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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."
What, pictures of babies eating is harmful to children?
Eating babies maybe, but why babies eating?
If I have nothing to hide, don't search me
Obviously those infants are being exploited into performing sexual acts in front of a camera. You're damn right those pictures should be removed, think of the children!
Murphey's fighting Occam, and we're in the stands.
Let's keep our heads cool. I strongly suggest that we gather more data before recommending a change to the laws.
My tits my be considered part of a comedy act, but I would think it more appropriate to invoke the Eighth amendment rather than the First.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
"If you want to post your breastfeeding pics why not do it where it's welcome?"
Toss them up on 4chan, where they will be treated with respect and archived for generations yet unborn.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
No bare breasts. What's gray about that?
Will they ban beach pics of fat uncle Tony who has gynecomastia wearing just his shorts?
More unfortunate would be the women with really puffy areaolae or the ones with the really big, stretched-out pancake areaolae.
Funny that you mention this. One time, my girlfriend and her best friend were tickling each other (yes, I know how hot that is) and her friend's shirt and bra came down just a little bit. Her areolae were like saucers. They were absolutely enormous. I made a joke about it, and she didn't talk to me for a month.
Big silver-dollar areolae require no explanation as they would be impossible to hide unless the baby is hydrocephalic.
When she started to act embarrassed I say "It's ok. I swear I didn't see anything. Not even your big silver-dollar pancake sized areola."
When she got angry, I tried to mitigate with little effect. I said "I didn't say that they were nice, they're just big".
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Do you realize that for every one of us there are two, count them, TWO nipples? And almost half of us have some serious fatty tissue behind those nipples! I mean we can't have children seeing the things can we? Keep their shirst on! I mean the single best thing for a newborn to suckle on should be shameful and weird. Babies eat from bottles right? And watching a baby nurse ... well I know all kinds of people that it turns on ... OK not even one. Its a bewb - BAN it!
Slashdot, where armchair scientists get shouted down and armchair theologians get modded up.
I think its ridiculous--but its how our society evolved.
No, that's how our society was intelligently designed. Get it right.
Yoda of Borg am I! Assimilated shall you be! Futile resistance is, hmm?
What the hell is a mammel?
/irony
It's poetry with a beat behind it! And guns! They're like beatniks with automatic weapons.
dear god, I hope so!
Bet it tasted good when you had a couple of dozen braincells firing away going NOMNOMNOM.
still does, man...
Stop Computers/Cars Analogies on S
Intelligence plays no part in it.
Ginga no Rekshiya Mata Each page.
That's because it's _cold_. I'm looking at the weathermap of Ontario right now, and parts of Ontario are -20 degrees, Fahrenheit.
There's a difference between a statue and a picture of real tits.
Not according to the government.
Will they ban beach pics of fat uncle Tony who has gynecomastia wearing just his shorts?
I hope so.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
How about the obvious? Sometimes, babies need to eat wherever they are, regardless of social setting. No one NEEDS to have sex at any particular time. And, I'll add that if you think watching a couple have sex is as equally disconcerting as a mother breastfeeding, you may want to move to the nearest monastery. Nothing there should ever disconcert you.
Monastery? While that might solve his problem, that is only treating the symptoms.
If you find the sight of a mother breastfeeding highly disconcerting, you should probably see a psychologist. Your subconscious is clearly grappling with something unpleasant...
A government is a body of people notably ungoverned - AC
No. And neither did you.
Fortunately, nobody has to move just yet. Your comment just raised the quality of /. up just enough to keep us going a little longer.
internet rule number 5: when you have no valid argument, attack spelling and grammar.
You forgot to capitalize the first word of that sentence ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
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Somehow I find the idea of unmarried Monks, Priests and Alter-boys more disconcerting than breastfeeding in public.
Apocalypse Cancelled, Sorry, No Ticket Refunds
Look, breast feeding a 2 month old because it is hungry is just caring for your child. Having a 3 or 4 year old who has been eating solid foods for years suck on your nipples because it feels good is a sexual act. Getting your nipples sucked because it feels good is pretty universally considered a sexual act. If you don't consider it a sexual act, then I would love to get to know your wife. Will it also not be a sexual act if she returns the favor by sucking on parts of me? Whoo Hoo! Party at CrackedButters' house!
This was a remarkably stupid statement even by slashdot standards. Last I checked, human males were "seriously perverted".
Yes, well ... it's a relative condition. In fact, sometimes it involves relatives.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
I don't know what shady part of town you hang out in, but I have NEVER had a con artist try to breastfeed me in order to win my trust.
Not that it might not work....
So, you've demonstrated that a clitoris is hard to find, and that dicks are everywhere. Not exactly an earthshattering revelation, is it?
Hey ! I think your onto something there :
I think that just goes to show how stupid and dangerous it is to allow a central authority to gain such control, especially when there are other alternatives. {...} No, the real (but difficult) solution is to convince Facebook's users to start building a truly distributed social network, so that there is no one entity which gets to decide what's acceptable and what isn't
I smell a great business plan !~
We could, you know, imagine a distributed content system. With each content linked to each other.
Doesn't need to be complicated.
Sort of just text documents with pictures in them. But in addition of that with links between them : like some *advanced text*. All connected in all direction like some higher dimensional figure. But I can't find a name for it yet~
But that sure is going to be a lot of complicated data. Maybe we should hire some guys to help us develop this linked-text format. I've heard that the people at the LHC have to deal with lots of data to publish on a regular basis. Maybe they could help us design with format~
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