Reuters: Technology News: Gory videos OK when posted for users to 'condemn': Facebook

Reuters: Technology News Reuters.com is your source for breaking news, business, financial and investing news, including personal finance and stocks. Reuters is the leading global provider of news, financial information and technology solutions to the world's media, financial institutions, businesses and individuals. // via fulltextrssfeed.com

The Best Way to Manage your Money. Start using Mint today to set a budget, track your goals and do more with your money. From our sponsors

Gory videos OK when posted for users to 'condemn': Facebook Oct 21st 2013, 21:38 Tweet Share this Email Print Reprints The Facebook logo is pictured at the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California January 29, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Robert Galbraith By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO | Mon Oct 21, 2013 5:38pm EDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc has surreptitiously resumed allowing decapitation videos to be posted on its website, lifting a temporary ban it had placed earlier this year on content featuring graphic violence. The world's largest online social network, with 1.15 billion members, said after a report on the BBC on Monday, that gory photos and videos are permitted on its site so long as the content was posted in a manner intended for its users to "condemn" the acts rather than celebrate them. "Facebook has long been a place where people turn to share their experiences, particularly when they're connected to controversial events on the ground, such as human rights abuses, acts of terrorism and other violent events," the company said in a statement. "People share videos of these events on Facebook to condemn them. If they were being celebrated, or the actions in them encouraged, our approach would be different," the statement said. Facebook said it was working on developing new ways to let users control what content they see, including advance warnings that particular images contain graphic violence. The BBC reported that many Facebook users were complaining about a video on the site showing a masked man killing a woman in Mexico. Earlier this year, Facebook placed a temporary ban on content with graphic violence as it examined its policy in the wake of complaints about certain images posted on the website. Facebook's current community standards forbid users from posting information that is threatening to others, as well as content that includes hate speech or is sexually explicit. Groups with a record of violence or criminal activity are not allowed to maintain a presence on the site and Facebook says that "sharing any graphic content for sadistic pleasure is prohibited." (Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz) Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions