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Facebook ban of breast-feeding photos sparks protests

Most favorite social networking site "Facebook" is bad of breast feeding photos. it was took a long debate and the issues was concerned with manes expertise after removing after removing photos that expose too much of a mother's breast.

Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said in a statement "the website takes no action over most breast-feeding photos because they follow the site's terms of use but others are removed to ensure the site remains safe and secure for all users, including children, photos containing a fully exposed breast (as defined by showing the nipple or areola) do violate those terms (on obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit material) and may be removed."
But Facebook's decision to ban some breast feeding photos has angered some users, including U.S. mother Kelli Roman whose photograph of her feeding her daughter was removed by Facebook.
Roman is one of the administrators of an online petition called "Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!" which has picked up speed in the past week after protesters organized a virtual "nurse-in" on Facebook and held a small demonstration outside Facebook's office in Palo Alto, California.
The petition has now attracted more than 80,000 names & over 10,000 comments, reigniting the old debate about the rights or wrongs of breast feeding in public. The matter is broadly concerned by all the mother and as a result they forced to remove the picture.
Organizers of the petition said some women had been warned not to repost photographs that had been removed from their pages or they would face being kicked off Facebook.
One breast-feeding mother, called Rebekah, said Facebook removed a photograph of her feeding her child.

"I find it offensive that (Facebook) can remove my photo but not the close up picture of a thonged
backside I (have) seen on a friend's page or remove the "what kama sutra position are you?" quiz application," she wrote.
Facebook, which has more than 120 million members, is standing by its decision.
Schnitt said the company had called many U.S. media groups during the course of the protest to ask to place an advert related to breast-feeding that showed a woman breast-feeding her child with a fully exposed breast. None agreed. Obviously, a newspaper and Facebook are different things but the underlying motivation for the content policies are the same.