Censorpedia: An Interactive Database of Censorship Incidents

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Artist: Andrea Lalama

Year: 2013

Date of Action: May 2013

Region: North America


Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion, Youth

Medium: Internet, Photography, Public Speech

Confronting Bodies: Facebook

Description of Artwork: Photograph of two children holding hand drawn signs in opposition to Monsanto.

The Incident: Facebook banned Andrea Lalama from posting any content for about two weeks after determining that her photograph of children demonstrating against Monsanto was unacceptable to be posted on Facebook.

Results of Incident: Not provided yet.

Source:
http://now.msn.com/facebook-censors-monsanto-protest-photos-of-children-with-anti-gmo-signs
































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Censorpedia is a crowdsourced online database of censorship cases within the arts and in culture. It is aimed at those researching censorship, at activists working for freedom of expression and at artists and other cultural producers whose expression has been subject to censorship or attempted censorship.

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