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Subject: Facebook Nudity Policy Draws Nursing Moms' Ire
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 19:22:09 -0800
From: Alan Paganelli <alanandsuzanne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Facebook Nudity Policy Draws Nursing Moms' Ire
1, Jan 2009 14:00:01
-- 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.
Facebook began as a site just for college kids, but now it is an online
home for
140 million people from all over the world. Among the new faces of
Facebook are women
like Kelli Roman, 23, who last year posted a photo of herself nursing
one of her
two children.
One day, she logged on to find the photo missing. When she pressed
Facebook for an
explanation, she got form e-mails in return.
Facebook bars people from uploading anything "obscene, pornographic or
sexually explicit"
_ a policy that translates into a ban on pictures depicting certain
amounts of exposed
flesh.
Roman responded by starting a Facebook group called "Hey, Facebook,
breastfeeding
is not obscene!"
"There is nothing about bottle-feeding a child that has to be discreet,"
said Roman,
who lives in Fallbrook, Calif., in an interview. "With breast-feeding,
it should
be the exact same way."
Today the group _ part petition, part message board, part photo-sharing
hub _ has
more than 97,600 members.
One of them, Stephanie Muir of Ottawa, was new to Facebook when she
stumbled across
the group last year. Muir, a mother of five, does volunteer work related
to public
health and breast-feeding and said the issue is important to her.
"I think it's time we all get over this notion that women's breasts are
dangerous
and harmful for children to see," she said. So she organized a Facebook
protest last
weekend against the site's policies, which she believes are arbitrarily
enforced
and discriminate against women.
Muir said more than 11,000 people participated in the group's "virtual
nurse-in"
by swapping out their regular profile pictures on Facebook and uploading
ones depicting
breast-feeding.
At Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., 23-year-old mom Heather
Farley,
who was visiting from her home in Provo, Utah, led a real-world nurse-in
to complement
the online event. About 10 women showed up to breast-feed their babies
outside the
front door, drawing attention from local media if not Facebook
employees, who were
scarce on that Saturday after Christmas.
A member for almost four years, Farley has nearly 400 friends on
Facebook, a network
she'd be hard-pressed to replicate if she moved to a smaller site with
more lenient
photo policies. She uses Facebook more than e-mail to stay in touch with
far-flung
high school and college friends. She especially likes to check out
pictures of their
babies and share photos of hers. But with a 9-month-old, "it's almost
hard to get
a picture of me not nursing," she said.
This fall, Farley changed her profile photo to one that showed her
breast-feeding.
Someone probably objected, because Facebook deleted it. It, like
MySpace, generally
relies on members to point out when others break the rules.
Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said the company's guidelines regarding
exposed
flesh allow most breast-feeding photos. However, Facebook draws the line
at a visible
nipple or areola, he said. Facebook also nixes pictures showing the
gluteal cleft.
Facebook doesn't generally go looking for nudity, but it does respond
quickly when
someone on the site flags another person's photo as inappropriate.
Schnitt said the
policies were instituted years ago, when Facebook was much smaller, but
they reflect
common practices on mainstream Web sites.
"We decided nudity was something we didn't want on the site. It doesn't
matter the
context. We would agree that there are absolutely many contexts for
nudity where
it is not obscene," Schnitt said, but emphasized that Facebook can't
practically
convene a panel to decide on a case-by-case basis.
John Palfrey, a Harvard Law School professor who specializes in Internet
issues,
called Facebook a victim of its own success.
"As we wrap more and more of our lives into a single environment on the
Web, the
feeling that civil liberties ought to be protected there continues to
grow," Palfrey
said.
But it's really just that _ a feeling. Online hangouts might simulate a
public place,
but they're still private Web sites where the company is king, not the
Constitution
or the myriad state laws that apply to breast-feeding outside the home.
News Corp.-owned MySpace, which prohibits nudity, also has sparked
online protests
over photos taken down of breast-feeding mothers. A company spokeswoman
did not return
messages seeking comment.
One contrast is LiveJournal, a popular blogging network, which made an
exception
for nursing in its no-nudity policy. The rule came in response to
feedback from users
and an advisory board comprised of Internet scholars.
While Schnitt said Facebook's policies predate a recent push by law
enforcement agencies
to better protect children from online predators, the whole field of Web
hangouts
may be skittish about anything that might expose kids to nudity, said
Lee Tien, a
senior staff attorney at the free-speech watchdog group Electronic
Frontier Foundation.
Facebook already curtails the activities of some members based on age
and the networks
they belong to. For example, adults can't look at profiles of kids under
the age
of 18, even if they're members of the same regional network.
Palfrey suggests a middle ground might emerge, in which networking sites
like Facebook
can better satisfy diverse constituencies without creating strife. That
will require
honing the technology to make it more certain that only people within
specific networks
and groups could see, say, a breast-feeding photo, while keeping
children from seeing
nudity.
Palfrey describes the goal as making "a site that is good for everyone,
or good for
the largest number of people, rather than the fewest."
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