21 September 2016: The Weekly Takedown
by | Sep 21 2016
- LONG READ: In France, antiracists are the latest target of Facebook. In their analysis, La Quadrature du Net looks at the effect of public-private partnerships on online censorship.
- NSFW: Onlinecensorship.org co-founder Jillian York looks at different ways that Facebook could lessen the effect of its nudity ban on users.
- CENSORED: A Maori tattoo artist was banned from Facebook after he posted a video of his work, which included the traditional Maori tattoo of the buttocks.
- SPEECH!: The Norwegian editor of Aftenposten, who found himself censored on Facebook, has called on Mark Zuckerberg to discuss censorship more openly.
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