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| Quote: I follow you on Facebook, but you don’t know me. I am editor-in-chief of the Norwegian daily newspaper Aftenposten. I am writing this letter to inform you that I shall not comply with your requirement to remove a documentary photography from the Vietnam war made by Nick Ut. | |
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http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/komm ... 4156b.html
You, of course, know the photo he’s referring to. It’s this:
Now, given the other thread about the Belfast girl’s photo and FaceBook, I think this is a rather interesting contrast. It seems that FaceBook can work rather quickly, and aggressively, if they want to.
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| Quote: The demand that we remove the picture came in an e-mail from Facebook’s office in Hamburg this Wednesday morning. Less than 24 hours after the e-mail was sent, and before I had time to give my response, you intervened yourselves and deleted the article as well as the image from Aftenposten’s Facebook page. | |
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Continuing:
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| Quote: Tom [Norwegian author Tom Egeland who posted the article] then rendered Kim Phuc’s [the naked girl in the photo, fleeing the napalm] criticism against Facebook for banning her picture. Facebook reacted by excluding Tom and prevented him from posting a new entry. | |
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