Everyone, for now, (except Facebook) has been updating their privacy policies: Google Blogger doesn’t want nudity, neither does Reddit and Twitter has blocked revenge porn. So where does Facebook stand on nudity, firearms and hate speech among others? Facebook has just answered that question in a long blog post, which further refined its “community standards.” Notably, Facebook is not changing its policies or standards. Facebook complies with government and/or legal requests This move just adds light to its existing policies because Facebook removes or blocks content which abides by its “Community Standards” but may violate regional or national laws (read: governments and courts). However, the company says that it “challenges” requests which appear “unreasonable or overbroad (sic)”. It also mentions that there might be some cases where “blocked” local content remains blocked only to users of that region but accessible worldwide and may not be “removed entirely”. Facebook also added that all requests are moderated by humans. In order to report violations on pages, profiles of other content, users need to click the “report” button on the top right corner in the drop down: "We publish this information because we want people to know the extent and nature of the requests we receive from governments and the policies we have in place to process them." Here, we explain in two parts what is allowed and not allowed to be posted on Facebook: Facebook’s Community Guidelines allow: Self-Injury: Info about self-injury or suicide is okay as long as it does not promote or…
