Facebook censors Napalm Girl
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Facebook censored the iconic 'Napalm Girl' photo justifying it as preventing child pornography, ignoring the political dimension, illustrating political correctness's sanitizing impulse.
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“Facebook censored the iconic Napalm Girl photo of a terrified nine-year-old girl Vietnamese girl running away from napalm bombs”
“it hypocritically justified this removal as a defense against displaying child nudity, which can even count as child pornography”
“the justification was it can be child pornography nonsense...you mask political censorship as care for morality”
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Nikki Johnson-Huston2Edward Bond2Rodrigo Duterte2Gerhard Schröder1Axel Honneth1David Duke1Tim Dean1Oskar Lafontaine1
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Facebook briefly removed the iconic 'napalm girl' Vietnam War photograph, claiming possible child pornography, when the real motive was political embarrassment. Paradigm of political censorship disguised as moral protection., illustrating digital control,political censorship as moralism