Norway's Largest Newspaper Accuses Mark Zuckerberg of Abusing Power After Facebook Deletes 'Napalm Girl' Post (theguardian.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday September 9, 2016 @02:10AM from the powerful-editor dept.

An anonymous shares a report on The Guardian:Norway's largest newspaper has published a front-page open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, lambasting the company's decision to censor a historic photograph of the Vietnam war and calling on Zuckerberg to recognize and live up to his role as "the world's most powerful editor." Espen Egil Hansen, the editor-in-chief and CEO of Aftenposten, accused Zuckerberg of thoughtlessly "abusing your power" over the social media site that has become a lynchpin of the distribution of news and information around the world, writing, "I am upset, disappointed -- well, in fact even afraid -- of what you are about to do to a mainstay of our democratic society. I am worried that the world's most important medium is limiting freedom instead of trying to extend it, and that this occasionally happens in an authoritarian way," he said. The controversy stems from Facebook's decision to delete a post by Norwegian writer Tom Egeland that featured The Terror of War, a Pulitzer prize-winning photograph by Nick Ut that showed children -- including the naked 9-year-old Kim Phuc -- running away from a napalm attack during the Vietnam war. Egeland's post discussed "seven photographs that changed the history of warfare" -- a group to which the "napalm girl" image certainly belongs.

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So what? by 110010001000 · 2016-09-09 02:13 · Score: 0, Troll

So what? Every fucking newspaper has censored things throughout history. They pick and choose what they want to show the public. They write "opinions" instead of factual articles. Now it is biting them in the ass because they don't have control over what is published and they don't like it. Welcome my friend to the Machine.
We must by Anonymous Coward · 2016-09-09 02:18 · Score: -1, Troll

We must accept that the world is changing.
We must accept that it's time for Western Civilization to take a back seat.
We must accept that virtue of its population and history, China must lead the world on Democracy, and trust the leaders to do the right thing in guiding the rest of the world.
We must accept that Islam, and it's population is growing at a very fast pace. As such, in the interest of peace, we must re-evaluate Women's Rights and how they fit in with Islam. We must accept that, in fact, they should be subjugated for the greater peace of the world.
Above and beyond all else, we must accept failure, and embrace the humility of failure. For being confident, resolute, and stedfast is a path to conflict. ALL LIVES MATTER.