AP Photographer Nick Ut’s famous Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnam War photo illustrating the terror of war was censored for nudity by Mark Zukerberg’s minions. Facebook deigned to restore the image to its site, but did not apologize. It issued instead a boilerplate claim that the image could have been mistaken for kiddie porn in some countries, proving that Facebook was one of them. “In this case,” it added, “we recognize the history and global importance of this image in documenting a particular moment in time.” So helpful of them. Here’s another reminder of what they seem to think of as merely a “moment in time.”
“… the panopticon must not be understood as a dream building: it is the diagram of a mechanism of power reduced to its ideal form…”
~ Michel Foucault, Discipline And Punish, 1977.