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posted by janrinok on Saturday January 21 2017, @11:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the overly-prudish-views dept.

An obligatory moment of bad press for Facebook and its censorship team comes to us from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Facebook says it made a mistake in disabling the accounts of an artist who posted images of tattoos that she created for breast cancer survivors following reconstruction. "A member of our team accidentally removed something you posted on Facebook. This was a mistake, and we sincerely apologize for they error," the social media site said in a message to Kerry Soraci. "We've since restored the content, and you should now be able to see it."

The note came after a story about Soraci's accounts was posted on stltoday.com Thursday afternoon, which launched other media inquiries into why Facebook took the action it did. "It is really annoying that we have to go through the media to get them to respond!" Sorachi told the Post-Dispatch Friday morning.

Facebook had disabled Soarci's page, Tattoos by Kerry Soraci, on Dec. 30, saying it did not meet the social media site's "community standards." "Your account has been disabled for not following the Facebook Community Standards, and we won't be able to reactivate it," Facebook's Steven Parker wrote in a response to Soraci. "We disable accounts that solicit others or feature content that is sexually suggestive/contains nudity."


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 22 2017, @12:46AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 22 2017, @12:46AM (#457188) Journal

    I think you missed it, EF. Puritan prudes in northern Europe weren't overly influenced by Islam. Take another look at the history of European colonization. We met a lot of peoples around the world who felt no shame about exposing their breasts. But, Europeans treated those people like savages, or animals. Europeans beat those people into submission, forcing their women to hide their breasts. I don't think you can blame Islam for all this crazy shit. There is plenty of other crazy shit we CAN blame on Islam.

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