Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Sphere, Jillian C. York, The OpenNet Initiative (ONI), November 2010
“Online conversations today exist primarily in the realm of social media and blogging platforms, most of which are owned by private companies. Such privately owned platforms now occupy a significant role in the public sphere, as places in which ideas and information are exchanged and debated by people from every corner of the world. Instead of an unregulated, decentralized Internet, we have centralized platforms serving as public spaces: a quasi-public sphere. This quasi-public sphere is subject to both public and private content controls spanning multiple jurisdictions and differing social mores…This paper will highlight the practices of fiveplatformsFacebook, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and Bloggerin regard to TOS and account deactivations. It will highlight each companys user policies, as well as examples of each companys procedures for policing content.”
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