A hard line for hardliners?
The Iranian government’s ambivalence toward social media platforms was recently put on display during a conflict with the photo-sharing site Instagram. Just days before the 26th anniversary of...
View ArticleFacebook's guide to being a lady
Learning how to act like a lady online is hard. Revealing swimsuits and underwear are okay, unless you happen to be plus-sized. Breastfeeding wasn’t okay to show, but now it is. Body hair is...
View ArticleBetween religion and the right to free expression
The violent attacks on French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo last January only served to reinvigorate support for free expression, with many public figures and celebrities expressing support for the...
View ArticleSocial media, news, and the right to know
The idea for Onlinecensorship.org was born in 2011, when Facebook took down a link posted by popular band Coldplay. The link, deemed “abusive” by the social network, was to a song of protest for...
View ArticleFacebook’s disappearing act
On Friday, November 20th, I shared a link on my Facebook wall. It was a short film made by a Venezuelan filmmaker, María Eugenia Morón, who intended to fictionalize the alleged conditions of political...
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