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Two weeks ago, if a photograph of an actively breastfeeding mother with nipples exposed was shared in Facebook, that photograph would have violated the company's guidelines regarding nudity and obscenity and been removed. According to my conversations with Facebook spokespeople, as the result of a quiet policy change made two weeks ago, that is no longer the case. The female nipple ban no longer exists for breastfeeding mothers, which should make many people who have been pushing the company to address a nudity double standard at least partially happy.
Last year, when Jaclyn Friedman, Laura Bates and I organized a social media campaign challenging Facebook to recognize gender-based hate, the public focus of the initiative was on revealing the ways in which content depicting gross violations of women's human rights -- rapes, domestic battering, widespread violence against women -- were being treated as, among other things, harmless jokes. After five days, 60,000 tweets and 15 advertisers leaving the platform, Facebook acknowledged the problem and committed to addressing it. We've developed a productive working relationship and continued to work on policies related to free speech and violence against women on their platform.......................................... ..........................
For more info:
http://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-actually-sorry-for-banning-breastfeeding-pic/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/freethenipple-facebook-changes_b_5473467.html
Last year, when Jaclyn Friedman, Laura Bates and I organized a social media campaign challenging Facebook to recognize gender-based hate, the public focus of the initiative was on revealing the ways in which content depicting gross violations of women's human rights -- rapes, domestic battering, widespread violence against women -- were being treated as, among other things, harmless jokes. After five days, 60,000 tweets and 15 advertisers leaving the platform, Facebook acknowledged the problem and committed to addressing it. We've developed a productive working relationship and continued to work on policies related to free speech and violence against women on their platform.......................................... ..........................
For more info:
http://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-actually-sorry-for-banning-breastfeeding-pic/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/freethenipple-facebook-changes_b_5473467.html