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Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says

posted by cmn32480 on Friday January 06 2017, @12:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the even-computers-can-have-dirty-minds dept.

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.

The fountain in question.

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Friday January 06 2017, @02:24AM

    by Bot (3902) on Friday January 06 2017, @02:24AM (#450055) Journal

    The idea is to call non-whites humans, until human becomes an offensive word.
    Do not mess with my AI, I know what I am doing.

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday January 06 2017, @02:27AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday January 06 2017, @02:27AM (#450056) Homepage

    No, the media's preferred euphemism is "youths" and more recently "teenagers" in response to the nigger flash-mobs in malls.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @03:09AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @03:09AM (#450069)

      Any updates on the chimpouts?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @03:22AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @03:22AM (#450071)

        Why ask Ethan for updates when you can just change the channel to Facebook Live?