Blimey - Facebook has removed our picture of a baby being breastfed...

[KateMumsnet]

Many of you will remember the recent kerfuffle involving a breastfeeding mother being told by Claridge's staff to cover herself (and her baby) up with a napkin. It generated lots of discussion on MN, and we duly posted a link to the thread on our Facebook page, accompanied by this image of a baby being breastfed.

We were more than a bit taken aback to discover this morning that the post has been removed - apparently for failing to follow Facebook's community standards. Find out more over here - and if you think this is as bonkers as we do, do feel free to share!

xalyssx a lady breastfeeding a goat?!

Can you get it somehow linked to your viral meringues?

www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mother-tongue/11298969/Mumsnet-breastfeeding-photo-is-banned-by-Facebook.html

The Telegraph have picked it up...

It's pathetic that FB ban such pictures. I reported a comment the other as a friend said something pleasant about Germany (she is German) and some idiot responded with a picture of Hitler and the comment "Hitler would like that"
FB allows that even though it upset her and others.

YABU to be on FB.

And Facebook strongly defended the right to post videos of beheadings

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24608499

Did they specify why it's been removed?

What a gorgeous picture. They are nuts - they allow spam posts for dating sites that do (IMO) have inappropriate pictures.

God yes - I'd forgotten about the videos of beheadings

Absolutely ridiculous. I'm glad one national newspaper has picked it up already. Maybe we can shame FB into sense....

FB need to re-think removing this image. They are reinforcing the fact that breasts are only sexual objects. I have seen more explicit sexualised images than the one above posted on FB.

Unbelievable. I am sure most people won't be happy until breastfeeding is banned.

Makes me more determined to be as ostentatious as possible about breastfeeding in public - and even more so for longer!

Just to cheer you up - this cafe notice made it onto the News Quiz.

That should have read 'some' people not 'most'. I would hope there are some decent people who treasure and support breastfeeding and our right to do so

This is ridiculous ffs

Talk about taking a step backwards

Failbook at its finest

Shared on fb, some of the bloody horrible things that are allowed on there!

Another reason to avoid FB.

I'm surprised they would be silly enough to be censoring breastfeeding pictures now, with all of the publicity of the recent Claridges incident and the embarrassment caused to them over the similar removal of a mum's bfing picture not that long ago.

If Facebook removed it, that means that someone must have reported it! What kind of person finds this picture offensive

Recently one of my Facebook friends posted a nude picture of herself (she's a photographer) but very shadowed so you couldn't possibly see anything sexual - certainly less than we see in many advertisements plastered everywhere. It was reported by several people and removed. People seem to find "real" female bodies offensive.

I've shared it with a pointed comment that Facebook will presumably see if any idiot complains.

I reported a link to a porno video clip last week and was told it does not break their guidelines.

I report Britain First on a daily basis. So far facebook have removed nothing. Fucking ridiculous then, to remove this.