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Nipples, Terrorism, and Sexual Descriptions - Facebook's List of Banned Content

Posted by samzenpus on from the standards-and-practices dept.

Mark Wilson writes Facebook has updated its Community Standards document, outlining the type of content that is not permitted on the social network. When it's not forcing people to reveal their real names, blocking 'offensive' content, or encouraging users to vote, Facebook is often to be found removing content that has been reported for one reason or another. But what's acceptable, and what's not? A little while back, the site revealed a simplified version of its privacy policy, and now the Community Standards document has received the same treatment. Facebook has set out the types of pictures that are permissible, along with specifying guidelines for other content.

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  1. Nipples and terrorism? by Carewolf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Americans...

    1. Re:Nipples and terrorism? by ThatsDrDangerToYou · · Score: 5, Funny
      Hi, I'm from the More Nipples Party and I'm running for president.

      You must admit, my platform is compelling.

    2. Re:Nipples and terrorism? by sycodon · · Score: 5, Informative

      Funny, I looked for that phrase, "political speech", in the text of the 1st...didn't find it.

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      When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
    3. Re:Nipples and terrorism? by bickerdyke · · Score: 5, Insightful

      That's the almost funny thing here.

      The average American poster thinks of their "Free Speech" (other examples that follow the same pattern could be found too) right as a Holy Cow that is invincible, because it is protected by the constitution.

      I had some posters here looking down on, say, Germany as an "undemocratic" country, because there are laws in place that actually limit free speech. (Which is protected by the constitution there, too)

      But, at the bottom line, free speech in the US is even more limited, be it FCC rules, sue-trigger-happy lawyers, facebook EULAs, general politeness - anything down to school district regulations.

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      bickerdyke
  2. I have nipples... by the_skywise · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pam Byrnes: I had no idea you could milk a cat!
    Greg Focker: Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
    Jack Byrnes: [He reacts] I have nipples, Greg, could you milk me?

  3. "Better safe than sorry" right?? by Iamthecheese · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Recently there was a video going around of a racist beating up a child. With some searching I was curiously unable to find the raw video so here is a news article about it. This video was banned from Youtube for "encouraging bullying". When you're claiming presentation of evidence is encouraging the crime you've gone one step too far. It becomes censorship. If we don't see it it hasn't actually happened? The only reason I know about this at all, given youtube taking it down, is the wide news reporting on it. Imagine it were something even more controversial: "senator kicks kitten". Would any news organization report it? Sure if enough people found out about that hypothetical video for the Streisand effect to kick in it would be all over the chans but besides that. And how many of you go to the chans for news anyway? I know I don't.

    The point of all this is that anything sufficiently sufficiently controversial is getting censored in the name of protecting our fragile little minds with a very real, very strong chilling effect. It will be a sad day when I have to make my own website mirrored on Tor to proactively report on anything that might get censored but I can see that day coming.

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    If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.