Comments on: Banned From Facebook: Womens’ Rights Ukranian Civil Disobedience Group FEMEN

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 03:35:12 +0000

For what it’s worth, I do work for Google via a staffing company, and was recently treated to an email (excerpt below) containing policy revisions regarding flagging websites and images as being pornographic. Seems that pretty much any nudity is porn in Google’s world – I wonder, does someone doing anatomy homework have to sift through real pornography in order to get a diagram of the Human body?

“Dear Raters,

We have made changes to the porn section of the Image Utility instructions.

Previously, we may have unintentionally implied that images of bare female breasts, bare male and female genitals, and bare male and female buttocks must have clear porn intent or intent to arouse to be flagged as porn.

We have removed the “clear porn intent or intent to arouse to be flagged as porn” language.
Unless those bare body parts are pieces of art, are displayed in cultures where it is part of their everyday life to do so, etc., they should be flagged as porn.

Raters may have neglected to assign porn flags to some images that deserve them, and we are now asking you to carefully read the Porn section of the Image Utility instructions.”

By: Harold

Harold — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 03:34:50 +0000

I would turn it around: what companies _haven’t_ banned some sexuality-related people? I can think only of Twitter and a certain image site used by amateur photographers, and with their new CEO I expect Twitter to take up the banhammer. I think you’ll see similar results from any sizable organization, no matter how determined the founders. If a group wants to address a big enough market, they have to cater to the most conservative denominator or risk attack from chain e-mails and talking heads. Greed, for lack of a better word, is god, and very few can resist that religion.

By: Odysseus93

Odysseus93 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 02:57:42 +0000

Hey Violet.
Your right of course, but is there any place else to go? anywhere? I think I wrote about this before, in that all the good, talented, outspoken folk that want to air their views in an open forum are the very tech savvy people who could create something to which you, me, and others aspire, i.e., a fair and open forum. Facebook and the rest of the conglomerates aren’t going to give it up. It does seem to be the season for revolution all over the place, perhaps it’s time for one in social-networking land.

Was there any discussion of this st SXSW this year? Is there any plan, idea, motivation even to fight back. Just thinking and wishing…