[Reader-list] Facebook and Youtube

[Patrice Riemens]

> dear All,
>
> a video appeared in facebook and youtube a day before. (the details
> are below in the two news reports).
>
> a lot of discussion had started in facebook around it. now it has been
> removed by both youtube and facebook. and along with it has
> disappeared all the discussions and comments. obviously it was a
> management decision. why they removed it no-one would know. Right to
> Information do not ever apply to corporate bodies anyway.
>
> Both facebook and youtube has become critical space to see, circulate
> and discuss many current events. but this kind of arbitrary removal of
> material clearly shows that this is a very unreliable space and need
> to be backed up with other more secured spaces in the net.
>
> warmly
>
> jeebesh
>
>

Not only will corporate bodies act as they see fit, so just forget about
freedom of information (just as forget about the right to be there when
you enter a commercial mall) but also, and that is the true face of their
power politics: they will never, ever, explain, let alone discuss, their
reasons. And there is of course no recourse, judicial or otherwise. And
guess what: it's the wet dream of the state (every state, anywhere) to
become & behave just like that.

Meanwhile people could start thinking about their usage of corporate
social networks & other web 2.0 tools, and switch to non-business
alternatives, like http://identi.ca/

But then, when you see a 'noted' (as they say in India) international
activist telling the world cold she now only communicates thru FaceBook
you start despairing...

Cheers, patrizio & Diiiinooos!