[Air-L] Corporate censorship of political discourse?

[F. Mutlu Binark]

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.

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> 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 at 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 at media.uio.no
>>
>>
>>
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