Facebook deleting military pages

[Divemaster]

According to my wife, who checks in on a lot of Facebook military sites, today has been a night of the long knives. Military pages are being deleted en mass. Has anyone else seen this and can confirm?

[Sdiver]

I haven't noticed, but I'll keep my eye on it.

[34RX]

US-Infantrydotcom posted the following on their FB page-"No, we haven't been shut down and yes, we are aware of pages being shut down across Facebook for various reasons. We will do our best to avoid that."

One commenter stated that 9 military related pages had been deleted.

[BKKMAN]

Someone on my timeline had a link to this Facebook page, that had been taken down (they have since recreated it, but you can read the comments in that page's timeline that they were taken down...)

Grunts11Bravo

[SF_BHT]

So what are the sites that have been taken down?

List?

Has Facebook made any statements ref this? Or is this someone hacking and taking them down.

[JJ_BPK]

Some site are GTG??

https://www.facebook.com/Iran.Military

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Islam...74262123451?nr

[Agmundr]

At first, it was believed by many that it was due to a politician:

http://speier.house.gov/images/Corre...es8may2013.pdf

However, it's turned out that some people have taken it upon themselves to report the sites for posting nudity and pornography. One person doing the reporting was a military wife who found pictures of women in bikinis and such offensive, and there was an entire site which prides itself on being a bunch of POGs that got in on it. The "Pogworks" site has claimed responsibility and is going through and reporting the newly created replacement pages.

What I'm gathering is that the reporting would have gone fairly unnoticed until Congresswoman Speier came out with her statements whereas now Facebook is taking these reports by users much more seriously.