Secret Service Investigates Facebook Poll Asking If Obama Should Be Killed

[Doodle]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/28/facebook.poll/index.html

The social networking site Facebook on Monday pulled a third-party application that allows users to create polls after a site member built a poll asking if President Obama should be killed.
There are more than 350,000 applications on Facebook. The company says it disables any that violate its terms.

There are more than 350,000 applications on Facebook. The company says it disables any that violate its terms.

The U.S. Secret Service, the agency assigned to protect the president, has launched an investigation, agency spokesman James Mackin said.

"As is usually the case, our vigilant users reported it to us first," Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt told CNN. "The USSS [Secret Service] sent us an e-mail late this morning PDT asking us to take it down. At that point, it had already been removed, and we let them know."

Schnitt said the application "was immediately suspended while the inappropriate content could be removed by the developer and until such time as the developer institutes better procedures to monitor their user-generated content."

Facebook allows third-party developers to create applications -- such as polls and quizzes -- which are then made available to Facebook users, who use the applications to create specific content. Users may choose to make their content available to the general population of Facebook or limit it only to their friends.

In this case, Schnitt said, the user made the poll asking whether Obama should be killed available to the general public.

That's pretty funny.
Though it's a dumb move to make a public poll about whether you think the president should be killed, or any other political figure.

[Jono2]

Freedom of speech my ass imo

[PsychoYoshi]

I personally don't have a problem with the poll, but Facebook has the right to pull it if they want to; free speech only applies to the public domain.

[Doodle]

Freedom of speech my ass imo

Well, there has to be a limit. You can't go around saying you want the president dead, lol.

[Tsumaru]

Well, there has to be a limit. You can't go around saying you want the president dead, lol.

Lots of people did it for Bush.

[Kilroy]

Facebook has a right to take the quiz down, but the SS investigating it is a little much. I heard about this on the radio, they started off with "Poll about Obama pulled from Facebook!", then they went to commercial. My dad and I were like "lol it's probably like "do you hate the health care plan?" or something". They come back, "SHOULD OBAMA BE ASSASSINATED?"

Honestly, whoever posted it is a complete moron, whether or not he's the head of the people who are continuing to run this country into the ground.

[JrDude]

I heard somewhere that it's illegal to say "I want to kill the president of the United States" or something like that, or it may have been a retarded Youtube video made for a couple of laughs.

[Jono2]

Well, there has to be a limit. You can't go around saying you want the president dead, lol.

People did it for Bush, people do it in Canada here, saying that they wish the prime minister was dead.

It's not like they were making a cell in order to kill the president.  The government should have a hundred other more important things to investigate than this.

[L10]

stupid people are stupid?

[Lotos]

Lots of people did it for Bush.

And it didn't work :(

[jnfs2014]

I voted yes.

[Mystic]

Lots of people did it for Bush.

Bush is an idiot.

[Jono2]

Bush is an idiot.

Obama has no experience whatsoever and has done nothing productive.

[Crispy Cobalt]

So you feel a person deserves death just because they have no experince at what they do?

[Mystic]

Obama has no experience whatsoever and has done nothing productive.

I don't see how that negates my point