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

[Ivar A. M. Hartmann]

That's a great example! It had slipped my mind. Thank you for poiting it
out!

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:56 AM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Monday, September 17, 2012, Ivar A. M. Hartmann wrote:
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>> I don't believe Twitter or any other profit-seeking corporation makes an
>> effort to protect free speech systematically when it threatens their
>> income. Twitter's strategy of making content removals visible is a business
>> (PR) one, not a human rights protection mechanism.
>> How much transparency is enough transparency is indeed the key question
>> here. This can't be answered in a simple email, but I dare say enough
>> transparency is that which enables full scrutiny of a company or
>> government's actions.
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> Like this:
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> http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/
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> Rgds, McTim
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>> Best,
>> Ivar
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>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg> wrote:
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>>>  The one about Twitter.
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>>> I can understand Twitter claiming transparency, but can't believe for a
>>> moment they are indeed transparent about it (makes no sense).
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>>> If you are not 100% transparent, because that is simply not possible,
>>> how much is "enough"?
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>>> Daniel
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>>> On 17.09.12 15:32, Ivar A. M. Hartmann wrote:
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>>> Which of the two statements are you referring to, Daniel?
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>>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg>wrote:
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>>>> On 17.09.12 04:17, Ivar A. M. Hartmann wrote:
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>>>>> A jail full of dissidents is evidence of repression, but where's the
>>>>> evidence of thousands of deleted posts and pictures? Twitter is for the
>>>>> most part alone in trying to make content removal transparent.
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>>>>  Why you believe this is the case?
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>>>> Daniel
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> Cheers,
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> McTim
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