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	Censorship in Facebooks?

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11-23-2007 3:47 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9a3ad796-894a-47d4-bc92-bfe751672e20/DCF427D6-161A-4887-83C0-DAF88736C60F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogoramification.blogspot.com/2007/11/censorship-in-facebooks.html" href="http://blogoramification.blogspot.com/2007/11/censorship-in-facebooks.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blogoramification.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogoramification.blogspot.com/2007/11/censorship-in-facebooks.html"><DIV>Earlier this month, I read a <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/facebook-censors-ron-paul/" linkindex="4">post</A> in which a reporter searching for, Ron Paul, the candidate for the American presidential election, into Facebook's groups couldn't get any results.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogoramification.blogspot.com/2007/11/censorship-in-facebooks.html"><DIV>Tuesday, a large number of major media ( <A href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119560466428899897-9XRA4XmBETuYnPhd3RuSQr5HKPs_20071221.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top" linkindex="5">WSJ</A>, <A href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/moveon-takes-on-facebook/" linkindex="6">NYT</A>, <A href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-facebook21nov21,1,2142037.story?coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=1&cset=true" linkindex="7">LATimes</A>, <A href="http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9821170-36.html" linkindex="8">CNET</A>, <A href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/21/technology/NA-TEC-US-Facebook-Ads.php" linkindex="9">AP</A>, etc.) and bloggers have pointed out a problem with the privacy of the new Facebook's advertising platform. <A href="http://civ.moveon.org/" linkindex="10">MoveOn.org</A> led <A href="http://civ.moveon.org/facebookprivacy/071120email.html" linkindex="11">the response</A> by creating a petition to ask Facebook not to use users personal information without their consent.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogoramification.blogspot.com/2007/11/censorship-in-facebooks.html"><DIV>Yesterday, a search of the word "privacy" in Facebook groups gave an error message meaning that results were unavailable. But at the same time, other search results showed normally.Groups research later eventually came back, but still, no MoveOn which has the word "privacy" evident in the title. Another research reported 17 results, but only the first 16 were visible. Without MoveOn, the seventeenth being strangely absent.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DCF427D6-161A-4887-83C0-DAF88736C60F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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