We are only demanding that Facebook apply its existing content policy rules to women fairly. The fact is, the threat of violence silences women every day — on and offline. For example, content considered worthy of removal at Facebook for being unsafe must threaten “imminent harm.” “Imminent harm” is a luxury for women who experience rape and domestic violence as pervasive threats. The notion of imminent harm will never be equally applicable to men and women as a baseline criterion, as long as we live in a world where women feel far less safe than men . In the United States, for example, men are 25% more likely to feel safe walking in public at night then women are. We don’t live at the OK Corral.
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Facebook Advertises That You Can Turn Off Home “If You Need Some Alone Time”
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Facebook Moves to Verify Accounts of Public Figures
Facebook launched “Verified Pages” to help people find the authentic accounts of celebrities and other high-profile people and businesses on the social network. Facebook rolled out what it calls Verified Pages and Profiles on Wednesday. Sound familiar? If so, it’s because Twitter rolled out its “verified accounts” program back in June 2009, to protect the reputations of celebrities, athletes, and other public figures and agencies.
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