Instagram deleted a post by Iranian journalist Emadeddin Baghi, a critic of Iran's government, who had nevertheless wrote Soleimani's killing was "contrary to the principles of international law.” Instagram says: "it was complying with US sanctions law."https://codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/instagram-iran-soleimani/ …
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This is fascinating work from
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Avi Asher-Schapiro Retweeted Jillian C. York
This piece provokes a lot of questions about Facebook's interpretation of its legal obligations.
Here's @jilliancyork a leading expert on these things at @EFF weighing in.
And a report on this topic by a bunch of smart people: https://www.eff.org/wp/caught-net-impact-extremist-speech-regulations-human-rights-content …https://twitter.com/jilliancyork/status/1215699066836807680 …
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Legally, as far as our lawyers have said, a company not only doesn't legally have to ban speech that praises a foreign DTO—they don't even have to ban the account of an actual foreign DTO (like Hezbollah, par example)
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