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#NSFW? Be Yourself but Don’t Undress

#NSFW? Be Yourself but Don’t Undress

Facebook also wants to launch a dating app now. In the latest issue of the research magazine encore, Amélie Pia Heldt explains what this means for the freedom of expression and personal development of users.

Abstract
“The world’s biggest social network plans to launch a new dating application but at the same time it has banned all types of potentially sexualised behaviour in a new version of its community standards, including communication via private groups or messages. This not only threatens users’ freedom of expression but also their freedom of personal development.”
 
Heldt, A. P. (2019): #NSFW? Be Yourself but Don’t Undress. encore: The Annual Magazine on Internet and Society Research 2019/2020, S. 68-72 (pdf)

#NSFW? Be Yourself but Don’t Undress

Facebook also wants to launch a dating app now. In the latest issue of the research magazine encore, Amélie Pia Heldt explains what this means for the freedom of expression and personal development of users.

Abstract
“The world’s biggest social network plans to launch a new dating application but at the same time it has banned all types of potentially sexualised behaviour in a new version of its community standards, including communication via private groups or messages. This not only threatens users’ freedom of expression but also their freedom of personal development.”
 
Heldt, A. P. (2019): #NSFW? Be Yourself but Don’t Undress. encore: The Annual Magazine on Internet and Society Research 2019/2020, S. 68-72 (pdf)

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Amélie Pia Heldt, Maître en droit

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2020

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social networks • freedom of opinion • HIIG • publication

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