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Facebook ban breastfeeding pictures

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sherby · 30/12/2008 13:29

given some of the photos I have seen on facebook this seems very strange

Will the ignorance never end?

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MoreSpamThanGlam · 30/12/2008 13:31

What a load of ridiculous shite

meemar · 30/12/2008 13:34

It's so pathetic.

They say "The photos we act upon are almost exclusively brought to our attention by other users who complain."

Why don't they just tell those other users to get a life?

DECKmuppetWITHBOUGHSOFHOLLY · 30/12/2008 13:39

Ofgs so half naked women in soft porn poses (with 10 years out of date photos) is entirely fine yet women breast feeding isn't????

Flihgtattendant · 30/12/2008 13:43

Does anyone think it's time we left fb en masse? I for one have no wish to be part of such a blinkered, ignorant site. But then I never use it much anyway!

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sherby · 30/12/2008 13:48

DECK that is so true

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SoupDragon · 30/12/2008 13:50

"Photos containing a fully exposed breast - as defined by showing the nipple or areola - do violate those terms on obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit material and may be removed,"

Presumably they are only removing photos that violate that part of their T&C and not ones where you can see no nipple/areola.

Meglet · 30/12/2008 14:44

i deliberately stuck a bf one on there, but you can't see my breast in it. But it was my mini-protest at their stance.

SummatAnNowt · 30/12/2008 14:47

So all of the boob is okay but a nipple or bit of brown makes the whole breast obscene when previously it wasn't?!? Are people mental!?!

And just that breastfeeding comes under "obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit material"

AuntieMaggie · 30/12/2008 14:51

So glad with that this ridiculous ban made the news - there were a couple of mums on here that had warnings over their photos weren't there? One I saw was in now way obscene and could see no nipple!

So if their photo privacy settings are set to only friends being able to see them who is complaining?

SnowOfHands · 30/12/2008 14:51

I've been a member of the group challenging this on fb for a looooong time. There's a pic of me bfing on fb. My hat I'm sporting is more offensive than the nature of feeding tbh.

JulesJules · 30/12/2008 16:43

Why, is your hat covered in nipples, Snow?

I particularly like facebook defending themselves with "It's important the site is safe and secure for children" WTF do they imagine bf does?

SummatAnNowt · 30/12/2008 16:53

I guess they have tiny little baby masks to cover the innocent eyes of the child while the nipple is in it's mouth!

MascaraOHara · 30/12/2008 17:00

IS there a FB gtoup to overturn the decision?

AliceTheCamelHasGotTheHump · 30/12/2008 17:00

My profile pic is of me bfing! Wasn't being controversial, it's just a nice pic of me (and a true representation as I've probably spent more time over the past few years with a baby on my boob than not!)

belgo · 30/12/2008 17:01

I've already left facebook for those and other reasons FA.

Flihgtattendant · 30/12/2008 17:07

It's a bit poor really isn't it Belgo.

I already left one time then rejoined to find someone I wanted to contact.
I don't go on it at all now, really. I think my friends have got pissed off with my lack of 'status updates'!!

TinselBaublesMistletoe · 30/12/2008 17:17

Petition group

SOH, are you a regular on the group?

Soup, there are a lot of pictures that have been taken down and they're not showing anything at all, it's only from the angle of the baby etc that you know what's happening.

The main problem is the inconsitency. They allow adverts with soft porn pictures, groups and applications that are pornographic and their terms don't explicitly state that they apply to women so why are they allowing pictures of barechested men?

onebatmotherofgoditschilly · 30/12/2008 17:45

Oh jeezum, didn't this come up last year??
I joined that petition group at that time - can't believe they're still being arses about it.

I think I'll de-reg and tell them why. It's dull as buggery anyway - makes me feel as though I'm trying to be adolescent again

RockinSockBunnies · 30/12/2008 17:55

Aaagghh! Has anyone seen the inane comments made by people in the light of the Facebook row? Check out the 16.44 comment by 'Sam' on the AlphaMummy Blog "here"
Apparently breastfeeding is dangerous and formula far superior .

TinselBaublesMistletoe · 30/12/2008 17:55

It's come up again because there has been an IRL nurse-in at FBHQ and an online nurse-in with people changing their profile pics and status messages.

whomovedmychocolate · 30/12/2008 19:42

Hopefully Darwinian selection will do away with Sam in due time RockinSockbunnies!

I dunno, I wouldn't put breastfeeding pics up on FB because I have had enough of my MiL gawping at my tits but I disagree with preventing others who wish to doing so.

Facebook is becoming turgid and so rigidly up itself - letting racist, homophobic and sexist groups start up but then shooting down photo albums which probably can only be seen by the person's friends and frankly if your mates are offended they can defriend you and not look

whomovedmychocolate · 30/12/2008 19:43

BTW - folks, there is a sneaky way round this policy - if you use the photobox interface to link to photos then they are hosted elsewhere and FB can't remove them from Photoboxes servers without notice.

randomxmas · 30/12/2008 19:45

I can't see how it's possible to confuse bf with pornographic images. How can people be so stupid?

TinselBaublesMistletoe · 30/12/2008 19:51

whomoved there have been loads removed from private albums, a lot of members of the petition only joined and posted their pictures to the group when they had their private pictures removed. I would be very angry if a friend of mine reported my breastfeeding picture.

randomxmas, I think the people who find them pornographic are more concerning, what does it say about that person?

whomovedmychocolate · 30/12/2008 19:52

private albums on facebook though? They couldn't access and remove your photobox pix without access to your password - though they could conceivably remove the links but I've seen people get round posting rules this way. Still sucks whichever way.