Britain gets Facebook to delete 30 prisoners’ pages after inmates reportedly taunted victims

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Facebook pulls 30 UK inmates’ pages after taunts

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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s justice minister says Facebook has deleted the pages of 30 UK prisoners after they used the Internet to taunt their victims.

The move follows several incidents in which British criminals have reportedly used the social networking site to communicate with conspirators and act against victims.

Outrage over inmates’ online activities prompted Justice Minister Jack Straw to contact Facebook, he told the BBC.

In an interview posted online Thursday, Straw said he hoped Facebook would soon “press the delete button” whenever the government asked to have an offending profile removed.