[governance] Re: Facebook and the nipplegate: New Yorker temporarily banned

[Marilia Maciel]

Hi Bill,

What is more important than what is a highly arguable, and, in my opinion,
fruitless debate. Ask any woman who has been engaged in activism on sexual
and reproductive rights the importance of this globally omnipresent
company's censorship on the word "vagina".

In addition, in my opinion, private censorship can be much more dangerous
exactly because they do not come from imposition (rough power), but from
soft power. To organize and resist soft power and to distinguish where "the
enemy lies" is much harder. Conservative ideas get embedded in our minds
before we have the chance to question them. It is certainly easier to
identify that "chinese firewall is bad".

I hope we learn to split our attention among these important cases of
censorship more wisely.

Marília

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 4:24 PM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:

> Maybe because the cases pale in comparison to the types of repression said
> FoE fighters tend to focus on, and because people can mobilize to redress
> them if they care enough without having to resort to intergovernmental
> politics?
>
> Bill
>
> On Sep 16, 2012, at 21:07, Marilia Maciel <mariliamaciel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> More censorship. From Apple, this time. I wonder why FoE fighters do not
> seem to care as much when censorship comes from the private sector, which
> has a much more subtle (and efficient) way to affect standards of right,
> wrong and morality.
>
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/sep/13/naomi-wolf-vagina-apple-itunes-censors
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Marilia Maciel <mariliamaciel at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> A funnier way to continue the discussion about FB policy and their
>> awkward views on nudity.
>>
>>
>> http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonists/2012/09/nipplegate-why-the-new-yorker-cartoon-department-is-about-to-be-banned-from-facebook.html?currentPage=all
>>
>>
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>>
>
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