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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
[...] Facebook's naughty bits police have been active for some years.
They ensure, for example, that human eyes don't have to witness a doll's nipples or even works of art.
It seems, though, the company continues to struggle with the difference between real body parts and those that have been created by human hands.
As the Telegraph reports, Italian writer Elisa Barbari decided to use a picture of a local Bologna icon -- the statue of Neptune -- on her Facebook page.
Facebook, however, seems to have found it a touch too risqué.
Barbari said she received a message from Facebook's censors that said, in part, her image contained "content that is explicitly sexual and which shows to an excessive degree the body, concentrating unnecessarily on body parts."
[...] This is merely the latest brouhaha involving Facebook's censors. In September, the company removed an iconic image of a naked child during the Vietnam War that had appeared on a Norwegian newspaper's Facebook page.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Knowledge Troll on Friday January 06 2017, @12:42AM
News at 23:00
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @12:46AM
News reported Facebook Live from inside your own ass.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by TheGratefulNet on Friday January 06 2017, @02:19AM
yes, retarded and for retards. but that's not the point.
the point is that they are owned by advertisers and once that happens, its a least-common-denom game, where the church ladies who clutch their pearls get more (most) of the say and the advertisers just don't want to lose ANY of those sweet, sweet sales dollars.
american tv follows the same pattern. what goes on tv is what is preferred and allowed by the sponsors. if sponsors want something removed, it gets removed.
knowing that, I have never partaken of the FB experience. don't have an account, don't even know what the main page looks like. could not care less.
sad that so many people are now starting to think that FB == internet, and that they are convinced they can't live without FB. FB has huge numbers and so, gets a lot of say that affects a lot of people. I find that a bit dangerous, to be honest. so much power all concentrated in one company. I know of a few other companies like that, too, and its just as bad.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @04:08PM
Exactly. Don't use Hitlerbook and tell all your friends not to as well.
It's their playground, they make all the retarded rules. You're just a piece of meat for them.