Hungarian Guard to be removed from social networking site
The recently-formed "Hungarian Guard" (Magyar Gárda) will be removed from Hungary's largest social networking website iWiW, reports fn.hu. The far-right paramilitary group has already drawn more than 16,000 "acquaintances" on the site.
Over the past several days, the website's operators received several complaints regarding the user named Magyar Gárda. The user registered on the site on February 6, 2006, when the guard did not exist. This summer, the user started collecting connections from people thought to be sympathizers.
Balázs Sólyom, spokesman for T-online, which owns iWiW, said that the site can delete users without any preliminary warning, and that political organizations are specifically prohibited from using it, adding that the website is for forming friendships. According to the network's conditions of use, a user can be removed if he or she is not an individual and if the operator receives complaints from other users.
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