Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, has posted a statement on the social network expressing his solidarity with the victims of the bloody attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, stressing the Facebook user's right to freedom of speech. "Facebook has always been a place where people throughout the world share their views and ideas ... we never let one country or group of people dictate what people can share worldwide," Zuckerberg said. Zuckerberg said that the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris, which left 12 people dead, reminded him of his own experience with extremism a few years ago on Facebook. A Pakistani extremist had tried to sentence Zuckerberg to death because Facebook had refused to ban content that offended the Prophet Mohamed. "We stood up for this because different voices -- even if they're sometimes offensive -- can make the world a better and more interesting place," Zuckerberg said. Zuckerberg's statement received hundreds of comments. One of them asked whether the content that had offended the man who threatened him was banned. His response was, "We did block the content in Pakistan where it was illegal, but we didn't block it to the rest of the world where it is legal."
