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P0rn is illegal in many countries. Facebook wants to do business in these countries, hence aggressive filtering and minimum liability.
by lukasm 10y ago
P0rn is illegal in many countries. Facebook wants to do business in these countries, hence aggressive filtering and minimum liability.
- wyager 10y agoWomen leaving their faces uncovered is illegal in many countries. This should have zero bearing on what I can do in my own country.
- witty_username 10y agoIt's not "should"; that's how it is. Facebook isn't your country.
- vkou 10y agoIt's also 'illegal' for women to have their faces covered in some countries. Does this mean that there should be no pictures of women on Facebook?
- jacalata 10y agoReally? Where?
- vkou 10y agoBurkas, burkinis in France. (It's a bit more complicated then that, hence the scare quotes.) Depending on who you ask, it's either because of some hand-waved nonsense about public safety, or because liberal Western values include telling women what they can and cannot wear.
- witty_username 10y agoIt's upto Facebook what they want to do.
- DanBC 10y ago> Women leaving their faces uncovered is illegal in many countries. Which countries?
- Symbiote 10y agoAs far as I know, only Afghanistan during the period of Taliban rule, and Daesh until they decided it was a security risk. So: none.
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- jacquesm 10y agoDoes Facebook have a representation in those countries? Besides that, we're not talking about porn. Unless you want to see breast cancer videos and mothers feeding their children as porn but that would be a perception error, the label simply does not apply.
- ptaipale 10y agoFacebook has offices in Dubai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Singapore. These restrict internet pornography by law; even though much of actual Internet traffic may still be porn, businesses do not wish to associate with it because porn could provide a too convenient legal handle to prosecute representatives or shut down services as a retaliation for publishing things that are e.g. critical of the local government. Of course we are not talking about porn, but drawing lines in the sand is a murky business.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoSo there's breast cancer, there's breast feeding, and everything else is porn? That can't be right.
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