Facebook Nudity Policy Draws Nursing Moms' Ire 904
HSRD writes "Web-savvy moms who breast-feed are irate that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace restrict photos of nursing babies. The disputes reveal how the sites' community policing techniques sometimes struggle to keep up with the booming number and diversity of their members."
Re:Damn Puritans (Score:5, Funny)
What, pictures of babies eating is harmful to children?
Eating babies maybe, but why babies eating?
Have karma to burn (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The nudity laws are unfair (Score:4, Funny)
Let's keep our heads cool. I strongly suggest that we gather more data before recommending a change to the laws.
Re:Why is this news? (Score:5, Funny)
My tits my be considered part of a comedy act, but I would think it more appropriate to invoke the Eighth [wikipedia.org] amendment rather than the First.
Re:whois nudebook.com (Score:4, Funny)
"If you want to post your breastfeeding pics why not do it where it's welcome?"
Toss them up on 4chan, where they will be treated with respect and archived for generations yet unborn.
Re:whois nudebook.com (Score:5, Funny)
No bare breasts. What's gray about that?
Will they ban beach pics of fat uncle Tony who has gynecomastia wearing just his shorts?
Re:The nudity laws are unfair (Score:4, Funny)
More unfortunate would be the women with really puffy areaolae or the ones with the really big, stretched-out pancake areaolae.
Funny that you mention this. One time, my girlfriend and her best friend were tickling each other (yes, I know how hot that is) and her friend's shirt and bra came down just a little bit. Her areolae were like saucers. They were absolutely enormous. I made a joke about it, and she didn't talk to me for a month.
Big silver-dollar areolae require no explanation as they would be impossible to hide unless the baby is hydrocephalic.
When she started to act embarrassed I say "It's ok. I swear I didn't see anything. Not even your big silver-dollar pancake sized areola."
When she got angry, I tried to mitigate with little effect. I said "I didn't say that they were nice, they're just big".
LK
Someone stop them! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Damn Puritans (Score:5, Funny)
I think its ridiculous--but its how our society evolved.
No, that's how our society was intelligently designed. Get it right.
Re:Shut up, crybabies. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:whois nudebook.com (Score:5, Funny)
dear god, I hope so!
Re:Shut up, crybabies. (Score:4, Funny)
Bet it tasted good when you had a couple of dozen braincells firing away going NOMNOMNOM.
still does, man...
Re:Damn Puritans (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Damn Puritans (Score:5, Funny)
Re:whois nudebook.com (Score:3, Funny)
There's a difference between a statue and a picture of real tits.
Not according to the government. [usatoday.com]
Re:whois nudebook.com (Score:1, Funny)
Will they ban beach pics of fat uncle Tony who has gynecomastia wearing just his shorts?
I hope so.
LK
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Re:Last year's news (Score:4, Funny)
Fortunately, nobody has to move just yet. Your comment just raised the quality of /. up just enough to keep us going a little longer.
Re:Shut up, crybabies. (Score:3, Funny)
internet rule number 5: when you have no valid argument, attack spelling and grammar.
You forgot to capitalize the first word of that sentence ;)
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Re:whois nudebook.com (Score:4, Funny)
Somehow I find the idea of unmarried Monks, Priests and Alter-boys more disconcerting than breastfeeding in public.
Re:You jest... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:whois nudebook.com (Score:4, Funny)
This was a remarkably stupid statement even by slashdot standards. Last I checked, human males were "seriously perverted".
Yes, well ... it's a relative condition. In fact, sometimes it involves relatives.
Re:whois nudebook.com (Score:2, Funny)
I don't know what shady part of town you hang out in, but I have NEVER had a con artist try to breastfeed me in order to win my trust.
Not that it might not work....
Re:Stupid double standard (Score:3, Funny)
So, you've demonstrated that a clitoris is hard to find, and that dicks are everywhere. Not exactly an earthshattering revelation, is it?
Great Idea !!! You've got a business plan. (Score:5, Funny)
Hey ! I think your onto something there :
I think that just goes to show how stupid and dangerous it is to allow a central authority to gain such control, especially when there are other alternatives. {...} No, the real (but difficult) solution is to convince Facebook's users to start building a truly distributed social network, so that there is no one entity which gets to decide what's acceptable and what isn't
I smell a great business plan !~
We could, you know, imagine a distributed content system. With each content linked to each other.
Doesn't need to be complicated.
Sort of just text documents with pictures in them. But in addition of that with links between them : like some *advanced text*. All connected in all direction like some higher dimensional figure. But I can't find a name for it yet~
But that sure is going to be a lot of complicated data. Maybe we should hire some guys to help us develop this linked-text format. I've heard that the people at the LHC have to deal with lots of data to publish on a regular basis. Maybe they could help us design with format~