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Protest Against Facebook Ban on Some Breastfeeding Pictures Gathering Momentum
Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene, cries an online petition. It says, Recently, Facebook has started 'pulling a myspace' by not allowing people to post profile pictures of babies nursing. The pictures have been reported as 'obscene' and have been removed- their posters warned not to repost or fear being kicked off of Facebook.
We're wondering: what about a baby breastfeeding is obscene? Especially in comparison to MANY other pictures posted all over Facebook that really are obscene.
Facebook, we expect more from you, and we expect you to realize that nursing moms everywhere have a right to show pictures of their babies eating, just like bottle-fed babies have a right to be seen. In an effort to appease the closed-minded, you are only serving to be detrimental to babies, women, and society.
**Facebook, allow breastfeeding pictures, and stop classifying them as obscene!**
Organizers of the petition also complained 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.
On the petition website, those behind the campaign assert, This is an issue of critical importance not just for nursing mothers and their children, but all of us fighting for gender equality and freedom
Over 11 000 people participated in their first ever M.I.L.C. (Mothers International Lactation Campaign) event on Dec.27. The website claims: Participants from around the globe joined our virtual protest of Facebooks discriminatory practice of arbitrarily and randomly removing breastfeeding pictures from member profiles and albums, classifying them as obscene content.
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