[governance] Facebook profiles blocked and content removed in Brazil

[Avri Doria]

On 31 May 2012, at 02:52, Roland Perry wrote:

> In message <105F1EC9-631C-49BC-9D01-4E1BAE0B26F4 at acm.org>, at 21:35:40 on Wed, 30 May 2012, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> writes
> 
>> not sure in what world nudity and hate speech fall under the same category.
> 
> Not sure what you mean by "same category", but they are commonly both banned from certain types of communications media in various countries.
> 

That was my point.  When we begin to accept that they are in the same category and that equating them is in any way reasonable, I think we make a big mistake.

Both of these reasons for restricting people's freedom are being grossly abused.  To combine their abuse, and somehow indicate that this is a reasonable thing to do is a really bad idea in my view.

> I refer you to Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" although the jury is still out in the USA regarding the acceptability of the word "Nigger" (although I wouldn't use the word myself other than in a context such as this).

according to the hate speech proponents, using any designation other than the n-word designation is hate speech.  beware.

almost anything is hate speech this days.  and if it isn't hate speech today, give it a chance, it will be hate speech tomorrow.

avri




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