Tom Egeland blocked from Facebook – VG

The author stated that the social media have blocked him from sharing posts in 24 hours.

Tom Egeland let two weeks ago a number of press images of war and conflicts on Facebook, to generate debate about just war images. The following day was the picture of Kim Phuc running naked from bombs during the Vietnam War removed.

Facebook meant that the picture violated guidelines detsosiale medium has for nudity.

After the threaded Egeland criticism from Kim Phuc of Facebook. It resulted in Egeland was blocked from publishing posts on social media.

– Then I thought ‘sky and sea, what are they doing? ” asks the writer, adding:

– The irony and serious with the exclusion is that not only removes the controversial image, but they also removes debate around, and criticism of, Facebooks own handling of the case, says the author.

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Egeland believes that Facebook this way censor debate on Facebook. The author says that it is no longer about war picture, but also the way they manage their regulations.

– Although Facebook is unable to distinguish between pornography and non-sexualized nudity, then it becomes a problem that they do not recognize the debate around this difference, he says.

VG contacted Facebook’s communications manager in Scandinavia Peter Muenster in connection with the first case. He said he would not comment on the case specifically. On a general basis could he say that their rules prohibit all nudity.

When VG contacts Rune Paul Seth in Facebook Norway Monday he shows in Muenster. It has not yet succeeded VG to get a comment from the latter.

The author has not received any other grounds for exclusion than three pop-ups. One explains that he is temporarily blocked from publishing posts because he recently posted which broke with Facebooks guidelines. A explaining that they restrict the display of nudity. The third shows that he can not publish anything until the blockage has expired, as well as the author describes as a threat:

“Remember that people who repeatedly publish things that are not allowed on Facebook, can get their accounts permanently disabled “, it stands in the window that Egeland get up.

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– Facebook is emerging as an anonymous organism

The debate ago Egeland, and more with him, letting out war pictures two weeks ago has gone from just being about image, to act on who decides what can be discussed on Facebook. The author believes that there should be separate editors for the social media.

– They were definitely had named editors that it was possible to complain to, and communicate with. I do not know who has deleted my post and banned me. I do not know if there is an algorithm, one underpaid random person at a call center somewhere in the world or a leader in Facebook in California. Facebook is emerging as a very anonymous organism, says the author.

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Egeland responds that he met with censorship in his criticism, and no answer.

– not only deleted expression of opinions that are critical of Facebook, but now I also punished by being banned. For me personally is not the problem, I live well without Facebook in 24 hours. In principle it is serious because Facebook does not understand the massive criticism directed against them by the thousands of users in Norway and the United States, which has rendered this picture, he says.