Hardly a day goes by without Facebook landing itself in a censorship row, but the social media giants latest kerfuffle a temporary ban of the Russian government-backed network RT has drawn threats of retaliation from the Russian state censor.
RT was barred from posting images, videos or live streams on its Facebook page for about 20 hours, possibly over a copyright issue related to its stream of Barack Obamas final press conference on Wednesday, according to the network. The network said it streamed a subscription Associated Press feed, whoch should not have violated any rights.
All the features for this page owner have now been restored, a spokesperson for Facebook said on Thursday morning. We are looking into the reasons behind the temporary block.
Källa: Russia threatens retaliation over Facebook ’censorship’ of RT | Technology | The Guardian

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