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paulzolo

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Editor in Chief of Aftenposten, Facebook and Vietnam Photo


	Quote: I follow you on Facebook, but you don’t know me. I am editor-in-chief of the Norwegian daily newspaper Aftenposten. I am writing this letter to inform you that I shall not comply with your requirement to remove a documentary photography from the Vietnam war made by Nick Ut.

http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/komm ... 4156b.html

You, of course, know the photo he’s referring to. It’s this:

Now, given the other thread about the Belfast girl’s photo and FaceBook, I think this is a rather interesting contrast. It seems that FaceBook can work rather quickly, and aggressively, if they want to.


	Quote: The demand that we remove the picture came in an e-mail from Facebook’s office in Hamburg this Wednesday morning. Less than 24 hours after the e-mail was sent, and before I had time to give my response, you intervened yourselves and deleted the article as well as the image from Aftenposten’s Facebook page.

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	Quote: Tom [Norwegian author Tom Egeland who posted the article] then rendered Kim Phuc’s [the naked girl in the photo, fleeing the napalm] criticism against Facebook for banning her picture. Facebook reacted by excluding Tom and prevented him from posting a new entry.

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Fri Sep 09, 2016 10:42 am

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Re: Editor in Chief of Aftenposten, Facebook and Vietnam Pho

That's the sort of thing I was talking about - they're deliberately inconsistent at best, actively profiting from clicks around beheadings at worst.

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Fri Sep 09, 2016 12:29 pm

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Re: Editor in Chief of Aftenposten, Facebook and Vietnam Pho

'Facebook needs an editor': media experts urge change after photo dispute | Technology | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... censorship

If FB really is news central for many (dear love us), then it would totally be in it's interest to mix that with the usual gimpery on there - having every shade of fact and fiction would enable the data metrics they crave like never before.

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Re: Editor in Chief of Aftenposten, Facebook and Vietnam Pho

Facebook restores iconic Vietnam war photo it censored for nudity

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