VKontakte Cancels Miss Hitler 2014 Beauty Pageant Due To Calls For Violent Actions
VKontakte, the Russian equivalent of Facebook, blocked the Web site of the Miss Hitler 2014 beauty pageant because of its push for violent actions on Jews.
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Since the contest winner is determined by the number of "likes" generated by the 14 Russian and Eastern European contestants, the pageant is deemed dead, unlike other beauty contests in which online voting is only one factor in choosing winners since a contest proper and coronation night takes place in a separate venue.
George Lobushkin, head of VKontakte's public relations, explained to Vocativ - which broke the story of the unique beauty pageant inspired by German dictator Adolf Hitler, that the portal's Terms of Service bans site members from "loading, storing, publishing, disseminating, making available or otherwise using any information which: propagandizes and/or contributes to racial, religious, hatred or hostility, propagandizes fascism or racial superiority."
A Vkontake member who created the Adolf Hitler page under the username Aleksandr Anderson, asked an agent of the Web site the reason for the Nazi fan page's blocking. However, the VKontakte agent said Anderson's query is still being investigated.
Russia actually has a media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, which is run by the government, but VKontakte said it shuttered the Adolf Hitler Web site on its own initiative.
VKontakte has not blocked Anderson's pro-Hitler groups as well as other Nazi pages in the portal. The followers of these groups range from 5,000 to 30,000.
Anderson's pro-Hitler page that organised the Miss Ostland 2014, the official title of the winner, has about 7,000 followers.
Here's a peek at the 14 contestants who just lost the chance to become Miss Hitler 2014.
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