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{{Display censorship incident
|ongoing=no
|ongoing=no
|year=2018
|year=2016
|region=North America
|region=Asia
|artist=Zoe Leonard
|artist=Huỳnh Công (Nick) Út
|subject=Political/Economic/Social Opinion
|confronting_bodies=Facebook
|confronting_bodies=Instagram
|medium=Electronic Media, Internet, Photography
|medium=Electronic Media, Literature
|date_of_action=September 2016
|date_of_action=January 2018
|location=Online
|location=Online
|description_of_content=“I want a dyke for president,” Zoe Leonard writes in her 1992 poem inspired by the author Eileen Myles’ run for president, written at the height of the AIDS epidemic. "I want a person with AIDS for president and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance and I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that they didn’t have a choice about getting leukemia. I want a president that had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who isn’t the lesser of two evils and I want a president who lost their last lover to AIDS, who still sees that in their eyes every time they lay down to rest, who held their lover in their arms and knew they were dying. I want a president with no air-conditioning, a president who has stood in line at the clinic, at the DMV, at the welfare office, and has been unemployed and laid off and sexually harassed and gaybashed and deported. I want someone who has spent the night in the tombs and had a cross burned on their lawn and survived rape. I want someone who has been in love and been hurt, who respects sex, who has made mistakes and learned from them. I want a Black woman for president. I want someone with bad teeth and an attitude, someone who has eaten that nasty hospital food, someone who crossdresses and has done drugs and been in therapy. I want someone who has committed civil disobedience. And I want to know why this isn’t possible. I want to know why we started learning somewhere down the line that a president is always a clown. Always a john and never a hooker. Always a boss and never a worker. Always a liar, always a thief, and never caught."
|description_of_content=On June 8, 1972, while serving as a photographer with the Associated Press, Huỳnh Công Út — who works under the professional name Nick Ut — took "The Terror of War," an infamous photo of nine-year-old Kim Phúc running away from a napalm attack during the Vietnam War.
|description_of_incident=Washington, D.C. couple Leighton Brown and Matthew Riemer posted the poem on the Instagram account @lgbt_history, which is dedicated to the history of the LGBT community. Brown and Riemer told the press that the poem "is among the starkest representations of the queer community’s feelings of desperation and underrepresentation at the height of the AIDS era.“ A few days later, the post — which had over 12,000 likes — was taken down by the platform for “violating community standards.” Brown and Riemer reposted the poem three times afterwards, and each time it was taken down. They then asked their followers to share the poem, filling Instagram with hundreds of posts of the poem. While not all of those posts were deleted, those censored for participating included the chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, who was in the process of planning a retrospective of the poet Zoe Leonard’s work.
|description_of_incident=In early September 2016, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg denounced Facebook for engaging in censorship after the company deleted a post from her personal Facebook page that displayed Ut's iconic Vietnam War photo of a naked girl running screaming from a napalm attack.
|description_of_result=For three days following public outcry over the blatant art censorship on its platform, Instagram's only comment was that they were “looking into it.” By the end of the week, the company announced through a spokesperson that “The content was taken down by mistake, and has since been restored."
 
|image=600px-I_want_a_dyke_for_president.jpg
"While we recognize that this photo is iconic, it's difficult to create a distinction between allowing a photograph of a nude child in one instance and not others," said a Facebook statement addressing the issue.
|source=https://qz.com/1190263/why-is-instagram-censoring-zoe-leonards-poem-from-1992
|description_of_result=Following widespread criticisms from news organizations and media experts across the globe, Facebook reversed its initial decision, saying in a statement to the Guardian: “After hearing from our community, we looked again at how our Community Standards were applied in this case. An image of a naked child would normally be presumed to violate our Community Standards, and in some countries might even qualify as child pornography. In this case, we recognize the history and global importance of this image in documenting a particular moment in time.”
 
The statement continued: “Because of its status as an iconic image of historical importance, the value of permitting sharing outweighs the value of protecting the community by removal, so we have decided to reinstate the image on Facebook where we are aware it has been removed.”
 
Facebook also said it would “adjust our review mechanisms to permit sharing of the image going forward”. The company said the image would be available for sharing “in the coming days” and that it is “always looking to improve our policies to make sure they both promote free expression and keep our community safe”.
|image=Screen Shot 2023-07-27 at 12.09.42 PM.png
|source=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/09/09/abusing-your-power-mark-zuckerberg-slammed-after-facebook-censors-vietnam-war-photo/, https://www.wsj.com/articles/norway-accuses-facebook-of-censorship-over-deleted-photo-of-napalm-girl-1473428032, https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37318031, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/09/facebook-reinstates-napalm-girl-photo, https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/facebook-under-fire-censoring-iconic-napalm-girl-photo-n645526
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Artist: Huỳnh Công (Nick) Út

Year: 2016

Date of Action: September 2016

Region: Asia

Location: Online

Subject:

Medium: Electronic Media, Internet, Photography

Confronting Bodies: Facebook

Description of Artwork: On June 8, 1972, while serving as a photographer with the Associated Press, Huỳnh Công Út — who works under the professional name Nick Ut — took "The Terror of War," an infamous photo of nine-year-old Kim Phúc running away from a napalm attack during the Vietnam War.

The Incident: In early September 2016, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg denounced Facebook for engaging in censorship after the company deleted a post from her personal Facebook page that displayed Ut's iconic Vietnam War photo of a naked girl running screaming from a napalm attack.

"While we recognize that this photo is iconic, it's difficult to create a distinction between allowing a photograph of a nude child in one instance and not others," said a Facebook statement addressing the issue.

Results of Incident: Following widespread criticisms from news organizations and media experts across the globe, Facebook reversed its initial decision, saying in a statement to the Guardian: “After hearing from our community, we looked again at how our Community Standards were applied in this case. An image of a naked child would normally be presumed to violate our Community Standards, and in some countries might even qualify as child pornography. In this case, we recognize the history and global importance of this image in documenting a particular moment in time.”

The statement continued: “Because of its status as an iconic image of historical importance, the value of permitting sharing outweighs the value of protecting the community by removal, so we have decided to reinstate the image on Facebook where we are aware it has been removed.”

Facebook also said it would “adjust our review mechanisms to permit sharing of the image going forward”. The company said the image would be available for sharing “in the coming days” and that it is “always looking to improve our policies to make sure they both promote free expression and keep our community safe”.

Source:
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/09/09/abusing-your-power-mark-zuckerberg-slammed-after-facebook-censors-vietnam-war-photo/,
• https://www.wsj.com/articles/norway-accuses-facebook-of-censorship-over-deleted-photo-of-napalm-girl-1473428032,
• https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37318031,
• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/09/facebook-reinstates-napalm-girl-photo,
• https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/facebook-under-fire-censoring-iconic-napalm-girl-photo-n645526




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