See also: "Dear Mark. I am writing this to inform you that I shall not comply"<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12457004" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12457004</a> (10 hours ago, 165 comments)
He is right. Applying "terms of agreement" blindly is stupid. For the same principle, one couldn't post a pic of David Michelangelo or Birth of Venus, because of nudity?<p>Norms and laws have to be applied thinking about their Ratio, not just "because here it says so"
So basically he's saying "I broke the terms of agreement and you removed my content. Now I'm sad." I don't know why some journalists seem to believe that terms and/or laws don't apply to them. I know there are a lot of gray areas, but you still don't have the right to do anything you please and yell at the world for not being handled differently from whatever law/agreement you know you are breaking.
Large Norwegian Newspaper (Aftenposten) changed its logo for today, and has this open letter, strong message.
<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kommentar/Dear-Mark-I-am-writing-this-to-inform-you-that-I-shall-not-comply-with-your-requirement-to-remove-this-picture-604156b.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kommentar/Dear-Mark-I-am-...</a>
In other news, Newspaper requests different rights for “editors and other Facebook users” as a way to stop 'limiting of freedoms'.<p>tl;dr Editor breaks TOS, uses open letter to misuse own editorial responsibility.
I don't get it. Why does a Norwegian paper complain about an American company? Facebook isn't Altenposten's website, you post something on Facebook, you play by Facebook's rules. You don't agree, then don't post on Facebook and go run your own website / printed paper.<p>And if you feel that Facebook is too large and censoring things, go talk to your government. If you are a large enough paper in your country, you should have a say.<p>I think the biggest issue here is that there is no way to get into a reasonable discussion with Facebook that a picture should not be removed or pixelated. It's automated, and no Facebook representative will look at it.<p>It should be very easy for Facebook to include a picture like this in their whitelist (eg. all award winning photos or something).