• Art: After a series of artistic nude photographs was deleted from Instagram and Facebook, photographer Matt Hamon engaged in unorthodox methods of protest to the platforms’ nudity policy.  
  • User Not Found: Feline non grata: Facebook suspends the account of an Indian tech blogger after he shares a photo of a cat. The platform later apologized.
  • Speech: #Zuxit: The administrators of over 100 Facebook pages used by meme creators coordinated a three-day blackout to protest what they claim is selective censorship and a lack of content policy transparency.
  • NSFW: French breast cancer awareness campaign is suspended from Facebook for showing female nipples.

Further reads:

  • How censorship is killing the spirit of social media.
  • Abuse is rampant on Twitter, but Buzzfeed reports how Twitter’s content moderation policy towards abusive tweets depends on the level of public outcry.
     
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mathana Stender

Matthew Stender, Project Strategist for onlinecensorship.org, is a Tech Ethicist, focusing on the ethical and cultural implications of emerging technology. His research focuses on algorithm transparency, network bias and freedom of expression online, as well as political and socio-cultural dynamics of censorship by social media networks.