LOLZ on the intarwebz, and calls for censorship...

Update x2: Thankfully facebook has resisted pressure from the censormongers on their site, releasing the following statement with regards to the original anti-cyclist fan page on the San Fran Streetsblog page:

We take our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities very seriously and react quickly to remove reported content that violates our policies. Specifically, we're sensitive to content that includes hate speech and/or actionable threats of violence. The goal of these policies is to strike a very delicate balance between giving Facebook users the freedom to express their opinions and beliefs, even controversial ones, and maintaining a safe and trusted environment.

We've reviewed this group and determined that it doesn't violate our policies. We encourage users to report anything they feel does violate these policies using the report links located throughout the site. Thanks.

COMMON SENSE PREVAILS! Thank God someone out there is capable of keeping their head about them over what seems to be a rather emotional issue.

Update: As of 2 days ago there's now a Facebook Group of cyclists calling for the censoring of the aforementioned fan club, and they've got over 11k members. Though I'm not entirely surprised, my first comments posted to their wall were censored and deleted almost immediately. Douchebags. Similarly, an article was posted to Bicycle.Net which also supports these guys, and my comments there were deleted as well. Censor-mongering cyclists sicken me. Grow some thicker skin and realize words are words already.

This awesomely trollish fan club is making the rounds on the facebooks these days, typically being posted by bikers along with either the requisite rage against their ignorance or a more Orwellian call for censorship. For everyone calling for censorship, YOU SUCK! The rest of you, I feel you though you have to remember this is a TROLL! An internet-only version of this, if you will.

In a way I think the fan club is doing us a service by highlighting these people so that we can avoid them, school them, pour sugar in their gas tank, whatever. There's a handy little button that allows us to see all the fans, and people in your friends list automatically filter to the top. I'm happy to say that 0% of my internet friends are fans of "There's a perfectly good path right next to the road you stupid cyclist!", but you can easily do the check yourself if you're curious about the circles you travel in.

So all y'all calling to censor this site: a) fuck you you're what's wrong with this world, and b) you're doing us a disservice by masking these ignorant douchebags from us, so fuck off about it already and let it stand. They've got 32,341 fans at this moment (for comparison ATXBS.com only has 434 and Social Cycling ATX has 2,238) so they're actually becoming a rather good resource for asshole-spotting. Safe your bile for drunk drivers and people who actually hit-and-run cyclists as opposed to internet tough guys and trolls.

Sorry if I come across as harsh. I love you all, even the censormongers amongst you.