It used to be that I had to seek out instances of overreaching Facebook censorship. Now, thanks to loads of recent high-profile examples and increased popular interest in the topic, they fall right into my lap. On BoingBoing today, Richard Metzger, a self-described “married, middle-aged man,” writes that he became a spokesman for gay rights […]
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Facebook, like all intermediary hosts of social content, struggles with scalability of its community reporting features. On the platform, users may report content they find to be in violation of the site’s Terms of Service (TOS); they are then presented with five options (in image below): On March 15, AllFacebook.com Editor Jackie Cohen called for, […]
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On Fighting with Words
Apologies for the lack of updates lately. There’s work, then I served on a jury for the better part of a week (yay civic duties!), and now it’s work again. That said, I have had this article open in a tab on my work computer for over two weeks because I couldn’t figure out what […]