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Facebook group SFR Jugoslavija – SFR Yugoslavia added the following paragraph 7 into
rules and regulations :
ALL MEMBERS WHO TAKE AS THEIR PROFILE PICUTRE A PHOTO OF WAR
CRIMINALS AND ANY POLITICIAN WHO TOOK PART IN THE BLOODY
DISSOLUTION OF Yugoslavia ..IN 1991...OR DEFENDED THE POLITICS OF
CRIME AGAINST ANY OF OUR NATIONS AND NATIONALITIES AND
YUGOSLAVS.....1991-2000. OR WAS LEADER OF ANY TRAITORS UNIT IN
SECOND WORLD WAR ..1941-1945.....WILL BE BANNED WITHOUT NOTICE
.....BECUASE SUCH TYPES ARE NOT WELL COME IN OUR GROUP ....THIS IS A
Yugoslav GROUP AND SUCH THINGS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED HERE
THANK YOUR FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND UNDERStANDING
DEATH TO FASCISM-FREEDOM TO THE PEOPLE
by: SFR Jugoslavija – SFR Yugoslavia 375
The posts that follow, however, quite often give the profile policy a much more exaggerated
policing hue. Thus, through affective responses to the policy is further radicalised, beyond the
immediate intention of the admins‘ intervention:
De Dragana we‘re thestrongest ...that many positive links on one place.....this has the
potential to grow...... 15 hours ago
Dejan Traikovsky Who doesn‘t like it here FEEL FREE TO GO !!! comrades no one is
forcing them to stay ... wide is the SURAT KNJIGA (facebook) :-)))))))) !!! 376
The very specific classification of the off-limits content nevertheless seems too vague and in need
of additional clarification. Thus the post is not only an inhospitable memorial space for
supporters/fans of war criminals and collaborators (and justifiably so), rather, the ban is expanded
to exclude anyone who does not like the profile or its content, i.e. the object of commemoration, as
presented/curated/censored. Which is fair enough, but still poses a question about the role of a
memorial that only appeals to a relatively limited loyal or superficially engaged part of users and
actively excludes the more critical ones. Can such a memorial then serve as a platform for
discussing the prospects of a renewed Yugoslavia, as the profile claims, or it thus essentially,
collaboratively co-creates its inherent ‗self-destruct protocol‘? Unless the aim is strictly to
commemorate, or rather co-create pop-cultural historical cyberspace of policed memory, and
abandon any wider political action... as one user observes:
375 SFR Jugoslavija – SFR Yugoslavia, accessed 10 June 2011.
376 Ibid.
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