Breastfeeding deemed “obscene” by Facebook
Posted on January 4, 2009 by Chris
Apparently pictures of mothers breastfeeding their children are being quietly removed from Facebook because they don’t “comply” with Facebook’s obscenity policy. Ignoring how ridiculous this is on its face, if you read a little deeper into the New York Times post you’ll learn that most of the pictures are actually flagged by other users for potential removal - so the moral minority has determined that breastfeeding is “icky” and shouldn’t be shown online. Have they done a Google search lately? Or for that matter, realized that Facebook actually has a group called “I’ve had sex with somebody on Facebook” that has nearly 150,000 members.
I believe some of the more repressive regimes out there have a whole crop of guys who do this sort of thing - wander around and make sure no one shows too much skin - by beating them with sticks. Maybe this is the Web 2.0 version.
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The problem with proprietary social network sites is you have no choice but to play by their rules….which they can interpret any way they like or change any time they like. Roll on open distributed social networks.