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Amit Kelkar

Online ombudsman for Facebook woes? | The Australian - 3 views

www.theaustralian.com.au/...story-e6frgakx-1225834756343

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shared by Amit Kelkar on 02 Mar 10 - No Cached
  • Amit Kelkar on 02 Mar 10
     
    Rudd will consider Xenaphon's idea of an online ombudsman to help in some unknown way people affected by social media issues such as cyberbullying. 
Tamsin Lloyd

Government: Don't feed the trolls | EFA - 0 views

www.efa.org.au/...overnment-dont-feed-the-trolls

Government; 'moral codes'; 'online ombudsman'

shared by Tamsin Lloyd on 11 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Tamsin Lloyd on 11 Mar 10
     
    Government instructs web users to 'not feed the trolls', following scandals involving the defacement of Facebook pages. An 'Online Ombudsman' is proposed. This raises the question of whether and how Government is able to intervene in online forums. In these cases, no law has been broken, just moral codes.
César Albarrán Torres

Users to blame for Facebook vandalism: net industry - 0 views

www.smh.com.au/...et-industry-20100309-puth.html

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shared by César Albarrán Torres on 09 Mar 10 - Cached
  • The shocking vandalism of tribute Facebook pages for slain Australian children could have been avoided if only users, not Facebook, put more effort into policing the site, the internet industry says.
  • The incidents led Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to say he was considering appointing an online ombudsman to deal with social networking issues.
  • "The overriding view is that users are not utilising the safety tools that these sites provide, and that was in large part the cause of these recent problems," he said in an interview.
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  • "All of the social networking sites need to make safety a stronger and clearer priority than it is and that includes more adequate resourcing," said Nockles, who is now a cyber safety consultant and vice-president of global net safety group I-SAFE.
  • César Albarrán Torres on 09 Mar 10
     
    If users are to blame, who should provide media literacy programs?
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