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Facebook removed breastfeeding picture
Wednesday 2nd February 2011, 9:35AM GMT.
Ellie Cook feeding baby Isis
A Shropshire woman has hit out at Facebook after the social networking site removed a picture of her sister breastfeeding.
Marj Cook, from Bishop’s Castle, started a discussion on her Facebook profile page after her sister’s picture was removed from the site.
She said: “My sister posted a picture of her feeding her newborn baby and the picture was removed. They claimed she uploaded a photo that violated the terms of use.”
Facebook has since apologised and said Ellie Cook’s photo was removed in error.
Ms Cook said her sister posted the photo of her feeding her daughter Isis about a week ago, but it was taken down and she was sent a message saying it violated the terms of use, which were there to keep the site “a safe environment for users”.
She said: “I launched a debate through my Facebook account and it had a huge response. I had at least 30 comments, it just got everyone talking.”
Ms Cook said she was sceptical about the apology and suspected it had only been given because of publicity around the case.
A spokesman for Facebook said: “At Facebook we think breastfeeding is natural and beautiful . . . We take no action on the vast majority of breastfeeding photos because they follow the site’s terms of use.”
He added: “Of course, we make an occasional mistake – of which this is an example. When this happens and it’s brought to our attention we work quickly to resolve the issue.
“We’d like to sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this mistake caused.”
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The last thing I want to see is this,
please censor!
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so don;t look – easy
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I’m a 76 year old man. When I was a boy, breast feeding was regarded as the best method of feeding infants. In the days before the central heating of every room in the house, I can remember several times when a mother breast fed in mixed company in our Liverpool home. Obviously, she made no great fuss about it and the men in the room would very slightly adjust their positions so as not to be seen to be staring at her. She was however, included in the conversation and joined in without embarrassment.
All the women in the room exhibited their legs up to the calf, which, I have been told, would have caused outrage 70 years before. It’s summed up in the phrase, ‘In olden days, a glimpse of stocking…..’
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Facebook should have stood by their decision to remove it. It’s not the breast feeding I object to. It’s the fact she is completely topless. She couldn’t/wouldn’t sit in a cafe or park like this. Why should her nudity be allowed just because she happens to be breastfeeding?
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