Dear Charles Ess You can use the example of Fazıl Say, a famaous Turkish pianist, received a jail penalty because of retweeting a poem from Omer Hayyam. He was sued according to Penalty Code. In deed his tweet/retweet in thiscase was just expression of idea. -- Prof.Dr. Mutlu Binark Baskent Universitesi Iletisim Fakultesi Radyo-Tv. ve Sinema Blm. Bagl�ca Kampusu Eskisehir Yolu 20.km. 06530 Ankara Tel: (312) 246 6652-53 Fax: (312) 246 66 57 www.yenimedya.wordpress.com www.dijitaloyun.wordpress.com alternatifbilisim.tv
I guess one good parallel could be Weibo censorship. There was a good empirical paper published to First Monday last year that documented deletions: http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3943/3169
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Charles Ess <charles.ess@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear AoIRists,
I've been asked to develop a presentation on the future of freedom of expression in online environments, including discussion of multiple ways in which - in addition to whatever governments may be up to in different contexts and ways - the private enterprises that increasingly dominate and control much of our online spaces and infrastructures censor political speech and expression.
One example passed on to me was of a well-established professional in a European country (i.e., not fitting the profile of terrorist, anarchist, or even leftist) who posted comments on his/her SNS page critical of the U.S. These comments disappeared from the page without notice or explanation.
I would be very grateful for: 1) recommendations for careful studies of such events and phenomena which include reliable documentation of their occurrence? (Yes, I realize that documenting and studying such episodes would be extremely tricky and difficult.) And/or 2) well documented anecdotes or examples (e.g., as reported in a reliable newspaper of record) of such episodes?
Please send these along offlist. I will, of course, more than happily credit the sources and authors of any examples and resources collected and used for the presentation (unless anonymity is requested instead).
Many thanks in advance, - charles ess
Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/>
University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: c.m.ess@media.uio.no
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