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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts) Fri Jun 13, 2014, 12:33 PM Jun 2014

Facebook Lifts Ban on Exposed Nipples in Breastfeeding Pictures

This just in from Time magazine/huffington post uK

DU is once again ahead the curve
or not.

Posted: 12/06/2014 09:31 BST | Updated: 12/06/2014 13:59 BST

It appears Facebook has withdrawn its ban on female nipples in photos of breastfeeding mothers.

Facebook has drawn heat from feminists for considering images of topless women as violations of their policies against nudity and obscenity —even when the photographs depict breastfeeding mothers.

Feminist writer Soraya Chemaly brought attention to the policy change on The Huffington Post, noting that the social media company had quietly changed its policy on obscene content in regard to breastfeeding mothers. Images that include the exposed nipples of breastfeeding can now be posted on the site without the risk of removal.

http://time.com/2869849/facebook-breastfeeding-nipples/

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Facebook Lifts Ban on Exposed Nipples in Breastfeeding Pictures (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Jun 2014 OP

Just as long as they're carefully labeled NSFW LadyHawkAZ Jun 2014 #1

This changes everything!! Michigander_Life Jun 2014 #3

NOPE..... NSFW is not needed Ichingcarpenter Jun 2014 #4

My sarcasm circuit has not yet been properly jump-started with coffee LadyHawkAZ Jun 2014 #5

I thought it was but Ichingcarpenter Jun 2014 #6

I guess them working folks will just have to stay out of dirty ol facebook. CBGLuthier Jun 2014 #2

Last year the SCAR project post-masectomy picks getting banned... HereSince1628 Jun 2014 #7

LadyHawkAZ

(6,199 posts)

1. Just as long as they're carefully labeled NSFW

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Fri Jun 13, 2014, 12:39 PM

Jun 2014

In case anyone happens to be reading their FB on the office computer during work hours.

Michigander_Life

(549 posts)

3. This changes everything!!

Reply to LadyHawkAZ (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 13, 2014, 12:45 PM

Jun 2014

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)

4. NOPE..... NSFW is not needed

Reply to LadyHawkAZ (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 13, 2014, 12:46 PM

Jun 2014

so you need to be......
anyway here's the huffingtonpost.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/11/facebook-breastfeeding-photo-ban-lifted-freethenipple-campaign-pictures_n_5484788.html

LadyHawkAZ

(6,199 posts)

5. My sarcasm circuit has not yet been properly jump-started with coffee

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Reply #4)

Fri Jun 13, 2014, 12:55 PM

Jun 2014

and is glitching slightly. I should have used the tag.

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)

6. I thought it was but

Reply to LadyHawkAZ (Reply #5)

Fri Jun 13, 2014, 01:00 PM

Jun 2014

others might have taken it seriously

So I had to do the 'big NOPE''

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)

2. I guess them working folks will just have to stay out of dirty ol facebook.

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Fri Jun 13, 2014, 12:40 PM

Jun 2014

Lest their co workers be shocked and get them fired for their filthy nipple displays.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)

7. Last year the SCAR project post-masectomy picks getting banned...

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Fri Jun 13, 2014, 01:05 PM

Jun 2014

and FB later relented.

http://www.today.com/tech/mastectomy-portraits-banned-facebook-amid-image-censor-confusion-6C10193796

Mastectomy portraits banned from Facebook amid image censor confusion
Suzanne Choney NBC News

June 4, 2013 at 6:46 PM ET

The SCAR Project Facebook page
SCAR Project / Facebook

The backers of The SCAR Project, which aims to raise public awareness about breast cancer by sharing powerful photos of young women and the scars they have from their mastectomies, say Facebook pulled some of the photos from the project's longtime Facebook page because of concerns about nudity.

One of The SCAR Project's supporters filed a petition on Change.org a few weeks ago, asking Facebook to change its policy so that the photos — some very graphic, showing nipples that have been surgically reconstructed — will stop being considered in the same category as pornography.

David Jay, the photographer who founded The SCAR Project several years ago as an "exercise in awareness, hope, reflection and healing," told NBC News Tuesday that he had recently added 24 photos to the Facebook page, spurred by Angelina Jolie's "very brave decision" and public disclosure about her own double ...

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