In Soviet America, you don't sue when you are censored - you get sued for not censoring fast enough!
Have we really evolved past the point of protecting censorship that we are now suing people for not taking something down fast enough?? The controversial FB profile page of the "third Palestinian intifada" was removed on March 29th due to allegations of violence. [ I would also like to add as a counter point to the page removal - feel free to scan around facebook, especially regarding anti-LGBT pages. I'm sure you'd find some shocking "allegations of violence" as well.] Free speech advocates have expressed much dismay over the measure and have many questioning if there wasn't measurements that could have been taken instead of the full removal of the page.
One thing that wasn't foreseen was to find people so upset it wasn't taken down sooner. Larry Klayman, an author, activist, and former senate candidate is now suing Zuckerberg for a hefty 1 billion for not taking down the page fast enough. Read the more on this story here
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