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Message: <blockquote data-quote="coolkasun" data-source="post: 16832763" data-attributes="member: 123068"><img src="http://adaderana.lk/news_images/830411687gota5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa today said that he has ordered  security authorities to take stern action against those who espouse  racial and religious hatred using social media. Sri Lanka has  seen a recent spike in the spread of religious hatred through social  media websites such as Facebook, in the wake of recent clashes in  Aluthgama and Beruwala.  Authorities had stated that various  rumors and false information being spread through text messages and  certain anti-Muslim and anti-Buddhist Facebook accounts had only  worsened the already unstable situation in the country.Meanwhile  Buddhist activists accused of alleged involvement in violence against  Sri Lanka’s Muslims said on Friday that accounts of their group’s  members on social media site Facebook had been blocked.“My  account is blocked,” Bodu Bala Sena spokesman Dilantha Vithanage was  quoted as saying by Reuters. “I can’t access my account. I last visited  my account on June 25 and the accounts of others have also been  blocked.”Ven Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara, the BBS general  secretary, also said his account had been blocked. “I have created  another account,” he said.A Facebook spokesman in London  declined to comment on any action taken by the company in Sri Lanka and  referred Reuters to its terms of service.Clashes erupted on June 15 in Aluthgama and Beruwela, two towns with  large Muslim populations on the southern coast, during a protest march  led by the hardline group Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), or “Buddhist Power  Force”. The Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Response Team (SLCERT)  says that no concrete action could be taken against those who spread  religious and racial hatred on Facebook and that the popular social  media website’s terms of use have prevented authorities from taking any  action regarding this issue.<img src="http://adaderana.lk/assets/images/logo.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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