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BJP MPs Want Shashi Tharoor Out As Panel Chief Over Facebook Summons Row
The battle over the Facebook row heated up today with a call for removal of Shashi Tharoor as the chief of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology. While the BJP's Nishikant Dubey wrote to Speaker Om Birla, demanding that he be removed, Rajyavardhan Rathore also pitched in with a letter, accusing Mr Tharoor of "flouting rules...
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Facebook Executives Feel The Heat Of Content Controversies
After Facebook's removal of an iconic Vietnam war photo stirred an international uproar last month, the social network's executives quickly backtracked and cleared its publication.
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Facebook Pic of Dad Cradling Baby in Shower Goes Viral, Prompts Debate
A picture of a father cradling his ill son in the shower has prompted a debate after it was removed by Facebook for violating their nudity policy. Before being taken down, the photo went viral with over 31,700 shares and opinion was sharply divided on whether it was inappropriate or a beautiful moment between a father and his child.
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Kerala Police Officer Merin Joseph Battles Controversy Over Facebook Photo With Actor
On Sunday, moments after a police officer in Kerala posted her picture with popular southern actor Nivin Pauly on Facebook, it went viral. Merin Joseph, assistant commissioner of police, got thousands of 'likes', but far less admiring were media reports that alleged a violation of protocol.
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Now, Bangladesh temporarily blocks Facebook
Bangladesh on Saturday temporarily blocked the social network Facebook amid demands by a radical organisation to ban the website for hurting sentiments of Muslims.No official comment was immediately available for the closure of the popular network. However, an official source on condition of anonymity said that the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regu...
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Facebook changes privacy tools
Amid mounting criticism that it is betraying the trust of its users, world's largest social networking site Facebook on Thursday overhauled its privacy controls under which the amount of information that is always visible to others will be reduced.In an hour-long news conference at its Palo Alto headquarters in California, Facebook's 26-year-old CE...
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Facebook page that led to Pak ban removed
A Facebook page that was considered offensive to Islam and led to a Pakistani ban on the site has been removed, possibly by its creator.Facebook said on Friday that it has not taken any action on the page, which had attracted more than 100,000 users and encouraged users to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, purportedly in support of freedom o...
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Pak court orders temporary blocking of Facebook
A Pakistani court on Wednesday ordered authorities to temporarily block social networking website Facebook following a controversy over a competition on blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Mohammad on the site.Justice Ijaz Choudhry of the Lahore High Court issued the order in response to a petition filed by the Islamic Lawyers Movement seeking a ban...
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BJP MPs Want Shashi Tharoor Out As Panel Chief Over Facebook Summons Row
The battle over the Facebook row heated up today with a call for removal of Shashi Tharoor as the chief of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology. While the BJP's Nishikant Dubey wrote to Speaker Om Birla, demanding that he be removed, Rajyavardhan Rathore also pitched in with a letter, accusing Mr Tharoor of "flouting rules...
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Facebook Executives Feel The Heat Of Content Controversies
After Facebook's removal of an iconic Vietnam war photo stirred an international uproar last month, the social network's executives quickly backtracked and cleared its publication.
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Facebook Pic of Dad Cradling Baby in Shower Goes Viral, Prompts Debate
A picture of a father cradling his ill son in the shower has prompted a debate after it was removed by Facebook for violating their nudity policy. Before being taken down, the photo went viral with over 31,700 shares and opinion was sharply divided on whether it was inappropriate or a beautiful moment between a father and his child.
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Kerala Police Officer Merin Joseph Battles Controversy Over Facebook Photo With Actor
On Sunday, moments after a police officer in Kerala posted her picture with popular southern actor Nivin Pauly on Facebook, it went viral. Merin Joseph, assistant commissioner of police, got thousands of 'likes', but far less admiring were media reports that alleged a violation of protocol.
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Now, Bangladesh temporarily blocks Facebook
Bangladesh on Saturday temporarily blocked the social network Facebook amid demands by a radical organisation to ban the website for hurting sentiments of Muslims.No official comment was immediately available for the closure of the popular network. However, an official source on condition of anonymity said that the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regu...
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Facebook changes privacy tools
Amid mounting criticism that it is betraying the trust of its users, world's largest social networking site Facebook on Thursday overhauled its privacy controls under which the amount of information that is always visible to others will be reduced.In an hour-long news conference at its Palo Alto headquarters in California, Facebook's 26-year-old CE...
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Facebook page that led to Pak ban removed
A Facebook page that was considered offensive to Islam and led to a Pakistani ban on the site has been removed, possibly by its creator.Facebook said on Friday that it has not taken any action on the page, which had attracted more than 100,000 users and encouraged users to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, purportedly in support of freedom o...
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Pak court orders temporary blocking of Facebook
A Pakistani court on Wednesday ordered authorities to temporarily block social networking website Facebook following a controversy over a competition on blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Mohammad on the site.Justice Ijaz Choudhry of the Lahore High Court issued the order in response to a petition filed by the Islamic Lawyers Movement seeking a ban...
