Hi Shelly, Abdallah,
I'll delete some of the text from the messages I am quoting and
replace it with "snip" to avoid excessive quoting.
At 01:27 14-09-2015, Shelly Hermia Bhujun wrote:
>Facebook usually delete any inappropriate pictures and send a notice
>to the admin or user. I don't know if it is the same for comment though.
Inappropriate images or posts (comments) can be removed if it is
reported to Facebook. I don't know whether that will work for
comments which are written in local language.
>Yes, the admin has the right to delete comments or any publication
>that he/she might find inappropriate. I would still blame the users
>for posting any offensive comments though.
>A group or a page is a way for users to bounce around their opinion.
>Each group has a description and objective. Can we really blame the
>page admin if some FB users don't know their limits and start an
>off-topic discussion on sensitive issues? (It depends- I don't know
>the whole story) Can we blame the owner of Twitter or Facebook if
>users don't know their limit?
There are different angles. I suggest considering this: will the
Page administrator have to answer questions from the police?
The owners of those social networks are making money out of the
content being posted by their users. There was a case (outside
Mauritius) last month in which the autoplay feature on Facebook and
Twitter caused users to watch a video of a murder. It would be bad
to ignore issues like that one.
>Is it really a problem about knowing how to use social network or
>the Internet?
>I would rather say that the issue is more about educating people how
>to use it.
There is the IC3 course organised by the National Computer Board
under the ageis of the Ministry of Information and Communication
Technology [1]. I sent an invitation [2] to Mr K. Usmani,
Officer-in-Charge, CERT-MU, on 10 July about providing information
and assistance to the home users constituency. There wasn't any
response to the invitation. Is it worth suggesting education when
there is very little interest in actually doing that?
>Again- Banning Facebook is not a solution.
>It's like taking a candy away from a kid- will the kid stop thinking
>about it or will he/she be looking for another candy?
Yes.
>This issue was reported in 2013 but who can guarantee that it is not
>still happening?
>http://www.lemauricien.com/article/prisons-centaine-detenus-s-affichent-sur-facebook-et-communiquent
Thanks for the link. There is the technology to restrict that type
of access. I don't know whether it is being used.
>Again- There has been several cases reported and news articles on
>various FB or social network problems. How come no request was
>recorded? It seems that banning Facebook is a more interesting
>subject than talking about how they can actually make sure Facebook
>get their requests.
I was surprised by the absence of government requests. It is
convenient to ask for things which we do not use to be banned instead
of analyzing whether that will actually solve the problem(s).
At 02:54 14-09-2015, Abdallah Ramsing wrote:
>Yeah I think he/she should be held accountable because the fake
>profiles are propagating incorrect information and without blocking
>them the Administrator is participating in a way. However in reality
>it will not be as simple. Its time consuming to detect a fake
[snip]
Thanks for the comment.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
1.
http://www.ncb.mu/English/PublishingImages/Downloads/NCB%20Brochures/Flyer%20IC3%20Course.jpg
2.
http://lists.elandnews.com/archive/mauritius/internet-users/2015/07/2911.html
Received on Mon Sep 14 2015 - 11:01:48 PST
