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Re: Facebook Censorship Continues

Jon McMullin — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:56:52 -0000

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

Re: Facebook Censorship Continues

Jon McMullin — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:55:23 -0000

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

Re: Facebook Censorship Continues

DanPeg — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:18:34 -0000

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.

Re: Facebook Censorship Continues

Nick O'Neill — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:55:54 -0000

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

Re: Facebook Censorship Continues

Dominick — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:47:43 -0000

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.

Re: Facebook Censorship Continues

113.com — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:26:45 -0000

>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.