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Facebook in china
I am confused. Is facebook still blocked in China? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Imascrabblefreak (talk • contribs) 04:44, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Where is the page on censorship of Wiki? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andak01 (talk • contribs) 12:29, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Syria not blocked anymore
Syria announced in February 2011 that Facebook and Youtube are not blocked anymore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.94.245.160 (talk) 15:09, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Danish censorship?
I find the claim that Facebook censors any mention of freemasonry in Danish highly dubious. For one thing, Danish freemasons have their own page there, also the Danish Wikipedia mentions no such thing and a Google search brought up no relevant results, except one claim on a private blog. This seems somewhat absurd, and I'll remove the section unless there's some substantive proof for this assertion. Asav | Talk 09:09, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I removed the section. Asav | Talk 11:36, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Facebook in Vietnam
Facebook is not blocked in Vietnam (anymore). There is also no official saying by the government that it was blocked in the past. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigb0x (talk • contribs) 22:14, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Current status
Please add a current status section at top. Jidanni (talk) 16:41, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Rename?; I though this was about censorship BY facebook
Might be worth renaming to Censorship of Facebook by governments or whatever else. Facebook itself filters a massive amount of information as well. Palosirkka (talk) 10:07, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I was about to propose the same thing. Censorship of Facebook makes it unclear WHO is censoring facebook. I think the article would be best named "Facebook Censorship" as I'm not a fan of putting "of" or "by" in the name of articles. Bryce Carmony (talk) 03:40, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Facebook in Australia
This section should be removed. There is no censorship of Facebook in Australia. The article cited in the section is now a broken URL. Even if, as the paragraph suggests, Facebook had given parents access to their children's account, it still wouldn't fit the description of 'censorship'. The paragraph and its existence on this page would easily mislead readers into (incorrectly) thinking there is censorship of Facebook in Australia. LlamaLlamaLamp (talk) 11:58, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

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Censorship by Facebook
How about a new section on countries that Facebook ads doesn't recognize as locations? I.e., the countries that Facebook intentionally censors. The countries are Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria. You can see by going to https://www.facebook.com/business/products/ads, creating an ad, and entering these countries as locations. The State Department's State Sponsors of Terrorism are Iran, Sudan, and Syria. It appears that Facebook blocks countries that sponsor terrorism but didn't read the news on May 29, 2015 that Cuba had been removed from the list. --TDKehoe (talk) 14:15, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

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Facebook in Israel
hello all, I wanted to contribute on te page Censorship of Facebook with the following piece, but somehow I can't get Israel to be placed between Iran and Malaysia correctly. It constantly goes to 1.6.1 right under Iran as a sub-piece if I try. Is there someting I'm doing wrong? I am new to this so any help would be welcome. Tank you in advance.

In september 2016, the Cabinet of Israel has said to have agreed wit facebook to remove content that is deemed as incitement . This announcment came after top Facebook officials met with the Israeli government to determine which Facebook accounts should be deleted on the grounds that they constituted as incitement. The Israeli interrior ministers office has said that they agreed with Facebook representatives to create teams that would figure out how best to monitor and remove "inflammatory content" online. Critics of Israels policies are not happy with this move as they claim this is being used as a way to silence outspoken Palestinian civilians, activists and journalists. The activists argue that when they post material meant to critique occupation, Israel sees it as encouraging violence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CuriousGianni (talk • contribs)

Mention of Taiwan in re. China
FYI, there's what looks like a slow-speed edit war going on. Most recent edits at the top:


 * (cur | prev) 12:09, 21 March 2018‎ 101.8.144.186 (talk)‎ . . (25,080 bytes) (-7)‎ . . (undo)
 * (cur | prev) 04:15, 21 March 2018‎ 223.104.109.156 (talk)‎ . . (25,087 bytes) (+7)‎ . . (unexplained content removal) (undo)
 * (cur | prev) 05:16, 17 March 2018‎ 101.15.24.135 (talk)‎ . . (25,080 bytes) (-7)‎ . . (undo) (Tag: Undo)
 * (cur | prev) 13:27, 13 March 2018‎ 113.92.152.214 (talk)‎ . . (24,569 bytes) (+7)‎ . . (→‎China: Taiwan (republic of China) is also claimed as part of China.) (undo) (Tags: Mobile edit, Mobile web edit)
 * (cur | prev) 13:27, 13 March 2018‎ 113.92.152.214 (talk)‎ . . (24,569 bytes) (+7)‎ . . (→‎China: Taiwan (republic of China) is also claimed as part of China.) (undo) (Tags: Mobile edit, Mobile web edit)

Perhaps there are earlier reverts and reverts of reverts - I didn't check the full page history.

I would have undone the 21 March 2018‎ change by 101.8.144.186, but I don't want to get involved.

69.143.175.242 (talk) 15:29, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Censorship by Facebook 2
I'd like to add how there is censoring to Facebook in the US as well. Here are some articles I have found to site. Any input on these? Greenwald, Glenn. (2017). Facebook says it is deleting accounts at the directions of the U.S and Israeli governments. Retrieved from https://theintercept.com/2017/12/30/facebook-says-it-is-deleting-accounts-at-the-direction-of-the-u-s-and-israeli-governments/ KaylaMcCardle (talk) 03:31, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Papua New Guinea's Facebook Banned for a month?
I read the news about Papua New Guinea block the access to facebook DannySoDoes73 (talk) 15:24, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

[Untitled]
This section does not seem to meet Wikipedia standards. There are no citations and multiple grammar mistakes:

“The United States backs Israels decision to demand Facebook silence certain Palestinian groups that speak out against them. Facebook has admitted to this and that they worry if they do not comply to an extent that there will be repercussions by the US government. Philip Giraldi, an ex-CIA Officer, confirms that this is true. He states that Facebook is often told to delete or censor people that are on their watch lists. This has happened many times according to Giraldi in an effort to prevent protests and violence that these people on the watchlists may try to cause. The US has put into place laws and regulations to try and prevent terrorist acts on the US especially since the 9/11 attacks. Facebook has had to follow these laws and regulations to censor the American people to an extent.“ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2606:6000:cdc9:3d00:c4e5:329b:ac4:a24c (talk • contribs)

Footnote source unavailable to most readers
The current footnote 10 cites: "Off-Campus eResource Access - Paul A. Elsner Library @ Mesa Community College". login.ezp.mesacc.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-11.

This source is only available to people who can log in at Mesa Community College. Ileanadu (talk) 15:58, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

Brazil
Brazil - Bolsonaro!

Inappropriate editorialising
The below phrase is an opinion, with grammar errors and no sourcing supplied. It should be removed.

"China does not really block any western sites as long as it abides China laws by self-censoring content like all Chinese companies do. There is no "security reasons" to ban like Tiktok and wechat in US. It was widely believed in China, it might not be successful in China without strong commitment as local adaptations are required due to local competitions. Same has already been observed in EBay, Amazon etc which were first in China than Alibaba like companies, but failed to compete afterwards." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stoneauthoritybrother (talk • contribs) 04:35, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Why was Facebook banned when all it was doing was post what other social media sites post
Facebook is not wrong at all 41.246.26.108 (talk) 06:41, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Major cleanup
I corrected multiple grammar errors throughout the article. I also removed some over cites (same information from different sources) and some that violated WP:RS. There are still a lot of over cites! Finally, I removed some redundant content, although there is more work to be done in that regard.--FeralOink (talk) 04:51, 3 June 2022 (UTC)