Mothers against Facebook breast-feeding ban

BrittG | Jan 06, 2009 | 0 | Posted in Everything Else

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updated 6:31 a.m. PT, Tues., Dec. 30, 2008
Are photographs of a mother breast-feeding her child indecent?

The social networking site Facebook has sparked a massive online debate — and protests — and after removing photos that expose too much of a mother's breast.

Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said the Web site takes no action over most breast-feeding photos because they follow the site's terms of use but others are removed to ensure the site remains safe and secure for all users, including children.

"Photos containing a fully exposed breast (as defined by showing the nipple or areola) do violate those terms (on obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit material) and may be removed," he said in a statement.

"The photos we act upon are almost exclusively brought to our attention by other users who complain."

But Facebook's decision to ban some breast-feeding photos has angered some users, including U.S. mother Kelli Roman whose photograph of her feeding her daughter was removed by Facebook.

Roman is one of the administrators of an online petition called "Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!" which has picked up speed in the past week after protesters organized a virtual "nurse-in" on Facebook and held a small demonstration outside Facebook's office in Palo Alto, California

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For all you breastfeeding moms, what are your thoughts??