[governance] Facebook profiles blocked and content removed in Brazil

[Norbert Bollow]

parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> Jac, your misgivings about how civ soc will be able to influence things 
> are understandable. But it is not that with turning of a switch the 
> regulatory order will shift from the national to the global level.  In 
> making the demands for democratising global IG what is expected is 
> rather a complex interplay of global and national level of politics - 
> with certain degrees of government-ish authorities and corresponding 
> role and participative-ness of civ soc - as is appropriate to the 
> complex global-national nature of the Internet. There is no alternative 
> to such a layered national-global system

Hmm... can you explain how the "layered national-global system"
concept would work in practice?

Suppose that someone who is not aware of what the Facebook ToS says
exactly (as we all know, most people don't read ToS statements in
detail, much less remember the details of whatever parts of the ToS
they may actually have read) posts a "slut walk" picture on their
"facebook profile", and Facebook Inc reacts by deactivating that
"facebook profile" without warning. (Note to those who are familiar
with Facebook's recent actions: I'd appreciate if information could
be posted please about what actions, if any, Facebook Inc has taken
to warn people who violate Facebook's nudity rule about the rule and
about what it means - for example, non-native speakers of English
could easily misunderstand "nudity" as referring only to being fully
nude.)

How would the "layered national-global system" decide whether the
"facebook profile" is a means of communication to which the protection
of correspondence of Article 17(1) of the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights [1] applies, and whether deactivating that
"facebook profile" without warning constitutes forbidden interference
with such correspondence???
[1] http://idgovmap.org/map/treaty/ICCPR

Greetings,
Norbert

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