Facebook Nudity Policy Draws Nursing Moms' Ire

HSRD writes "Web-savvy moms who breast-feed are irate that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace restrict photos of nursing babies. The disputes reveal how the sites' community policing techniques sometimes struggle to keep up with the booming number and diversity of their members."

Comments

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[nutznboltz]

If you want to post your breastfeeding pics why not do it where it's welcome?

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[WhatAmIDoingHere]

There's a difference between a statue and a picture of real tits. The rule is simple. If you do not like the rule, go somewhere else. The fact that it wouldn't be "easy" for you to build up a network of all your friends isn't Facebook's issue, it's yours.

TLDR: Follow the rules or GTFO.

Re:whois nudebook.com

[synthespian]

So should Facebook officially be considered an Anti-Tits site?

Prospective users beware - in particular if you're fertile and have tits.

BTW, how is this any different from a racist site, or any other type of bigotry? "Sorry, no Jews on this site." I know I kinda stretched it, but what's this prejudice about?

What is the fucking rationale for Facebook to be up against this natural human act? Have they all been bottlefed?

Facebook developers please get psych counsel.

Shut up, crybabies.

[girlintraining]

Sorry, but speaking for at least myself and most of my female friends, this kind of thing is really annoying. I'm all for private places for new mothers to nurse their kids at work -- the so-called "lactation rooms". If that fails, many women's restrooms (especially in pre-1980s buildings) have areas to lay or sit down inside. And single-occupancy restrooms are not hard to find. Yay for women's lib, right? O_O You have plenty of options to protect your dignity (and my eyes). If I find you in the bathroom doing your thing, I'm not going to say anything--You and I both have seen worse.

The flip here is there is no excuse for anyone to have to look at your dirty pillows. Save it for the bedroom, or the shower, or the locker, or please god anywhere but online or in public where I can stumble into it. And to all the boys sniggering in back or making the usual comments talking about this entails, kindly STFU. Posting pictures of frontal nudity of any kind is (and rightly should be) banned from websites where people can casually come across it! You want to show your friends that stuff *fine*. Send it in an e-mail or put it in a photo album but for crissakes don't post it on the internet. Most people have the common sense to never let someone take naked pictures of them, but if you're one of the few whose elevators don't go to the top floor, at least think of your decency. Or my eyes.

Re:Shut up, crybabies.

[girlintraining]

A restroom isn't a toilet, you idiot. And it's not any dirtier than the inside of your car, that bench in the lobby, or most public places which by their nature are crawling with germs anyway. Restrooms are probably the cleanest places you can find in public areas because they're one of the few that are regularly sanitized. But I mean, by all means, go ahead and get morally outraged because some of us would like to walk around in public without seeing people taking off their shirts and nursing their babies in front of large crowds. What next, getting morally outraged because I don't want to see you having sex with someone? I mean, after all.. That's perfectly natural too. So is masturbation.

Re:Shut up, crybabies.

[Anonymous Coward]

Let me guess, you're one of those fat chicks whose saggy tits no-one wants to look at anyway.

No, I assume (s)he is a biological male with new perky false tits no-one wants to look at anyway. Therefore the name.

Re:Shut up, crybabies.

[girlintraining]

Nice try, but it ignores one thing: Personal responsibility. If you can't bring a blanket and cover yourself up, go somewhere where we don't have to see you. This reinforces the notion that next time you'll bring a blanket! I fail to see how a lack of planning on their part constitutes a legitimate reason to expose themselves in front of me. -_- My argument, however morally distasteful you might find it pins the responsibility on the mother. But you and so many other people think that the moment someone pops a baby out of their crotch they're entitled to special exemption from the morals the rest of us are expected to uphold.

I say no. Bring the damn blanket.

Mothers need to grow up.

[geekmux]

For you breastfeeding mothers out there, I really thought you could be much more mature about your pictures and realize that neither Facebook or MySpace is the place for such content.

Oh, and this has nothing to do with "diversity", so lets not even get sidetracked with trying to shoehorn that BS in the justification.

I'm quite certain, even without looking, that there are plenty of websites/blogs that would more than welcome such content and "camaraderie" between mothers.

Re:Why is this news?

[Holi]

Are you serious??? Oh I guess cuz it's on the internet Common Carrier must be involved. Look read up on what constitutes common carrier status and stop mentioning it until you understand.

Re:Why is this news?

[girlintraining]

...1, and zero. The first amendment covers free speech and expression. Unless your tits are part of a comedy act, or are engaging in political protest, I don't see how the first amendment applies. And frankly, I think these breeders ought to have the cuffs thrown on them and dragged out of the stores they do this crap in. If you're going to arrest boys for showing their ass cleavage with baggy pants, don't get all squeamish about cuffing a girl for showing her tits. It's sexist and I know more than a few women that would stand up and cheer the officer on for doing it. If we're going to say showing tits in public is illegal, then fine, no exceptions. Otherwise legalize it so we all can do it! I'm sick of these breeders and their crotch fruit acting like they're special or something because they popped out a baby. No, you're not... It's not a miracle it happened, it's a miracle society lets you. -_-

Exhibitionism

[Xistenz99]

For some reason I think that the whole nursing the child pics and such are just a form of exhibitionism. YOu can take those pics, but thats what you want to show your friends, why not loving pictures of you holding your child. People saying its natural are right, however the focus of the picture isn't on the child as it is the mother, which makes in a selfish picture and negates the reason you wanted to show the picture, which is the importance of your child. These women obviously get some sort of gratification from showing some skin and the attention.

Strawman!

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks for playing the strawman game, you nigger faced jew.

Re:The nudity laws are unfair

[Kindaian]

Legally... where?

The legality of something depends of the place and the local laws.

But in "America" everything is forbidden now.

Re:Facebook markets to moms

[DNS-and-BIND]

The forces of diversity and multiculturalism are rather hostile to families. It comes from the idea that we're ruining the planet, and making more humans is one of the worst things that anyone could ever do.