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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."

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  1. Re:Damn Puritans by corsec67 · · Score: 4, Funny

    What, pictures of babies eating is harmful to children?

    Eating babies maybe, but why babies eating?

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  2. Have karma to burn by Xelios · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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  3. Re:Why is this news? by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unless your tits are part of a comedy act

    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.

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  4. Re:whois nudebook.com by glueball · · Score: 5, Funny

    No bare breasts. What's gray about that?
    Will they ban beach pics of fat uncle Tony who has gynecomastia wearing just his shorts?

  5. Re:The nudity laws are unfair by Lord+Kano · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

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  6. Re:Damn Puritans by NickDngr · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think its ridiculous--but its how our society evolved.

    No, that's how our society was intelligently designed. Get it right.

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  7. Re:Shut up, crybabies. by Isotopian · · Score: 4, Funny

    What the hell is a mammel?

    /irony

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  8. Re:whois nudebook.com by stypica · · Score: 5, Funny

    dear god, I hope so!

  9. Re:Damn Puritans by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's because it's _cold_. I'm looking at the weathermap of Ontario right now, and parts of Ontario are -20 degrees, Fahrenheit.

  10. Re:whois nudebook.com by nightfire-unique · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

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  11. Great Idea !!! You've got a business plan. by DrYak · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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