Can Facebook Keep Us From Looking At Real Estate Porn?

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Will Facebook's policy on images of private residences have a chilling effect on journalistic gawking at celebrity homes?

Photo: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images Facebook has the ability to block news reports that violate its various policies, something which makes free-speech absolutists queasy given how many people rely on the platform to stay informed.

The residence is a single-family home, or the resident’s unit number is identified in the image/captionThat same resident objects to the exposure of their private residence or there is context of organizing protests against the resident “It certainly could have chilling effect” on real-estate reporting, says Marty Steffens, a journalism and business professor at the University of Missouri. “There’s been some interesting chilling effects on Zillow … As soon as a house is off the market a lot of the photos and details have disappeared.

 

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