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“Facebook no teme a los Gobiernos, pero sí a perder a sus usuarios”
("Facebook is not afraid of governments, but is afraid of losing its users")
Newspaper | El País
Date | 17.5.2017
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | censorship, privacy, research/study, social media, threat
Summary | Interview of the historian and journalist Timothy Garton. He talks about people's use of internet and how they can spread lies and truths. Private data, lies, truths, vigilance, and hatred circulate online. Garton claims that regarding freedom of speech, things are worse than before. According to Garton, it is part of what he calls a global anti-liberal counterrevolution. The enemies of freedom of speech are: states, and private superpowers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon, Apple. Indeed, they also control what we see and do not see. When states and those superpowers come together, things can become dangerous.
Image Description | Photograph of Timothy Garton
Image Tags | male(s)
Tailandia logra censurar en Facebook un vídeo de su rey
(Thailand was able to censor a video of its king on Facebook)
Newspaper | El País
Date | 19.5.2017
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook, law
Summary | Thailand asked Facebook to withdraw 131 pages that contain "illegal" content (i.e. pages that violate strict laws concerning the royal family). Indeed, the royal family should not be criticized. One of the videos posted online showed the current king, Maha Vajiralongkorn, displaying his tattooed back and arms. Facebook accepted to withdraw the illegal content.
Image Description | Photograph of a Facebook profile with the picture of Mark Zuckerberg.
Image Tags | Facebook, male(s)
Las reglas secretas de Facebook para moderar contenido violento, sexual y amenazas racistas
(Facebook's secret rules for moderating violent, sexual content, and racist threats)
Newspaper | El País
Date | 22.5.2017
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | censorship, cyberbullying, Facebook
Summary | The Guardian revealed secret documents about Facebook's rules to filter its violent/racist/sexist content. The guide provides recommendations for various types of content: child abuse, threats of violence, or acts of animal cruelty. Facebook also believes that death videos should have a warning sign but they should not always be deleted because they can "raise awareness about mental problems". Recently, Facebook had to respond to various complaints concerning some content that was made public: the photograph of a naked girl victim of the Vietnam War, and the live broadcast of the murder of a man in Cleveland.
Image Description | Photograph of Mark Zuckerberg
Image Tags | male(s)
¿Limitan los emoticonos nuestra capacidad de expresión?
(Do emojis limit our capacity to express ourselves?)
Newspaper | El País
Date | 27.10.2016
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, translation
Summary | The fact that Fred Benenson translated Moby Dick in emojis actually reflects the importance of emojis in today's society. Our keyboards can already offer emoji alternatives to written words. After thousands of years of progress, are we regressing back to the Egyptian time? Some people fear that the rise of emoji might limit our capacity to express ourselves and lead us to simplicity. Those who defend emojis claim that they are the natural result of the evolution of communication.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone; on the screen there is a text conversation with emojis
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), smartphone, text
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