Since social networks have reached our lives we share in them special moments of our day to day. As usual, we who are parents usually publish in our profiles situations that we live with our children from the time they are in the womb until the day they want to open their profile and hang their own photos.
Being a normal and precious act of sharing, many women publish photos in which they breastfeed their babies. There is nothing wrong with that, on the contrary, but Facebook sometimes decides to censor them for "breaking their rules."
Why does Facebook censor photos of breastfeeding mothers?
Years ago it was Leslie Power, one of the last Nohemí Hervada de Mimos and Teta, to name the most popular cases. But in the middle there were many other mothers whose profiles were blocked after being reported for publishing explicit nudes.
Why does he do this? What explanations do you give? To understand it better, Lola Banos, Facebook communication director, he tells the ABC newspaper today what his policy is about it.
"The social network is not against, at all, breastfeeding, we consider it something precious and natural. We are glad that it is important for mothers to share their experience on Facebook and most of the images that are shared related to this topic they comply with our policies. However, the photos that show images with a bare chest violate our nude policies, which are clear in our community standards. "
That is to say, Facebook allows photos of nursing mothers, but does not allow naked breasts to be seen.
Below you can see first the original photo of Mimos and Teta censored by Facebook and then the special version he has made as a form of protest to make it clear that he does not shut up.
Double standard?
One of the things that Facebook is most criticized for is that it censures photos of breastfeeding moms, but allows photos with strong erotic content. It is clear that here is a incoherenceWell, you can't compare an act like breastfeeding a baby with sexual incitement.
But where is the cutoff point? Facebook has decided to cut by saying healthy "Naked breasts no", it doesn't matter if it's a breastfeeding mother or an artistic photo. Therefore, that is the explanation of why it censures a tit that feeds but allows half a tit that encourages sex.
I think Facebook should be more consistent and know how to discriminate a breast that breastfeeds from one that causes.
What's behind?
Unfortunately, what is behind the story that a priori seems like a Facebook fad is something very serious and disgusting: child pornography.
It is hard to believe it, but it is possible that ill minds become excited with the photo of a baby of a few months being breastfed.
As Carlos Igual, Captain of the Civil Guard of the Group of Crimes Against Minors (belonging to the Technical Unit of Judicial Police) told us in an interview that we have published in Babies and more “Pedophiles use data from social media profiles to contact the children ”.
Images that we believe are completely innocent in which we are breastfeeding, bathing or naked on the beach, can be “food” for the perverse minds of pedophiles. Therefore, we must be very cautious when choosing the photos that we are going to share.
What do you think?
I understand and share the anger of mothers censored by Facebook. I usually publish photos of babies being breastfed almost daily, both on the blog and on social networks. I am a defender of breastfeeding, it seems to me a precious act of love that must be seen, normalized, encouraged.
Even so, as a mother I am dying to think that a sick mind may be on the other side looking at my baby with perversion.
What do you think about Facebook and photos of mothers breastfed their babies? Have you ever been denounced or censored a photo? Do you think that Facebook acts well, that it is protecting babies, or on the contrary, that it is an inconsistency on its part?
