[governance] About Facebook blocked and content removed in Brazil

[Rui Correia]

I tried to go through the posts, but found very little of any use.

Perhaps most people are gogetting that Facebook is a public place,
with children of all ages participating everyday.

If you watch tv, whatever you watch comes with an age rating and an
advisory block to the parent/ adult about language, nudity, violence,
sex, etc. That person can then act accordingly. Subscription channels
come with parental controI mechanismc. In a cinema, you will not be
allowed in with your 7-year-old in tow to watch an adult/ R-rated/
X-rated movie.

And as someone has been trying to point out all along, FB is viewed
around the world.

I am against censorship of all sorts, but we seem to be forgetting the
basic test of 'shouting "FIRE" in a crowded theatre'.

So, for all of you shouting sensorship, how do you suggest that
Facebook protect a young child from images that HIS PARENTS would not
want him/ her to see?

The last image below says "I am a slut" (in the context of the
translation of "Slut Walk"/ Marcha das Vadias"). It is perfecty fine
as an instrument of protest - but I doubt that woman in picture would
show it to her own young children.

A few examples from the "Marchas das Vadias".
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juperestrelo/7288652922/
http://www.bluebus.com.br/afotos/marcha_das_vadias_censurada_facebook.jpg
http://latuffcartoons.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/marcha-das-vadias1.gif
http://blogay.blogfolha.uol.com.br/files/2012/05/151836-970x600-1.jpg


On 30 May 2012 17:32, Marilia Maciel <mariliamaciel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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: http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/tec/1097488-facebook-bloqueia-usuarias-que-aparecem-seminuas-em-fotos-da-marcha-das-vadias.shtml
>
> Marília
>
>
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