Több mint százan tiltakoztak meztelenül New Yorkban, amiért nem lehet a Facebookra mellbimbókat posztolni

A Facebook New York-i székháza elé feküdt ki meztelenül több mint 100 ember, amiért a Facebookon és az Instagramon betiltották a mellbimbok posztolását. A meztelen tüntetők mellbimbókat ábrázoló táblákkal takarták magukat. A résztvevők úgy vélik, hogy a tiltás árt a művészetnek és azoknak a felhasználóknak is, akik fel akarják fedezni a nemiséget és az identitásukat.

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At sunrise on Sunday, June 2, 2019, 125 people posed nude in front of Facebook and Instagram’s New York City headquarters at Astor Place to challenge social media censorship. In collaboration with the National Coalition Against Censorship, artist @SpencerTunick created a photographic artwork as part of their #WeTheNipple campaign. The campaign calls for a change in the polices of both social media platforms to allow photographic artistic nudity. NCAC has written an open letter to Facebook, which owns Instagram, asking them to commit to supporting artists, rather than silencing them. NCAC has asked Facebook to convene a group of stakeholders in the arts to develop new guidelines for artistic content. Participants in Sunday’s art action covered their nipples with stickers of photographed male nipples, to highlight the rigid—and anachronistic—gender inequality in existing nudity policies. Svetlana Mintcheva, Director of Programs at NCAC said, “We recognize that moderating content for billions of users is challenging and draw the line between art and images that are not art is hard. Yet, if Facebook and Instagram want to be platforms for artists, they need to modify their current overbroad ban on photographic nudity, which harms artists who work with the human body, especially those exploring issues of gender and identity. We urge the company to adopt an art-friendly policy developed with the help of a group of global stakeholders, such as arts advocates, historians, curators and artists.” (Ncac.org)

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