Facebook making a right tit of themselves?
Well, having seen users at Flickr revolt over censorship, and LiveJournal writers get snitty over LJ bans, it now looks as though Facebook is going to have to quell rebellion if the article Facebook ban incurs 'lactivist' wrath is anything to go by. Apparently they're banning photographs of breast feeding mothers, because an exposed breast violates their terms. Although we don't exactly know what 'exposed' really means. Also doesn't explain why Facebook seems to think it is ok to run an image of a topless model in a banner ad.
There is currently a Facebook group 'Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!' with over 10,000 members and over 600 photographs (presumably of mothers breastfeeding infants - I didn't personally check). It's an incredibly dense thing for Facebook to be doing, because the one group of people you really don't want to annoy are mothers. My guess is that Facebook will try and weather the storm, then retract and apologise - sooner rather than later.
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