirl

The thugs of Sri Rama Sene horrified Indians by their cowardly attacks on youngsters enjoying a day out at a pub in Mangalore. A group of Indian women formed the Facebook group ‘Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women’ to counter the right wing moral police.  Their public campaign of sending Pink Chaddis (underwear) to the Rama Sene leader was a great success.

The gutsy approach by this group of women won them universal praise and admiration. Like many other journalists, even I signed on to this clever idea and worthy cause.

Now their Facebook group has been repeatedly hacked in the last two weeks.  The Hindu is reporting that the names of the 59000 supporters on the Facebook group have vanished and the site defaced with racist and misogynist graffiti.

And it seems that Facebook has different standards while dealing with popular Facebook groups in America and India.  While any such group in America would have their site restored without hours (maximum 1 day), my Indian sisters are being snubbed and ignored by Facebook.

The Hindu is reporting:

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Even after several complaints to Facebook administrators, not much has happened. This is despite a month of sending of emails to Facebook about the group being hacked continuously,

Nisha Susan, creator of the group, who also started the Pink Chaddi Campaign, has received no response from Facebook. “We got automatically generated emails from Facebook saying that they were looking into it, and then emails saying that Facebook could not be hacked,” she said.

A few days ago, her account was disabled by Facebook, because as the creator of the group she was seen as abusing her account.
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Perhaps we should send Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg a few left over Pink Chaddis to grab his attention to do the right thing by the Indian activists. 

Techgoss note:  Techgirl is a senior Tech journalist who reports on the IT, KPO and KPO Sectors for a leading media house.  In her spare time, she dabbles in satire in her blog
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