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Activist Communique: Report this site - Stop The Movement, Canadians Against Idle No More facebook page

| January 19, 2013

Report this site - Stop The Movement, Canadians Against Idle No More facebook page

Holey!

Can we get people together to report this Facebook site.

The Facebook page is called: Stop The Movement: Canadians Against Idle No More

They state, “I am a YOUNG CAUCASIAN Canadian. I have had it up to my eyeballs with this Idle No More Bull!!! This is NOT peaceful protesting, and the protestors have NO IDEA WHAT THE HELL they are doing anyway! Let's show Canadians that we have had enough, and I am calling on Canadians to join me, in the fight, to STOP THIS RACISM! I AM CANADIAN and I love beavers.”

Cyber safety by design: Red Hood Project demands action

Raffi Cavoukian Sandy Garossino

| December 1, 2012

In October 2012, British Columbia teen Amanda Todd ended her life after suffering intolerable bullying triggered by a sexual predator who found and blackmailed her through Facebook. Millions were outraged. We were too. We are social media enthusiasts who care deeply about protecting vulnerable young users in the cyber woods from the predators out to get them.

The benefits of social media in connecting users worldwide are well known, and we ourselves have cheered the democratization of knowledge and information sharing. However, the proliferations of SM access to an increasingly younger demographic is most worrisome.

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#139 Space for change: Gaza, Facebook, feminism

November 30, 2012

| In this episode we look at spaces for change, and where and why it is needed and happening -- from Gaza, to Facebook, to politics, to feminism and humanism, and to 100-year reflections on change.

Length: 27:21 minutes (37.64 MB)

Feminist Current

Does Facebook have a misogyny problem?

November 19, 2012

| Facebook has faced significant critique over pages that promote violence against women and rape 'jokes'. Meghan Murphy speaks with Soraya Chemaly about this issue and how it might be addressed.

Length: 30:03 minutes (27.51 MB)

Open letter to Facebook: B.C. advocates push for safe social media

various

| November 16, 2012

Dear Ms. Sandberg,

We are a community of concerned citizens in British Columbia, including Amanda Todd’s mother. As you may know, Amanda was contacted and blackmailed through Facebook by an adult predator who impersonated local teens to enter her circles of friends.

We write imploring you to lead change in the social media industry by correcting the security failures that made such victimization possible.

Anonymous comments? Dean Del Mastro's right: There oughtta be a law!

David J. Climenhaga

| November 2, 2012

It's hard not to feel a pang of sympathy for Dean Del Mastro, the Conservative MP for the Ontario riding of Peterborough, who informed us the other day that there oughtta be a law about anonymous comments on the Internet.

Who among us hasn't felt the sting of the Anonymous Brigade on Twitter, Facebook and in the comments sections of myriad blogs and online newspapers? Just try to "censor" some Sun News Network bloviator's on-air ejaculations and watch what happens to your blog's comments section!

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Employees beware: The perils of posting on Facebook

The dramatic growth of social media use in Canada on such sites as Facebook has raised novel legal issues for employers and employees. One such issue is whether or not an employee's off-duty conduct online (i.e. posting personal status updates, photos or comments on Facebook at home) can get that employee fired. In short, the answer is yes.

Many Canadians still erroneously believe that what they post on their personal Facebook page is private. They feel little hesitation in coming home after a difficult day at work and griping publicly about their company, boss, co‑workers or quality of work. While it is important to protect freedom of expression and healthy discourse on labour relations issues, posting this type of content online may have serious consequences.

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Social Network Facebook: The New Home of the Bourgeois Individual

http://mostlywater.org/social_network_facebook_new_home_bourgeois_indivi...

"...the user as a public persona: the really existing caricature of the bourgeois competitor and market participant.."

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U of C censures students for criticizing prof on Facebook, runs into Charter challenge

I heard about this story on The Current last night. This is an interesting case, for two reasons, I think.

First, there is the "free speech" issue which prompted the case:

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It all started in 2007 when the twin brothers took a course on law and society taught by Aruna Mitra.

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Fed up with Facebook? Ticked at Twitter? Diaspora* is up and running!

Bob Chandler

| September 28, 2011

Last winter, I wrote in this space about Diaspora*, a new free software-based, decentralized, privacy-aware social networking service developed by four computer science students at New York University.

At the time, Diaspora* was in the very early "alpha" stage of development and access to the service was by invitation only.

Right now, there are probably a couple of dozen "Pods" (servers) up and running on the Net and for all intents and purposes, Diaspora* is open for business!

What's different about Diaspora*?

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