[governance] Facebook profiles blocked and content removed in Brazil

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Avri Doria <avri at ella.com> wrote:

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


> There was no mention of equating them. I simply pointed to the exceptions
> according to how Article 19 was crafted and the tests therein. Countries
> differ on their laws, and on what they perceive to be public morality.
>


> Both of these reasons for restricting people's freedom are being grossly
> abused.

Do you mean the abuse of the exceptions in Article 19 of the ICCPR?

 To combine their abuse, and somehow indicate that this is a reasonable
> thing to do is a really bad idea in my view.
>
> I am unsure of what you are referring too.

> > 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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