The haste with which Facebook is trying to clean up any trace of nudity on the site could be a motivation as simple as it is petty. On February 1, 2012, Facebook made its first public offering for listing on the stock exchange. Investors expected the site to be rated somewhere between 75 and 100 billion dollars. When the financial stakes become so high, freedom of expression loses its importance, taking the road right to privacy.

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I agree @ned - Nudity and censorship

Facebook Position

The social network(facebook) has created a bad reputation over time after being removed with excessive zeal graphic nudity considered by its rules, unacceptable. In February 2013, for example, drew a picture of a breast cancer survivor (pictured), where a tattoo covering his entire bare chest; FB censored a picture of an elbow that looked like a breast, and removed a caricature of Adam and Eve in The New Yorker magazine account. Other controversial ban was linked to pictures of women suckling and sparked disapproval "Iactivists" - mothers who defend the right to breastfeeding in public spaces. Facebook admitted that he exaggerated in such cases, 'he apologized' and defended his report saying that receives millions of sites (kind of accusation) users who report content network sites that contravene the rules. So sometimes they are “ wrong”.

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Amazing Breast Cancer Tattoo Taken Off of Facebook for Violating Nudity Policy

Such mistakes regarding nudity have affected the image of mannequins without clothes nude drawings of the Academy of Art in New York or Courbet's painting, The Origin of the world. Abduction of Proserpine (n.r. - pictured), a classical sculpture by Bernini, is found in the Borghese Gallery in Rome since 1621 "Not on some Facebook accounts closed after it was reported that indecent". Many users are obfuscate that, often, the social network is not the difference between pornography and nudity as a form of artistic expression and activism, despite freedom of expression should enjoy its members.

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Testimonials from inside

Users do not know clearly what are the criteria of their contents. Amine Derkaoui, a Moroccan aged 21 years who worked as moderator content to Facebook, has infuriated social network because it was paid $ 1 per hour for a company that Facebook had outsourced activity censorship that is to match reports. In a revenge, Amine sent publication Gawker internal documents that showed how the social network censor content deemed inappropriate by a small army of moderators as Derkaoui. I list only some of the directives on sex and nudity, the rest you can see here.

So was forbidden any obvious sexual activity, even if naked parts [of the body] covered by hands, clothing or other objects (were included cartoons / art). Prelude (kissing, fondling, etc.), however, was permitted, even for same sex - this after, in April 2011, Facebook has censored the kiss between two men, network charges of homophobia. He was not allowed to display bare intimate parts including the female nipples and ass crack, male nipples are OK, pixelated content depicting nudity or sexual activity as those above, nursing mothers naked or people who use the bathroom. But artistic nudity was accepted.

The excuse

Facebook does not have enough men to watch all the content, most cases occur following complaints punishment (report sites) that make them members say some users. From the text we learn that Gawker published by teams that included moderators and Amine Derkaoui use an online tool to see a stream of photos, videos and wall posts on sites that have been reported by users; either upholds moderators, leading to removal of content, or a crippled, where the content remains either a Facebook send employees to a higher level of moderation. Some users we spoke and were faced with the content to say that it would take several complaints from other users to remove content. At first social network offender issue a warning and delete the contents, then after several deviations shall suspend the account for a certain period of time. In this case, the user banned can not post, comment or like on Facebook, but can send private messages to other users and track content. Some users, after repeated suspensions, they no longer be able to recover the account and are forced to make a new one, while other users that show nudity on their wall sites may remain unpunished.

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One of the photos which for was suspended for the Facebook account of a photographer

Violence is everywhere and free, but not nude or sexuality, that is the problem all media

Shortly after his appointment as Prime Minister of Britain, David Cameron wanted to seek the advice of someone who "understands what being responsible to the hundreds of millions of people." He has not given meeting, as you would expect, with another experienced head of government. He organized instead a widely publicized video chat with Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook (photo below), as the leaders of two great nations. At the time, Facebook had 850 million active users. If it were a country, it was 3rd in the world after China and India. You say that Facebook is not just a social network, privately owned, so the editorial policies are at the mercy of their owners.

Really? As long as half of global Internet users have an account on Facebook and all of its editorial content is created, we can expect the site to have at least a moral duty to their fundamental rights. In contrast, Facebook will ask you if you want to change how your page looks or if you agree that your private life to appear on the wall and feeds "friends" your. Instead, if you put a sexy picture or friends with too many people, I'm out. You write to ask why, you get an automatic response of which are only that "you are wrong".

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