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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."
(Score: 2, Interesting) by butthurt on Sunday January 22 2017, @12:48AM
The artist described the photos as showing "what looks like nipples." That makes me somewhat uncertain what the photos actually showed. My impression is that they showed women's breasts after significant amounts of tissue had been surgically removed, and after the artist had applied tattoos to them. "What looks like nipples," I'm guessing, were photos of nipples. That, in my opinion, is nudity. This looks to me like Facebook correctly followed their policy, then reversed themselves when it proved controversial. Previous examples were the "napalm girl" photo and the Italian statue (can't be arsed to look them up, but we had stories about those). They seem to be striking a balance that minimises lawsuits from people whose nudes were posted against their wishes, advertisers who don't wish to be associated with smut, and bad press from suppression of nudity that has a high-minded purpose. As much as I despise Facebook, I hesitate to condemn them here.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 22 2017, @12:59AM
"What looks like nipples," I'm guessing, were photos of nipples.
"What looks like nipples", I'm fairly sure, are tats that look convincingly like nipples. That is, the nipples are gone, but if the lady allowed you to see her breasts, you would believe (at least initially) that she had normal breasts, aureoles, and nipples. The visual may fail after a few moments, or not. An actual inspection would fail. And, the touch test would certainly fail. But, casual viewing would leave you believing that her anatomy was complete and correct.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday January 22 2017, @01:46AM
This [dailymail.co.uk] is likely what the article is about. I don't understand what all the fuss is about, it basically looks like the upper torso of a man.
I'm guessing the censor was more put-off by the scars rather than the nipples, and/or confused it for some kind of fetishistic mutilation (known as BME).
My Grandma actually had both of her boobs removed. First one, then the other. And she was more than happy to show anybody who was curious, often unbuttoning her shirt on the spot to brag about her battle-scars. I guess surviving the Great Depression will do that to a person.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 22 2017, @03:43AM
https://www.facebook.com/kerry.soraci?pnref=story [facebook.com]
Scroll down. Some images are obviously entirely "innocent", others are very convincing portrayals of breasts. Scroll far enough, you'll find a couple before and after photos. She can take a man-looking chest, and put very convincing images onto it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 22 2017, @05:15AM
Thank you both. I get it now.
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butthurt
(Score: 1) by Chrontius on Monday January 23 2017, @01:25AM
I'm guessing the censor was more put-off by the scars rather than the nipples, and/or confused it for some kind of fetishistic mutilation (known as BME).
I'm going to correct you here - BME is the Body-Modification E-Zine, a website that publishes photos and descriptions, testimonials and videos about a broad range of body-modification. Some of it is decorative, some of it is fetishized, and some of it is medical in nature.
(Score: 3, Informative) by purple_cobra on Sunday January 22 2017, @02:30PM
This from the POV of an administration worker in the UK's NHS, so of course all other countries/healthcare services will vary...
Post-mastectomy, women should (if appropriate to their individual case) be offered the option of reconstructive surgery and a nipple tattoo is part of that. Having one or both breasts removed is traumatic and a bare minimum reconstruction - i.e. a breast without a nipple - can make them feel just as bad as there being no breast there at all because it looks fake. It's a pretty specialised branch of the tattoo artists' work but it brings a worthwhile amount of psychological benefit to women who have had breast tissue removed. From a purely financial point of view, this is money well-spent as it helps to prevent issues with depression related to body image. It's also the right thing to do in terms of helping the patient through what is a shitty experience.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 22 2017, @03:26AM
I don't care if they showed nipples or not; Facebook is worthless and prudish (same thing really) if they have rules against that to begin with. But really, absolutely no one should be using that massive surveillance engine to begin with.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday January 22 2017, @12:22PM
That, in my opinion, is nudity.
I'm a guy, and I have what look like nipples...
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(Score: 1) by butthurt on Monday January 23 2017, @12:27AM
I hadn't understood that the tattoos were intended to resemble nipples. I do understand that men can get breast cancer. I'm glad you're all right (?).
(Score: 3, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Monday January 23 2017, @08:15AM
Oh, no, the things I have which look like nipples are actually nipples.
PS nipples
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