Breasts at Facebook — finding the borders of reason

I am conducting a humble experiment (link to my Facebook page) about Facebook’s measures of what is tolerable and what not. This is not because I want to attack Facebook as if I would not agree with Facebook’s policies I can do a simple thing: leave. This is also my suggestion for those who keep on complaining about the company in question. Perhaps if your job is about matters such as privacy or the role of social media in society I might give you some slack.

The reason for this humble experiment is due to a tweet of this morning by @JoyceRoodnat who wrote an article in a Dutch newspaper called “NRC” about this very topic. The gist of the article is the question if posting the photo of a painting that depicts nudity, also known as the human body, would cause Facebook to react, one way or the other.

Guido Cagnacci (1601–1663) — The Death of Cleopatra

As I had the marvelous Sketchapp already open for my work on Caloom I decided to make 3 versions of the image from the NRC article and add nipple censoring to it.

The Death of Cleopatra — nipple censoring

These images I shall post at Facebook and wait and see what their reaction will be. My suggestion for Facebook is the following. If people complain about seeing nudity the company’s site, work on a nudity filtering for those people instead of letting those people telling me, or others, what to post or not. It is a slippery slope.

This relates also very much to my earlier comment on the showing of nipples or not:

See also: Not For Cry Babies

See also: For Cry Babies