[governance] Facebook profiles blocked and content removed in Brazil

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:

>
> On 30 May 2012, at 21:17, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:
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> > Article 3 (7) on Facebook's Terms "You will not post content that: is
> hateful, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity
> or graphic or gratuitous violence."
> > This is in line with the exceptions under Article 19 of the ICCPR as
> explained by La Rue .Facebook Terms are found here:
> http://www.facebook.com/legal/terms and most countries laws prohibit hate
> speech, nudity etc.
>
>
> not sure in what world nudity and hate speech fall under the same category.


The US apparently, see: *Miller v California* 413 U.S. 15 (1973) , *United
States v. Thomas*, 74 F.3d 701 (6th Cir. 1996)

"Even Wikipedia discusses how these varies from country to country, see "The
definition of what exactly constitutes an obscenity differs from
culture<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture> to
culture, between communities <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community> within
a single culture, and also between individuals within those communities.
Many cultures have produced laws <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law> to
define what is considered to be obscene, and
censorship<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship> is
often used to try to suppress or control materials that are obscene under
these definitions: usually including, but not limited to,
pornographic<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography>material.
As such censorship restricts freedom of expression, crafting a legal
definition of obscenity presents a civil
liberties<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_liberties> issue."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscenity

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