I’m hardly one to feel sympathy for politicians, but this is a good one. Majed Moughni, a Republican candidate for Congress last year in Michigan’s 15th district, is suing Facebook for damages after he lost the election, which he claims happened because his Facebook account was deactivated. Moughni stated: This lawsuit was filed to address […]
Tag: account deactivation
Categories
Flickr and Account Deactivation
For the past year, I’ve written, incessantly perhaps, on the topic of account deactivation, particularly as it pertains to Facebook, the platform which could be considered the worst offender in this space, thanks to their “real name” policy. Thanks to Doc Searls, I recently came across an example of account deactivation on Flickr; now, there […]
At long last, the paper I’ve been working on since (gulp) April is now live on the OpenNet Initiative website: “Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Sphere” tackles the issues of content regulation and account deactivations across five popular social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Blogger). The paper is also available for PDF download […]