Facebook refuses to show Pulitzer Prize-winning photo

[robkelk]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/facebook-n ... -1.3754796

Note: the photo itself may be disturbing, or NSFW depending on the W.

I have to agree with the people who are upset about this. Refusing to admit historical acts happened makes it more difficult to make sure they don't happen again... and, whether Facebook likes it or not, they're a major depository of the cultural memory now.

EDIT: The article has been updated - Facebook has changed their minds after a public outcry.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Pyeknu]

Agreed.  Yes, some could have seen that photo as borderline child porno given the youth of the poor girl in question, but it also depicted a very terrible act during the Vietnam War.  To forget such things would be flat out wrong,

[Black Aeronaut]

I seem to recall that the very same girl in that photograph got to meet one of the pilots that dropped the napalm on her village just a few years ago. Fortunately, she forgave him.

[Bob Schroeck]

And now, after several days of international news attention, mockery, systematic defiance by its users and a rebuke from Norway's prime minister, http://www.wsj.com/articles/norway-accu ... 1473428032]Facebook has backed down.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.