12 October 2016: The Weekly Takedown
by Jillian C. York | Oct 12 2016
SPEECH: Facebook has deleted a parody account in order to avoid being blocked by the Brazilian government.
USER NOT FOUND: “There has been mass purge of Kashmiri accounts” on Facebook, says Mohammad Junaid, a founder of the Kashmiri Solidarity Network.
CENSORED: A new Change.org petition calls on Facebook to stop censoring the accounts of black and trans activists.
LONG READ: The Atlantic’s latest cover story asks if a future conflict could lead the US government to censor the social media industry as Abraham Lincoln did the national telegraph system.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jillian C. York
Jillian C. York is a writer and activist whose work lies at the intersection of technology and policy. Based in Berlin, she serves of the Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where she works on issues of free expression, privacy, and digital security.
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