[governance] Re: About Facebook blocked and content removed in Brazil

Tue Jun 5 11:27:04 EDT 2012

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Rui Correia <correia.rui at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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?
>

Are you somehow suggesting that FB board has the ability to understand and
translate into their policies the will of parents coming from different
countries and cultures when it comes to educating children and keeping them
safe? This debate is difficult even in relatively homogeneous regions,
imagine in a diverse cultural environment...

And, as far as I understand, it should be up to the parents to decide when
their children are mature enough to use the Internet and to use platforms
such as FB. A young children should not be left alone online, not in FB or
in the public internet. FB is not a nanny.

>
> 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.
>

I think you are wrong, as many women took their children to the walk, as
you see on the second picture you posted. I personally would have no
problem to show a child the pictures you mentioned below as examples from
the slut walk. Some depict nudity (breasts) with a purpose, which is not
sexual, by the way. In oder to protect a child from truly sexual images, in
my city, I would have to protect her from newspapers, news stands on the
streets (with their playboy-like magazine advertisement), MTV (with sexual
video clips being shown all day long), movies, carnival in Rio (nude woman
dancing samba being transmitted live on TV). And, of course, I would have
to run away from shopping centers and the metro, where I occasionally see
women with boobs off breastfeeding babies. With so much running and
interdiction, I would raise a neurotic, not a child.

Marília

>
> 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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