Facebook blocks Kashmir magazine’s page, deletes cover of issue
The amicable networking website blocked Kashmir Ink page for allegedly not following village standards. PHOTO: KASHMIR INK
Facebook on Sunday blocked a central page of a internal Kashmir weekly and deleted a post of a cover display a blueprint of Burhan Wani.
Kashmir Ink, a sister announcement of a valley’s heading English daily Greater Kashmir, had common a cover of their latest emanate with a blueprint of Wani with the headline: “Kashmir: A year after Burhan’s death”. Indian army had killed Wani during an confront on Jul 8, 2016 following that large protests and enlarged curfews combined disturbance in a disputed region.
A Hindustan Times news pronounced a amicable networking website blocked a repository page for not “following village standards”.
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“The issue, as is clear from a cover, talks about a stream conditions in hold Kashmir after a year of an occurrence that rattled a valley. And whose ripples exclude to lessen still,” pronounced domestic cartoonist Suhail H Naqshbandi, who drew Wani’s blueprint for a repository cover. According to him, “some ignoramus folks” reported a post to Facebook officials who after motionless to bury it.
A summary from Facebook pronounced a proxy retard would final for 24 hours, and “you won’t be means to post on Facebook until it’s finished”. “We private a post next since it doesn’t follow a Facebook Community Standards,” a Facebook summary said.
“This is totally unjustified,” pronounced Majid Maqbool, Executive Editor Kashmir Ink, adding that Facebook did not give any before sign before holding a impassioned step. “We had Burhan Wani on a front cover progressing in a year as well, though a central Facebook page was not blocked nor was a cover picture removed”, he continued.
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Maqbool demanded that a central page of a repository should be easy shortly so a online readers were means to see and entrance a latest issue.
India on Saturday imposed a widespread curfew, cut off all internet services and deployed thousands of infantry in Kashmir as a Himalayan segment noted a anniversary of Wani. The genocide of a 23-year-old, who had also built adult a large following on amicable media, sparked an escape of grief and annoy that spilt into a streets and led to months of clashes with Indian forces. Nearly 100 people died in a months that followed and many some-more postulated critical eye injuries from a particle guns used by supervision army to relieve a protests.
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