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Civil Liberties

Facebook Censorship Proposed Down Under

Australia targets "hate speech" in social media

Reason Staff | 8.10.2012 9:52 PM

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Australian MPs have started to call for legislative powers to compel social networks to swiftly remove offensive content, after Facebook failed to act decisively to remove a page containing numerous racist stereotypes of Australian aboriginals.

Facebook initially did nothing about the page, which disappeared briefly and then resurfaced marked as "controversial humour".

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