Mathew Ingram has a riveting piece about how Facebook shut down Roger Ebert's account on Facebook because he said something that offended some people. The only thing to add is that it is not possible to do journalism in an environment where your writing can be taken down if the company hosting it deems it offensive. We need to work on creating places where journalism is possible, where you can say what you have to say. And the service is provided by a vendor who has no interest in what you say. |