A pantyhose advertising of the American company VienneMilano is the last "victim" of his censorship Facebook. According to the complaint, which was posted on the company's website and circulated on the Internet, via… Twitter, its mechanisms Facebook did not allow her to upload a photo from her new ad campaign as she was considered "pornographic".
The photo was full-length and showed the model to wear only the brand new nylon socks of the company while it was profile, covering the "points of contention" with this attitude.
Is porn naked body?
"Yes, it's nude," the company admits, "but since when is nude automatically considered pornographic"? And he continues the rationale of the complaint: "The human body is a creation of beauty. Too bad Facebook doesn't agree! We realized this as he took her down picture us, considering that it was not 'compatible' with the 'terms of the community'. Frankly, we don't understand exactly how our photo violates these rules."
Facebook's rules under the Nude and Pornography Terms of Service say: "Facebook's policy is rigorous in the reporting of pornographic content and purely sexual content involving a minor. We also impose restrictions on naked viewing. We share and respect your right to share personal content: from photographs of a sculpture to family photos from breastfeeding a child. "
However, this general definition of "we impose restrictions" on naked content is what allows Facebook to mark every time what falls into the "pornographic" content.
There are not even a few cases where, despite the explicit reference, photographs have been taken with mothers to breastfeed their babies, or photographs of women who, in the context of breast cancer information, showed their mastectomy - and these were a giant of social networks, on the same grounds.
The reactions were, of course, stormy in the world, resulting in at least two of these cases, Facebook itself admitting publicly that "mistakes happen", while specifically for mastectomy, the announcement said: "The vast majority of these photos are compatible with our terms. But photographs showing a female chest naked, without the effects of a mastectomy, clearly violate Facebook's terms. "
The "teat movement"
However, after the grief caused by this event, women cancer patients and activists identified the problem of Facebook in the… nipple of the female breast!
Concluding that if a nipple is visible in a photo, the network considers it pornographic, they organized themselves into the "nipple movement" and are protesting, pressuring the American giant to revise its opinions on the issue of female nudity body and pornography.
Even a documentary focused on this issue in the media, entitled "Free the Nipple", by director Lina Esco, where the distinction between male and female chest is cast, the question arises clearly: "What is more obscene: violence or a nipple"?
Facebook is following our talks
In another case, Facebook itself informed the police that an adult user attempted to seduce a juvenile girl in Florida, the United States. The authorities visited the man and arrested him with incriminating details of his conversation in the social network with the minor.
It may be considered an "angelic act", saving an underage girl from the nets of a potential criminal, but since when is what we talk about in our private conversations evidence crime?
For this particular case, Facebook had clarified that "we have not 'set up' an environment where our employees monitor private conversations, but instead it is important for us to use technology that has a very low risk of failure", meaning that it has also developed implements technology that detects "suspicious" dialogs in its environment.
The debate about Facebook and the censorship it imposes on its content has been heated. At the same time that -almost every day- we learn about another crime committed through Facebook, from the seduction of a minor, to the recently "popular" cyber bullying, interventions in the content that the user uploads to his profile, for many are a clear infringement of freedom of publication, even of privacy.
