Take an AANR Poll - Is Facebook too strict with their anti-nudity policies

Mary ClareOriginal Poster

Feb 27, 2011

Many people have had nudist photos deleted by facebook. We have had photos with just bare shoulders deleted and we get a warning. It bugs the crap out of me that facebook allows groups like I hate Israel or I hate America to be on. Our allows strippers to advertise, but does not allow nudists to post photos that don't show nipples or genitals. So take the poll for AANR. Tom says it's important to have that information to help counter Facebook. Click here to take the poll:http://www.aanr.com/blog/is-facebook-too-strict-with-anti-nudity-policies/MC

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Mary ClareOriginal Poster
Feb 27, 2011
I forgot, here's a so called "nude" photo that we posted to facebook. It was deleted and we were given a warning saying it was nude.http://terracottainn.tumblr.com/post/3550643113/take-the-aanr-poll-is-facebook-too-strict-withMC
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Oregongirl
Feb 27, 2011
I've seen much worse pictures on Facebook.
I think what the problem is, is that someone or someones dislikes that you are a nudist and are constantly reporting you.
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catbird
Feb 27, 2011
When I signed up with Facebook, I saw that terms of service regulation. I have been playing it safe and NOT submitting to Facebook, any photo that I would submit to TN. For another thing, I choose NOT to share my nudist activities with Facebook. Some of my Facebook friends are prejudiced.
Banning a photo showing only bare shoulders is going too far.
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Thomas
Feb 27, 2011
[quote]I forgot, here's a so called "nude" photo that we posted to facebook. It was deleted and we were given a warning saying it was nude.http://terracottainn.tumblr.com/post/3550643113/take-the-aanr-poll-is-facebook-too-strict-withMC[/quote] I am amazed that pic was removed. I have a friend who has several pics showing from about waist up and she is clearly nude. One is a pic of her looking out the window from a side/ back angle.
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Mary ClareOriginal Poster
Feb 27, 2011
Yes, Facebook can set their own rules, but that doesn't mean they have to be hypocrits and enforce them only against nudists and other people they don't like. Look at this post:http://terracottainn.tumblr.com/post/3559165010/take-the-aanr-poll-is-facebook-too-strict-withIt shows 5 photos we have had deleted and 5 photos facebook has accepted and which are presently online. It's a shame that facebook deems breast cancer sites, breast feeding photos as obscene, yet bring on the stripper ads. So take the AANR poll. MC
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Mary ClareOriginal Poster
Feb 27, 2011
Hi Oregon girl, you are right. I am sure there are some people that do not like it that we are nudists and on facebook. I know we have the largest nudist following there with over 3000 fans, so we are a target.
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Gerry-4
Feb 28, 2011
I'm not even sure Facebook is staffed with flesh and blood human beings anymore. If it's not sent through a complaint protocol, your message will likely never be read by anybody. Or if it is, it will be sent to the recycling bin immediately. In other words, like every other large company, it has grown too large to even care.
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Mary ClareOriginal Poster
Feb 28, 2011
Facebook has 500 shareholders. Is valued at $50 billion. It just received $1 billion in financing in Jan on top of $500 muillion last year.http://www.slashgear.com/facebook-raised-1-billion-in-new-financing-with-valuation-of-50-billion-24127889/I think as someone else said, they are too big to care. Again look at the photos we have deleted and the ones that facebook allows:http://terracottainn.tumblr.com/post/3559165010/take-the-aanr-poll-is-facebook-too-strict-withMC
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Member
Feb 28, 2011
When corporations, - or governments - become too big, policy decisions are handed down to managers, who are often overwhelmed and incompetent, therefore the enforcement of FB policies do not necessarily represent the true original goals of the founders, who are too busy making even MORE money to worry about day to day operations of the site.
As soon as a "manager" gets loose with a personal ideal of what should or shouldnt be allowed, the site becomes his to model. I doubt Mr. Zuckerberg ever actually makes an policy decisions anymore.
And yes, for the record, I have also been censored by the policies of FB. I believe the FB photo enforcement is triggered by complaints, not any FB monitior team. If you are busted for a pic, look to your "friends" to see who has reported you!
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catbird
Feb 28, 2011
[quote] Makes me want to create my own Nudists Social Web Community...[/quote] This web site is it.
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DanandJanette
Feb 28, 2011
I think Facebook's problem with TC's pictures isn't the content, but the nudist label. I guess 'strippers' is A-okay.
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Member
Mar 1, 2011
FB's policy has been defined time and again, "NO nudity *.*". Since it is run by kids, mostly in their early twenties and surely little healthy nudist influence, there is NO judgment, simply policy. Those ads slip through likely because they are small in size therefor fewer flesh tone pixels. Much like TN, no enforcement takes place unless there is a complaint. One complaint though and a faceless intern presses delete. I've heard of instances where the removal was overturned, but don't imagine nudists will get that leniency. I wonder if a tasteful ad that barely meets the user agreement just like the V'S Secret ad, but instead for TN or Tcotta's place, using one of the removed pictures, would get through.
My opinion, is the same for FB and TN, I would rather be overly strict than overly open. But please be consistent for content and ads.
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njmike
Apr 25, 2011
From the examples MC provided, and some of the posts, I'd say their policy is at least a little overboard, if not hypocritical as well. The Terra Cotta pics that were removed were tasteful and definitley not obscene. The same can't be said for some of the other pics they allowed. Sounds to me like someone is slipping Facebook a few bucks. Apparently, MC needs to pay Facebook to look the other way too.
Yes, it is their site and they can set the rules to whatever they want. However, those rules should be enforced evenly. That doesn;t seem to be the case here.
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ME
Member
Apr 25, 2011
I looked at the AANR poll. There was a comment from a nudist who said that she thought it about right, ...because if nude photos were allowed, there are the sickos that would soon turn it into a porn site. hmmmmmm
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kramtrohs
Apr 25, 2011
It's a great idea,... but don't think you'll get any where!
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Member
Apr 25, 2011
[quote]It's a great idea,... but don't think you'll get any where![/quote] LOL, well, I think you misread it
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DesertRat
Apr 25, 2011
[quote]Realistically, it is their house and their rules. And they can make up rules as they go and change them as they go. And because it is their house they can apply the rules differently to different persons. Not that I agree with the policy but it is their sandbox. [/quote] I agree with this policy when it comes to TN, Facebook and other private web sites. Unfortunately this policy applies to a lot more than Facebook. The nation's media outlets, while supposedly being unbiased, have a policy of reporting only the news that they choose to report. They also blatantly slant the stories to fit their agenda. We cannot really critisize this practice when it is a news paper editorial or internet blog, but when organizations abuse the public air waves in order to promote their causes, it is a problem that should concern us all. Editorials are fine, but they should be labeled as such and not presented as news items.
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