Facebook Censored Live Stream Video Posted by Dakota Pipeline Protesters
September 15th, 2016Via: The Verge:
Facebook has admitted to censoring a video posted by activists protesting the Dakota Access pipeline, with the social network blaming the removal on its automated spam filter. The live stream video, published on Tuesday by the media collective Unicorn Riot, showed police arresting around two dozen protesters at a Dakota pipeline site. Unicorn Riot published a link to the live stream on its Facebook page, but the URL was blocked and other users were unable to share it. The link has since been restored, and a Facebook spokesperson apologized for the removal in a statement to Motherboard.
In a statement to Antimedia, a member of Unicorn Riot said that the video was censored “shortly before two of our journalists were arrested onsite,” adding that posts and comments that contained the URL “triggered popup security alerts.” According to the collective, Facebook’s debugger said that the link violated the site’s “community standards.”
Each time I read about censorship via the internet, I am reminded that this must of been the normal procedure of all major news sources prior to the internet or they would all be screaming against it each time it occurs now.
I often wonder who these “employees” are who facilitate this censorship? How much money does it take to have a citizen do this job?
I guess the same thing might be asked how much the security apparatus needs to pay these guards to thump people mercilessly on the head for the act of peacefull protest?
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Ditto.
When I see a national newspaper fail to cover a story of misappropriation of a million plus by a local climate scientist, and its political antithesis attacking the country’s (quite successful) anti-corruption body, and the tabloid marketed to the working class repeatedly ridiculing the independent mayor of the country’s economic capital whom the public keep voting in (leaving the major political parties on the outside), I’m left wondering what the necessary qualifications for the job of news editor really are these days, and who they’re answerable to.