<div><br></div>Last weekend a feminist march took place in several cities in Brazil. It is called "March of Bitches" (Marcha das Vadias) and it is an international movement that was born in Canada. Some women decided to March wearing lingerie or with naked breasts as a way to call attention to violence against women, women's liberty and sexual rights and they posted their own pictures in Facebook. Their pictures were removed and their profile was blocked.<div>
<br></div><div>So, let me get this right: Brazilian media publishes the pictures from the protest, in a sign that this would not at all hurt the average citizen. But Facebook (the platform where most of the use of the Internet is, unfortunately, converging to) gets to decide what people can or cannot show in their albums; what is pornography, and where to draw the line of morality. It has been reported in Brazil that Facebook is also blocking old pictures from well known artists that display naked people, and pictures from little girls aged 3-4 posted by their parents, because they were not wearing shirts. </div>
<div><br></div><div>This seems a very undemocratic, opaque and potentially dangerous way of conducting Internet governance. The news (in Portuguese) and one of the controversial pictures can be accessed here: <a href="http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/tec/1097488-facebook-bloqueia-usuarias-que-aparecem-seminuas-em-fotos-da-marcha-das-vadias.shtml">http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/tec/1097488-facebook-bloqueia-usuarias-que-aparecem-seminuas-em-fotos-da-marcha-das-vadias.shtml</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Marília</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br>Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade<br>FGV Direito Rio<br><br>Center for Technology and Society<br>Getulio Vargas Foundation<br>Rio de Janeiro - Brazil<br>
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