UN Accused Facebook of Helping Pirates

Facebook normally has no troubles with anti-piracy outfits, as it doesn’t allow streaming of copyrighted content like other networks. But now it is not about digital piracy. The United Nations wants social network to walk the plank for refusing to answer questions about Somali pirates. The UN believes that Long John Silver and his ilk have been coordinating their raids on maritime shipping through Facebook.

A UN commission on sanctions stated in its report to the UN Security Council that Somali pirates have been supported by a network of accomplices, which involves bankers, businessmen, politicians and aid workers. Investigations confirmed that all those facilitators 

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are interlinked via different communication channels and use such social network services as Facebook. The same report states that regardless of repeated official correspondence addressed to the social network, Facebook failed to respond to monitoring group requests to discuss information on its accounts that belong to people involved in hijackings and hostage-taking. The United Nations claims that other private companies voluntarily provide active and comprehensive support, but Facebook doesn’t.