[governance] About Facebook blocked and content removed in Brazil

Tue Jun 5 16:31:09 EDT 2012

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Marilia Maciel <mariliamaciel at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Jacqueline Morris <
> jam at jacquelinemorris.com> wrote:
>
>> Facebook isn't public. It's a private site with terms and conditions to
>> which one agrees before joining.
>
>
> The double standard that applies to platforms such as FB and Twitter is
> very interesting. When they are used in contexts such as the arab spring or
> the iranian revolution as platforms to fight and overthrown governments
> that we (the West) do not appreciate, then western governments, the media
> and civil society start to emphasize the public role of these private
> platforms, as enablers of free expression and political rights. When Obama
> called Twitter to postpone the maintenance of their website, so that
> protesters were not deprived of the platform on a crucial moment of the
> revolution, everybody seemed to be ok with the intrusion of the political
> interests of a particular government in the work methods of a private
> company.
>
> Out of these specific contexts above, the dominant rethoric implies that
> FB is a simple private platform, as "innocent" and unimportant to world
> politics as if it were still merely a collection of "faces" and "book of
> contacts" of one's best friends. The platform is more than that. The fact
> that it is becoming so important to interpersonal communication,
> expression, and political mobilization in a cross-border fashion makes it a
> private-owned platform of public interest and it must be treated
> accordingly. Zuckerberg and his best friends should not be entitled to make
> crucial decisions all alone and to enforce regulation that touches upon
> privacy and FoE, to name a few, as they do, across-borders. There should be
> mechanisms of accountability.  FB grew in importance and owners' bank
> accounts grew in zeros. This success comes with a price: higher standards
> of transparency and accountability. As was said on the other thread, the
> more the platform becomes widely used for worldwide communication, the
> narrower should be the freedom of FB board to do whatever they like without
> democratic ways of discussion.
>
> When it comes to unilateral contracts, free will to negotiate is hampered.
> And when it comes to platforms of strong monopolistic tendency, such as FB,
> accepting these unilateral contracts (terms of use) can be far from being
> an option, but a pre-rquisite to fully engage on communication in the
> public sphere.
>

As Bertrand pointed out Facebook is inviting input in the Facebook Site
Governance Vote Site, see:
https://www.facebook.com/fbsitegovernance/app_130362963766777

Voting Started on June 1, 2012 and ends in June 8, 2012

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> Marília
>
>
>
>>
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>>
>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Rui Correia <correia.rui at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> 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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