[lukasm]

P0rn is illegal in many countries. Facebook wants to do business in these countries, hence aggressive filtering and minimum liability.

[jacquesm]

Does Facebook have a representation in those countries?

Besides that, we're not talking about porn. Unless you want to see breast cancer videos and mothers feeding their children as porn but that would be a perception error, the label simply does not apply.

[ptaipale]

Facebook has offices in Dubai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Singapore. These restrict internet pornography by law; even though much of actual Internet traffic may still be porn, businesses do not wish to associate with it because porn could provide a too convenient legal handle to prosecute representatives or shut down services as a retaliation for publishing things that are e.g. critical of the local government.

Of course we are not talking about porn, but drawing lines in the sand is a murky business.

[TheSpiceIsLife]

So there's breast cancer, there's breast feeding, and everything else is porn?

That can't be right.

[wyager]

Women leaving their faces uncovered is illegal in many countries. This should have zero bearing on what I can do in my own country.

[DanBC]

> Women leaving their faces uncovered is illegal in many countries.

Which countries?

[Symbiote]

As far as I know, only Afghanistan during the period of Taliban rule, and Daesh until they decided it was a security risk.

So: none.

[witty_username]

It's not "should"; that's how it is.

Facebook isn't your country.

[vkou]

It's also 'illegal' for women to have their faces covered in some countries.

Does this mean that there should be no pictures of women on Facebook?

[witty_username]

It's upto Facebook what they want to do.

[jacalata]

Really? Where?

[vkou]

Burkas, burkinis in France. (It's a bit more complicated then that, hence the scare quotes.)

Depending on who you ask, it's either because of some hand-waved nonsense about public safety, or because liberal Western values include telling women what they can and cannot wear.