censorship
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Facebook Censorship: Which Images Passed (And Failed) The Nudity Test?
6While Facebook and Instagram make their stances on naked flesh relatively clear, where and when they enact their nipple and nudity censorship have become infamously arbitrary. These examples — from Picasso artworks (banned) to Kim Kardashian nudes (allowed) — show just how arbitrary the policy is.
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Google Content Removal Requests In Australia: Not Much To See Here
Google’s latest Transparency Report shows an uptick in the number of requests by government agencies to be removed, but the total number is still low. The big lesson? When you’re assembling a list of issues to worry about, content removal requests will be low on the list.
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Twitter Transparency Report: The Australian Government Doesn’t Care Much
Twitter has emulated Google and released a transparency report disclosing how often it has been asked for user information by national governments in the first six months of 2012. The Australian government and legal system apparently hasn’t engaged with Twitter much yet, having made fewer than 10 requests for user information over that time.
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Conroy Anti-Gouging, But Still Pro-Censorship
Bugger. Just when Senator Stephen Conroy got back into our good books with the long-overdue inquiry into price gouging, he gets all gung-ho and says the internet filter censorship plan is still actively moving forward with new developments “soon”. Stephen, oh Stephen, when will you learn?