[governance] Facebook profiles blocked and content removed in Brazil

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<CAJwbTiCuaqJF6VcfYz0d7o2GvUkcB-H2eKn-EJ6=qoKO+DJcvw at mail.gmail.com>, at 
07:55:35 on Fri, 1 Jun 2012, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro 
<salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> writes

>6.You will not bully, intimidate, or harass any user.

They don't seem very successful at enforcing this, as several 
subscribers have apparently been harassed sufficiently to commit 
suicide.

>7.You will not post content that: is hateful, threatening, or 
>pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or 
>gratuitous violence

Without a definition of "nudity", this is pretty meaningless. Janet 
Jackson had a problem exposing just one nipple, and in the UK more 
recently an artist called Beatrix Von BourBon became notorious for not 
quite exposing either of her nipples. But outside of show business, 
people are often depicted in innocent and non-sexual, but partially 
clothed, contexts.

This tends to remind me of when a website talking about the possibility 
of seeing numerous Parus Major [to use the Latin name] in a country park 
was censored by an over-active local librarian.
-- 
Roland Perry

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