Argentines Remember the Disappeared — By Vanishing from Facebook

[cory777]

Source: Time

When Facebook users in Argentina logged on to the social network Wednesday, they may have noticed that something had disappeared — their friends' profile pictures went missing.

But unlike previous Facebook mishaps, such as the recent spamming of private messages to users in America, these profile updates were no mistake. Tens of thousands of Facebook users in the South American nation took down their pictures to commemorate the estimated 30,000 people who were disappeared during the country's Dirty War.




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[Ken Burch]

1. What an amazing idea!

n/t.

[myrna minx]

2. Wow. K&R n/t

[gleaner]

5. I remember the mothers of some of the disappeared ...

standing in a group silently holding up pictures of the faces of their children and at a time when it was very dangerous for them to be doing it.

It is a very simple idea, the disappearance from Facebook, but a perfect haunting reminder of unspeakable atrocities.

K&R :kick:

[aquart]

3. 30,000. Young, hopeful, some pregnant. 30,000.

[WinkyDink]

7. I'm sure it couldn't happen here. *sarcasm* The RW'ers today would LOVE to "disappear" us.

[troubledamerican]

8. Wikipedia: Dirty War -- all the pre-conditions are here now

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War

[Capitalocracy]

10. And their children were stolen and raised by fascists.

And many of them later found out, and had to make a choice... whether they preferred their fascist parents, or to start a new life on their own as hijos de desaparecidos in a nation where it's very hard to start from zero.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Quite amazing

but also very very sad.:cry:

[Jefferson23]

6. That made me gasp, what a statement, bravo. n/t

[Capitalocracy]

9. funny enough, I didn't even hear about it

or I would've done the same

I put up a pañuelo blanco for the Madres de Plaza de Mayo