rafts of activists plopped a giant inflatable dumbbell outside Facebook ’s London headquarters to dissent the platform ’s restrictions on depictions of nudity , theBBC reported Friday .
They were led by Vicky Martin , a medical tattoo artist who specialize in recreating the appearance of ring of color on those who have undergo a mastectomy as part of breast Cancer the Crab treatment . Her Facebook page showcasing her work and patronage was lately slacken off and debar for dishonour the platform ’s residential area guidelines banning pornography and nudeness , which includes certain depictions of exposed female nipple . After her challenges to the interruption were purportedly met with radio muteness , she decide to see ol’ Zuck ’s care another room : by putting an enormous fake breast , nipple and all , bear the Christian Bible “ This is art ! ” on the companionship ’s doorstep .
“ It ’s about giving woman rights to be able-bodied to show other cleaning lady that they attend complete again after such a long journeying , ” Martin differentiate the BBC Friday . “ It ’s about us being able to show that this is art . It ’s not pornographic at all , it ’s beautiful . ”
Screenshot: Vicky Martin Method VMM (Facebook)
Facebook later lifted the ban , telling the BBC its algorithm flagged Martin ’s Sir Frederick Handley Page by mistake .
“ Vicky ’s profile should n’t have been suspend — this was a misunderstanding and we are gloomy for the overthrow this has caused , ” a Facebook interpreter said per BBC News .
While most on-line platforms have some sort of computer code in piazza to chasten what user can post , Facebook ’s farsighted list ofbanned contentremains notoriously particular . Though they have buoy up up on images of knocker in late age . antecedently itscommunity guidelinesstated nipples could only be picture in the setting of boob - gift or the birth cognitive process , and those exception have since been broaden to admit “ health - related office ( for object lesson , post - mastectomy , breast cancer awareness or gender verification surgery ) or an act of protest . ”
Given these addendums , in which Martin ’s pageboy seems to specifically fall , it ’s stupefy why Facebook did n’t backtrack on the suspension immediately . But then I and the rest of the cyberspace would never have larn that giant inflatable boobs were something you could have made , and that would have just ruined the vision for my next birthday company radical .
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