[ravenstine]

Why can't Facebook filter out whatever they want to filter out? I mean, you wouldn't want to see penises all over your feed, and not everyone necessarily agrees with you about the appearance of breasts(except me, I want more breasts on my Facebook), so I can understand why Facebook would make such a decision without necessarily deeming it as wrong. Nobody has to use Facebook. And their main criterion, "is the internet raising a large enough stink", seems perfectly reasonable to me. But what a weird world we live in that a short-lived incident about womens' breasts ending with an apology from Facebook gets a news story. Then again, it's the BBC, so I shouldn't be surprised.

[criddell]

> Why can't Facebook filter out whatever they want to filter out?

This isn't about what they can or can't do, it's about what they should or shouldn't do.

The benefits of breast cancer awareness information outweigh any imaginable harm. If you don't want to see it, then you certainly don't have to.

[forgottenpass]

I mean, you wouldn't want to see penises all over your feed

Why wouldn't I? You assume I'm some sort of prude?

They'd fit right in with everything else in my feed that my friends post and I don't care about.

[DanBC]

> Why can't Facebook filter out whatever they want to filter out?

Why can't people let Facebook know what should and shouldn't be filtered?

Facebook already have policy that breasts are ok when they're raising awareness of breast cancer or being used to feed children, so facebook is ignoring their own existing policy.

[TheSpiceIsLife]

The naked female body is only acceptible in a medical or child-rearing countext.

No. We need to reject this ideology. It is wrong wrong wrong.

We need to stop perpetuating this lie.

Naked human bodies are wholey unremarkable in the strongest sense.

[oldmanjay]

I'm not even close to a prude about nudity, but I utterly reject that you may have any say about my attitude toward it.

[TheSpiceIsLife]

That's fine, so long as your attitude toward it doesn't perpetuate female body shaming nor prevent my retina from being exposed to the female anatomy because of some misguided belief that the naked female breast constitutes pornography outside the scope of medicine and breast-feeding.

[TheSpiceIsLife]

While I don't find pictures of penises particularly appealing, I don't see any reason to ban them easier.

I mean, every time you see a male dog there's a penis getting about with it, we don't seem to mind those.

Probably because dogs haven't had the Church tell them their bodies are shameful for a thousand years.

[pmontra]

Well, nobody has to use cars, trains and busses, we have legs and we can walk ;-)

I think that FB is inside a fear bubble of its own making. They have to apologize too much lately and this hints to something wrong in their vetting process. Maybe too much imperfect AI or too much imperfect human judgements.