Re: Facebook breastfeeding ban

On Dec 10, 2010, at 6:11 PM, Jon Louis Mann wrote:

> I have never heard of a Facebook rule outlawing pictures of women  
> breast feeding in public.

I don't know of any publicly stated rule, but I do know photos of  
women topless tend to vanish fairly quickly, and I'm certain of it in  
the cases where the photos show visible nipples.  I also know that any  
image can at any time be "reported" by anyone seeing it, and my  
suspicion is that it's less of an outright policy than it is a matter  
of how many people complain -- although i know of a few images that  
disappeared even though they were privacy-restricted in such a way  
that the only possible audience was clothing-optional-aware and I  
doubt there were any complaints to speak of, so I may very well be  
wrong.

The rules seem to be somewhat variable, and the only consistent cases  
seem to be ones with one or both nipples visible.  I know of one  
friend who has pushed that about as close to the limit as they seem to  
tolerate -- the one of her in *only* a skirt and pasties is still up,  
as far as I know.  Again, for the audience in question, unlikely to be  
objectionable.

Hard to say.  It's like probing a black box in some ways ..