“I saw this on my feed and I do not approve please take it off.”
“I don’t believe in this coin. It goes against what I believe in.”
In this way, of course, there is a lot of bad, even corrupting content to be found.
Violations of the Facebook Terms of Service come in many shapes and sizes.
Violations of the Facebook Terms of Service come in many shapes and sizes.
That this can sometimes go
wrong is shown time and again. In 2011, a number of pages of tech companies were closed because someone had complained the seamless integration between activpanel 10 about patent infringement. Instead of investigating the truth of such a complaint (expensive lawyers! – or just laziness?) Facebook prefers to play it safe and turns the knob on the reported pages – even without warning the owners, or mentioning what content it would concern. Then a somewhat vague reference is made to the shaky Statement of Rights and Responsibilities .
“Do you have enemies on Facebook? Facebook is so eager to protect copyright that a simple accusation is enough to get an account shut down.”
2. Prudishness
There was a small scandal about
the removal of an innocent photo of two men kissing – from the popular TV series Eastenders, no less – and a little later about a woman breastfeeding. Most of these scandals ended in virals, campaigns and then a recovery and some vague apologies.Effin
The village of Effin (Ireland) was long banned as a place to live, because it was considered offensive: it could be seen as a balancing creativity and seoeuphemism for “fucking”. Oh well. In 2012, the village was allowed.
3. InsultsArs Technica
Even a step further: Facebook is hypersensitive to offensive content . This makes it very easy for censorship-hungry trolls singapore lead and whiners to strike. This is especially effective when they act in groups: after all, if you get 10 complaints about a user, they MUST be doing something wrong. For example, the page of sex journalist Violet Blue was closed after anti-porn activists complained bitterly, and critics of Islam were removed after members of a fundamentalist group got excited about the non-believers.
