Mixed priorities?
I read an interesting article today in the New York Times about how Facebook has a team of about 150 people whose sole job is to search through all of it’s user’s photos for “risque” images.
Apparently FB have rules about what photos are and are not allowed on the site. They have the Fully exposed butt rule, the Crack rule, and the Nipple rule. If any of these rules are broken by a photo, that photo gets tagged and removed. On the flip side though, they don’t deem several FB groups centered around holocaust deniers: Holohoax and Holocaust: A series of Lies.
In what world do photos that show nudity, perhaps naturally (as in a nipple showing in a photo of breast feeding) or explicitly, is a bigger problem than spreading (arguably) false beliefs about (arguably) the most terrible crime toward humanity in the past century?
There is a certain point where freedom of speech gets exercised well beyond what it was created to serve. But beyond that point is where societies norms get taken out of context and basically just look silly.
