Thousands of Mothers Protest Facebook
The Politics of Facebook
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Over 85,000 mothers have begun protesting Facebook since last Tuesday for the fact that Facebook has been removing photographs of mothers nursing their young in photos. A group called "Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!" has attracted record numbers in such a short time and is calling for Facebook to stop their removals.
For weeks now, mothers have found their Facebook pictures removed without notice and e-mails dispatched saying they may be banned from the website for showing "obscene pictures".
A Facebook spokesperson said, "We take no action on the vast majority of breastfeeding photos because they follow the site's terms of use", he said, but concluded that some photos were removed to ensure the site remains safe for all users, including children.
This last Saturday the group held an online debate where they publicly and verbally opposed the "new order" that Facebook is beginning to enforce. Also, at the Facebook main office, mothers held a massive nursing session where people came and did the literally and also came to sing together.
I believe Facebook is not only doing the right thing, but they are asking pretty reasonable things from these folks. Since they broke the Terms of Service that they agreed to upon signing up, it is within their rights to remove that content.
Terms of Service:
"upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available any content that we deem to be harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, obscene, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;"
Code of Conduct:
Therefore, you may not post or share Content that: is obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit
However, I do see their point of it not being "obscene", but what Facebook is saying is they are just showing too much. I'm not sure if there is really any middle ground here, but what do you think Facebook and the mothers should be doing in this situation? Do you think it is right for Facebook to be denying these women the rights of displaying these photos?
Source: Strait
