daisydomino
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I hope it's okay to post this here. I read this article this morning and it made me think of this case and all the social media activity of this convicted murderer.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/facebook-reforms-inmate-account-takedown-process
I like the EFF, but there is all kinds of crazy in that article! I hope that Mr. Zuckerberg has reconsidered his statement, for one thing. Connectivity is a privilege, IMO, and one that can be revoked (along with many other rights and privileges) when a person is in prison, convicted of a felony.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/facebook-reforms-inmate-account-takedown-process
I believe connectivity is a human right, and that if we work together we can make it a reality.Heres a dose of reality: for more than four years, Facebook has been cooperating with state and federal prisons to block inmates from connecting to the networking site without reporting that cooperation in its transparency report.
Inmates typically access Facebook two ways: either they have someone on the outside manage their profiles for them or the inmates access Facebook directly through a contraband cell phone. EFF began engaging Facebook on the issue of inmate accounts in summer 2014, afteran inmate in New Mexico was sentenced to 90 days in solitary confinement because his family posted updates and photos to his Facebook account on his behalf.
Facebook representatives repeatedly told EFF that they only removed inmate profiles when they believed that inmates have violated the social networks community standards, which are part of its Terms of Service (ToS). Specifically, Facebook pointed out that users are not allowed to have third parties access their accounts; so Facebook would suspend an inmates account if staff determined that a profile had been accessed by someone other than the inmate. Facebook said these measures protected the security of the users account. Facebook also said it treated inmate profiles involved in criminal activity or harassment in the same way it handles accounts belonging to users in the free world.
I like the EFF, but there is all kinds of crazy in that article! I hope that Mr. Zuckerberg has reconsidered his statement, for one thing. Connectivity is a privilege, IMO, and one that can be revoked (along with many other rights and privileges) when a person is in prison, convicted of a felony.