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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, 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.