Burmese Cartoonist Suspects Facebook Suspension Tied To Political Cartoon Of Recent Vintage

The Burmese cartoonist Maung Maung Fountain is profiled in a regional news source about the potential that his Facebook account was suspended after the political nature of a recent cartoon was reported by other users. It's worth reading just for itself -- Fountain's a quarter century into his career, so any sort of crackdown on his work would be noticeable -- and for the idea that a lot of censorious control is signed over to corporations like Facebook and thus to the whims of a reporting policy country to country. It's like a scarier version of the occasional US twitter suspension.

If this is indeed spun from the cartoon in question, it's also worth noting how mild a cartoon that is to English-language audience to be the potential source of an action action like the one suggested here.
 
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