This new EFF website draws attention to social media censorship

We already know that Facebook and other social networks tailor our feeds based on what is likely to interest us instead of showing us everything our friends post by default. But what else aren’t they showing us? A new site from the Electronic Frontier Foundation aims to tell us all about the types of content social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube are reluctant to let us see. OnlineCensorship.org aims to make content deletions on social networks more transparent by receiving and publicizing user-contributed stories of censorship. The site is financed by a 2014 Knight News Challenge awardd. Content restrictions on social networks are certainly nothing new. Most social networks have prohibitions against posting things such as pirated material, pornography, or hate speech. You’ve probably also heard about more specific restrictions such as Facebook’s former prohibition of breastfeeding images, no female nipples on Instagram, or Twitter’s crackdown on tweeting other people’s jokes as your own. The world’s largest social network also recently started deleting mentions of the Manhattan-based social network Tsu.co calling it spam, according to The Huffington Post. Heck, Boing Boing couldn’t even mention the site in its own story without it getting pulled off Facebook.