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Facebook Requires Legal Notice To Remove Offensive Posts

However, you can flag it as being offensive, but the decision to be taken only if a legal document supports the appeal.

 

We all have come across a few posts on Facebook which we feel like flagging off as offensive, and thereby urge the social media giant to remove it permanently. Well, the removal will not be possible from here onwards.

Recently, Facebook has revised its policy about removal of posts following a Supreme Court order stating that, a legal document should support the appeal of removing objectionable posts.

According to a report by Deccan Chronicle, Monica Bickert, Global Policy head of Facebook, has mentioned that, a post can be flagged off on the basis of illegality and only when a legal document is presented in support of the appeal. Along with this, she has also said that, Facebook will be scrutinising the appeal under its legal guidelines after the submission process is complete.

This actually means that, if you want some post to be taken down from the social networking website, it wouldn't be possible unless you have some legal document proving its offensiveness.

With this move that comes in accordance with Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000, Facebook is looking forward to make its content filtering a lot more logical, help in better management, and also curb irrelevant requests. However, this may not be welcomed by many users.

Do not worry. You will still be having an option to flag or report those posts that you may feel as objectionable. But, as the company says, the content will be actually blocked only when they find it to be violating the community standards, along with a legal proof!


TAGS: Facebook, Legal Notice

 
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