<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Avri Doria <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avri@acm.org" target="_blank">avri@acm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 30 May 2012, at 21:17, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:<br>
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> Article 3 (7) on Facebook's Terms "You will not post content that: is hateful, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence."<br>
> This is in line with the exceptions under Article 19 of the ICCPR as explained by La Rue .Facebook Terms are found here: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/legal/terms" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/legal/terms</a> and most countries laws prohibit hate speech, nudity etc.<br>
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</div>not sure in what world nudity and hate speech fall under the same category.</blockquote><div><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div>The US apparently, see: <i>Miller v California</i> 413 U.S. 15 (1973) , <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"><i>United States v. Thomas</i>, 74 F.3d 701 (6th Cir. 1996)</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">"Even Wikipedia discusses how these varies from country to country, see "</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The definition of what exactly constitutes an obscenity differs from </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture" title="Culture" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">culture</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> to culture, between </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community" title="Community" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">communities</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> within a single culture, and also between individuals within those communities. Many cultures have produced </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law" title="Law" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">laws</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> to define what is considered to be obscene, and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship" title="Censorship" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">censorship</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> is often used to try to suppress or control materials that are obscene under these definitions: usually including, but not limited to, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography" title="Pornography" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">pornographic</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">material. As such censorship restricts freedom of expression, crafting a legal definition of obscenity presents a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_liberties" title="Civil liberties" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">civil liberties</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> issue." Source: </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscenity">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscenity</a></div>
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