Tuesday 3 December 2013

Facebook and the Beheading Video

Facebook's contentious censor policy


Beginning of the year Facebook removed a video on its site which showed the beheading of a woman in Mexico due to the mounting complaints of relatives, rights groups, business circles, politicians and parts of the general public. In October Facebook allowed the video back on arguing the video was shown to condemn the violence. End of that month Facebook banned the video again under the mounting pressure. Facebook prohibits nudity, drug use and pornography on its site. It also bans the glorification of violent content but pursuits a case-by-case strategy in order to accommodate the condemnation of violence. 

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