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The Facebook Photo Ban

The photo came from a BBC soap opera EastEnders. It was used in a blog post for Dangerous Minds. The blog post is calling for a protest of a pub in London who asked two young men to leave the premises because they were kissing. The material was posted on Richard Metzger's Facebook page because he also blogs on Dangerous Minds and that's how he works it.  By the way, that's pretty much how I do it too. I post on my blog and if I liked it I post it to my facebook page too. Why? Because that's where most of my friends hang out. Unfortunately, Richard had one friend by the name of Jerry who wrote homophobic words about the picture and found it disgusting. After that, Richard's other friends jumped on the guy. Jerry apparently complained about it to facebook. Facebook removed the material and sent Richard a warning.

The real problem here is certainly not that Facebook is a homophobic
company. It's that their terrible corporate policy on censorship needs to
stop siding with the idiots, the complainers and the least-enlightened
and evolved amongst us as a matter of business expediency! That
ill-advised
policy can cause huge --and otherwise avoidable-- international public
relations problems for them. Why just give that power to dummies and
homophobes to use like a caveman club on the rest of us? It makes no
rational sense (certainly not from a legal
standpoint) and is anything BUT expedient when you consider the damage
to their brand which can occur in a situation, ahem, exactly like this one.

This one is referring to a photo of two men kissing.

Personally, I don't think it's offensive. I've certainly posted pictures that afterwards called my judgement into question. The two men are not naked. Why would people find this gross?







Why is this fine and acceptable and not that one?


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sandra Bullock kissing Scarlett Johansson



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