[governance] Top Social Media Websites Caught Censoring Controversial Content

[Riaz K Tayob]

  Top Social Media Websites Caught Censoring Controversial Content

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<http://www.zerohedge.com/users/george-washington> on 02/23/2012 02:07 -0500


Facebook pays low-wage foreign workers to delete certain content based 
upon a censorship list 
<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/22/low-wage-facebook-contractor-leaks-secret-censorship-list/>. 
For example, Facebook deletes accounts created by Palestinian resistance 
groups.

Digg was caught censoring stories which were controversial or too 
critical of the government. See this 
<http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/03/72835> and this 
<http://web.archive.org/web/20070311084954/http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=20587>.

Now, even social media site Reddit -- which helped launch the anti-Sopa 
Internet blackout and publicize GoDaddy's slimy Sopa support -- is doing 
the same thing.

As just one example, posts from this website are being censored by 
Reddit. Specifically, a friend of this site who has submitted stories to 
Reddit has received the following messages of rejection from a Reddit 
moderator named davidreiss666:

    from *davidreiss666 <http://www.reddit.com/user/davidreiss666> via
    /r/worldnews/*

        WashingtonBlog is not something we consider a good source for
        r/Worldnews.


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