Re: Facebook censorship and internet porn
Bruce Bostwick wrote: Charlie wrote: Jon wrote: ...that may prevent a woman from learning how to examine herself for cancer or her options if she is diagnosed... ...policy of removing pictures of breastfeeding. I glanced at the La Leche League site (an org. that promotes breastfeeding) - no easily accessible pix; perhaps one needs to join? Interesting article on age-of-weaning, which here in the US is typically less than one year, but in developing countries can be 3 or 4 yo. Huh! - I'd draw the line at teething! evidently there are a lot of riled up women about this. evidently, some few were using breastfeeding as a way around the facebook restriction on frontal nudity. [on facebook] roll eyes Some people just can't deal with bodily functions in a non-kindergartener way, tittering instead of just acknowledging. Not that there isn't genuine humor to be found in many cases (I've _so_ had to adjust to living with a guy)... snippage The problem, and this seems to be endemic to the industry [porn] as far as I can tell, is that the industry would very much rather do business the way it does now and take every possible tactical and/or strategic action available to make sure they're not only net-ubiquitous, but that they actually crowd out legitimate web search results for completely unrelated subjects, and appear in your inbox even if your junk mail filtering is strong enough that you end up filtering out your friends before you filter out the porn ads. Rather than target a perfectly willing and sex-positive demographic that would be happy to pay for their premium content, they would rather make the maximum possible nuisance of themselves trying to convert maybe one in a thousand or so of the largely sex-negative remainder of the population that doesn't want to see anything they have to offer. Indeed. As for free speech, deciding what's abuse of it and what's legitimate use of it is a formitable philsophical problem indeed. Likewise, which restrictions on it are legitimate and which are overbroad and possibly draconian. There's room for considerable debate along that boundary... I personally find porn repugnant, but as long as only consenting adults are involved, I can't advocate banning it. thread crossover As in the wikileaks dump - I don't want anyone endangered, but there's far too much being covered up by various govt's. And I repeat my assertion that our society (particularly that of the USA, and even more particularly that of some regions of the USA and/or specific segments of the population) is not exactly objective or even rational on this subject, and is influenced by social and cultural standards that I consider dysfunctional and destructive at the very least. Not the least of which is the perception that nudity == sex, or the related perception that sex == bad/dirty/evil. Or a whole list of others... We do seem to be schizoid and schizophrenic as a society WRT sexuality. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H.L. MENCKEN Good one! 'It's hard to fight the fire while you're feeding the flames' - Rush Debbi Condoms For The Mind? Maru Debbi ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: Facebook breastfeeding ban
Jon Louis Mann wrote: I didn't say that. What I said is that only sociopaths, perverts and babykillers can think that breastfeeding is obscene. Would you agree that it is in bad taste to use foul language, even though it is an expression of free speech that some feel is disrespectful and offensive, or are they just prudes who don't deserve to have an opinion? Non sequitur. How does the use of foul language correlate to breastfeeding? Do you think breastfeeding is some way disgusting or offensive? and another picture of the Google model: http://www.iamboredr.com/media/1645/Boobs/ The girl is fully clothed, what's the point? NO way was she fully dressed! (although her nipples were covered) QED. And I still can't see why you posted that image. Is it to protest against the induction of breast cancer caused by the use of tight bras? I have never heard of a Facebook rule outlawing pictures of women breast feeding in public. Are you certain this, Alberto? They removed _all_ breastfeeding images. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: For Alberto and others
Ronn! Blankenship wrote: The middle segment on tonight's 60 Minutes was on Brazil and its economy. I don't know if when the show becomes available on cbs.com (tomorrow morning?) it will be accessible from outside the U.S. or not. I hope they didn't base their research on the Uncyclopedia article... Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Breastfeeding on Facebook
I didn't say that. What I said is that only sociopaths, perverts and baby killers can think that breastfeeding is obscene. Would you agree that it is in bad taste to use foul language, even though it is an expression of free speech that some feel is disrespectful and offensive, or are they just prudes who don't deserve to have an opinion? Non sequitur. How does the use of foul language correlate to breastfeeding? Do you think breastfeeding is some way disgusting or offensive? and another picture of the Google model: http://www.iamboredr.com/media/1645/Boobs/ The girl is fully clothed, what's the point? NO way was she fully dressed! (although her nipples were covered) QED. And I still can't see why you posted that image. Is it to protest against the induction of breast cancer caused by the use of tight bras? I have never heard of a Facebook rule outlawing pictures of women breast feeding in public. Are you certain about this, Alberto? I was trying to make the point that there are far more important issues than a breast feeding ban on Facebook, such as privacy, or using foul language, which I have seen all over Facebook. I was a bottle baby myself, which may explain why I posted those cleavage pictures!~) Do you think I may harbor some deeply buried resentment because I was denied my own Mommy's breast?~) As for the Google girl with the giant titties; I was being ironic. I honestly had no idea tight bras caused breast cancer!~) Thanks to Charlie's link I recognize that Facebook truly is banning breast feeding pictures. I wonder who were the people who were posting the obscene pictures of breast feeding that prompted Facebook to take such drastic action. Nevertheless, I will continue to use Facebook and guard my privacy as best I can; which is what I consider to be a far more important reason to avoid using the electronic interface. Jon ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Carbon, Rings
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