Tag: Policy

Reddit Wants No Part of the Next Fappening
Last year, hundreds of nude images of celebrities were stolen off the cloud and passed around various internet channels including 4chan and reddit. The latter, being a much more ma...
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Marijuana Legalization Was Facebook’s Most-Discussed Topic on Election Day
On Election Day, with hotly contested House, Senate, and Gubernatorial races happening all over the country, social media chatter was turned up to 11. According to Facebook, Tuesda...
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Twitter Now Removes Images of the Dead Upon Request
In some circumstances, upon request of the family, Twitter will now...
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Twitter Says It’ll Work on Its Anti-Abuse Policies
In the aftermath of Robin Williams' death, his daughter Zelda was...
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Google Abandons Real Name Policy for Google+, Apologizes for the Confusion
After years of complaints from users, Google has finally caved and dropped the real name policy that governed Google+, which in turn affected many other Google entities. In an a...
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Apple’s iPhone Return Window Shrinks to 14 Days
For a while now, Apple has allowed customers to return any iPhone they purchased 30 days ago or less at an official Apple store (or online)–considering the phone wasn't screwed up...
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Facebook Clarifies Policy on Graphic Content
Facebook says that when it comes to graphic, violent content posted on the site, they're going to start taking a more "holistic" approach. We told you earlier this week that Fa...
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Facebook Reverses Ban on Graphic Beheading Videos [UPDATED]
UPDATE: Facebook confirmed that users can share these types of videos as long as they're not encouraging the activity, and a spokesperson also told me that the com...
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Facebook to Pull All Ads from Pages with ‘Violent, Graphic, or Sexual Content’
Starting next Monday, if you operate a page or group that contains any violent, graphic, or sexual content, you're going on Facebook's blacklist for ads. In an effort to assure...
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Facebook Allows Mastectomy Photos Following Public Outcry, Petition
Facebook has a breast phobia. Anyone who's attempted to post art,...
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Facebook Won’t Pull Shockingly Graphic Indian Prostitution Page [UPDATED]
UPDATE: It looks like Facebook has removed the page, as I thought they would. But it was still active for a long time, and Facebook did delay in yanking it even af...
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Pinterest Will Soon Allow Nudity, As Long As It’s Artistic
Pinterest, like many other social sites, has had to deal with an unavoidable amount of nudity, porn, and the battle between the two. Is a bare breast considered pornographic? I don...
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Facebook Officially Kills the User Vote
Yesterday the voting period ended on Facebook's third and final Site Governance vote, and we told you that the results overwhelmingly supported keeping the current SSR and Data Use...
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Facebook Just Eliminated Voting That Doesn’t Matter with a Vote That Didn’t Matter
And with that, Facebook's tepid attempt at democracy comes to a close. Voting is over in Facebook's third (and final)...
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Facebook Site Governance Vote on Pace to Break One Million Participants
The third-ever Facebook Site Governance vote is on pace to shatter previous rec...
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