title: [Public interactions, private censorship: the case of Facebook].
abstract: Facebook is examined as a transnational online social networking platform where public discussions and interactions take place. The study surveys the private control of cultural and political expressions exercised by the platform's managers, which can be defined as private censorship. Cases of removal of content are presented and Facebook's political control policies discussed. The article also shows how Facebook rules display highly discretionary components and an aesthetic that can be portrayed as a kind of biopolitics of the information-age society.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Engenharia, Modelagem e Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André, SP, Brasil, sergio.amadeu@ufabc.edu.br.
authors.forename: Sergio Amadeu da
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Silveira
mesh_terms: D002961:Civil Rights; D011057:Politics; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D061108:Social Media / Q000458:organization & administration*; D060756:Social Networking