Social networking website Facebook is boldly taking the Internet into the 19th Century by banning photos of breastfeeding as “obscene”.
Look, I know Facebook is American, and America is (a) a Puritan nation at heart and (b) pig-ignorant of the fact that the other 96% of the world’s population might think differently. I mean, their own president can’t tell the difference between APEC and OPEC, between Austria and Australia. When he’s standing in it. But quite frankly, a society which thinks photos of mothers feeding their children are “obscene” has deep, deep problems.
And not just that your president is dumb as a stump-post.
The protest group Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!(Official petition to Facebook) has almost 8000 members already. And while I generally don’t pay much attention to the needs of the breeders, this one I’ve joined.
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10 September 2007 at 3:26 am
Zern
Isn’t America also home to the largest porno industry on this planet? That could be item (c) of your opening list…
13 September 2007 at 12:39 am
quadrapop
onya Stil… joined up too
13 September 2007 at 11:27 am
Snarky Platypus
Do they ban pics of manboobs as well?
13 September 2007 at 3:25 pm
Stilgherrian
I’ve stayed away from responding to comments on this post because part of me wants to say something very, very sarcastic. And that’s not helpful. So instead I’ll write a reply which combines manboobs and pornography.
Actually, on second thoughts I won’t.