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Facebook Censorship Continues

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Yesterday, Mike Arrington posted about potential censorship by Facebook of Moveon.org’s Facebook group that was created in protest of Facebook Beacon. Dustin Moskovitz joined the comment stream to say that this was simply a technical bug. While it may have been, what is not a technic ... Continue reading »

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  • 113.com

    1 year ago

    >Do you think any form of censorship by Facebook is reasonable?

    IMHO, only if required by law then it's perhaps reasonable,
    all others are not acceptable -- even by China standards...
    let alone in the US (if that's any different than China
    in terms of censoring competitor stuff or political reasons).

    But, yes, it's a touchy subject... /ac.
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  • Dominick

    1 year ago

    A TLD is the final part of a domain name, e.g. "com" or "gov", not the whole domain name.

    Any kind of domain name block could be circumvented with redirects, anyway, for example with a tinyurl, or another registered domain name.

    As for the censorship issue, it's Facebook's site, so they can do what they want, even if this is the first step down that slippery slope of total censorship. It's something we should keep an eye on, though, in case it gets stepped up a notch in the future.
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  • Nick O'Neill

    1 year ago

    Oops! Either way they can block the domain name if they really wanted. Misrepresented TLDs. Watch out!
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  • Dan Peguine

    1 year ago

    I think this is silly. Facebook should be confident enough that users will not flock to their competition even if it's advertised on their site.
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  • Jon McMullin

    1 year ago

    Facbook has taken another censorship move, I am a member of Human Pets. It's an online community of "pets" who own each other, and have fun playing, making gifts for each other. Some of them naughty by nature.


    The creator of HP added a membership option, whereby paying members could create and flag items as adult, so only other paying members who chose to view adult items could see them. This solved the pornography issue for 2 months, until today when facebook asked Patrick the creator to remove the option to create adult only items.

    Things will go back to the way they were before, where people would break the rules to create adult items, and risk showing them to minors, and getting banned just to make a few points and have some fun.

    I created a facebook group to protest this backwards thinking censorship they have now implemented.

    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12550629419
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  • Jon McMullin

    1 year ago

    OMG!!!! Facebook has deleted Human Pets entirely!

    Now the creator of Human Pets has a big task ahead of him, he must rebuild Human Pets OUTSIDE of the evil facebook empire.

    I am going through severe social withdrawal right now as I have been a Human Pets addict for the last 6 months!

    Join this facebook group if you want to show your support for a non facebook version of Human Pets.

    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12550629419
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