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I'm not a facebook user, so I've never run head-long into this policy, but why doesn't facebook allow photos of nude children? It seems awkward and creepy to c

by jMyles 10y ago

I'm not a facebook user, so I've never run head-long into this policy, but why doesn't facebook allow photos of nude children? It seems awkward and creepy to consider all photos of nude children to be pornographic. The vast, overwhelming majority (surely more than 99.9%, maybe more than two nines) of photos of nude children have no plausible sexual tone whatsoever. And, similarly, I presume that many images that are indeed pornographic depict children who are clothed. What does one have to do with the other? For adults, I kinda understand: sex is one of the main reasons adults take their clothes off. But kids, especially young kids, run around naked all the time! Does facebook not permit pictures of birth?

barry-cotter 10y ago
I'm under the impression that it's exporting the American civil religion worldwide. The idea that people genuinely are different, with radically different cultures and alien values is not one most people get. Witness the Iraq war or the Libya debacle and the assumption that everyone, everywhere really, really wants to have a Western democracy and that it will happen automatically if the Big Bad (Saddam, Qaddafi) is removed. It's like how Americans don't understand that people from other Anglophone countries don't have a taboo reaction to people saying nigger. Facebook assumes American culture is the universal culture and act to make that true.
- kome 10y ago
  That's so true. Americanisation worldwide is furthered by projecting US norms and lifestyle as a cultura nullius for all.
wyager 10y ago
Weird American nudity taboos. They don't make a lot of sense.
pjscott 10y ago
It's all about what someone could plausibly imagine someone else finding arousing. Never mind intent, and never mind content; is there someone, hypothetical or real, who could get off on it? Can pedophiles enjoy it? This policy is not about protecting anyone. It's about keeping up appearances. The same can be said about most policies.
- wyager 10y ago
  Well they'd better start banning pictures of tile patterns! http://imgur.com/gallery/DowgNSg http://imgur.com/gallery/DowgNSg

by jMyles 10y ago

barry-cotter 10y ago

I'm under the impression that it's exporting the American civil religion worldwide. The idea that people genuinely are different, with radically different cultures and alien values is not one most people get. Witness the Iraq war or the Libya debacle and the assumption that everyone, everywhere really, really wants to have a Western democracy and that it will happen automatically if the Big Bad (Saddam, Qaddafi) is removed. It's like how Americans don't understand that people from other Anglophone countries don't have a taboo reaction to people saying nigger. Facebook assumes American culture is the universal culture and act to make that true.

kome 10y ago
That's so true. Americanisation worldwide is furthered by projecting US norms and lifestyle as a cultura nullius for all.

wyager 10y ago

Weird American nudity taboos. They don't make a lot of sense.

pjscott 10y ago

It's all about what someone could plausibly imagine someone else finding arousing. Never mind intent, and never mind content; is there someone, hypothetical or real, who could get off on it? Can pedophiles enjoy it? This policy is not about protecting anyone. It's about keeping up appearances. The same can be said about most policies.

wyager 10y ago
Well they'd better start banning pictures of tile patterns! http://imgur.com/gallery/DowgNSg http://imgur.com/gallery/DowgNSg