[governance] Facebook profiles blocked and content removed in Brazil

[Baudouin SCHOMBE]

Hello Marilia,

I greatly admired your speech in Geneva at the 15th summit of theCSTD. I was
there.
Currently, I conduct a study entitled "Impact of facebook in the
relations between
users."
Can you bring me items or links that can help me further documenton facebook
.
Personally, like you facebook? If so, why, if not why not?


SCHOMBE BAUDOUIN

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2012/5/30 Marilia Maciel <mariliamaciel at gmail.com>

>
> 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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