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Breaking: Facebook bans doll nipples on profile images

Ross Dawson, July 2, 2010 at 7:41 pm

My wife Victoria Buckley just received a message from Facebook asking her to change the profile image on the Victoria Buckley Jewellery Facebook page, threatening to close the page as it did not conform to its ‘terms and conditions’.

Presumably the were referring to condition3. 7. You will not post content that…contains nudity…. referring to the profile image of a beautiful doll touching one of Victoria’s rings.

Above is the offensive image. If you go to the Victoria Buckley Jewellery Facebook page you will now see a censored image so she doesn’t get banned, along with her close to 1,000 fans. (Though if you click through to the Photos page and the Ophelia Enchanted Doll collection you can see more stunning images of the doll).

Of course we know that there was a big fuss when Facebook banned breast-feeding photos on the site. But who is going to stand up for beautiful dolls? As Time magazine noted when the Facebook breast-feeding controversy was at its peak, Barbie doesn’t have nipples.

The doll used in the photograph was created on commission by Marina Bychkova of Enchanted Doll, Marina’s dolls are true collectors pieces, being bought for sometimes tens of thousands of dollars given their scarcity, and have been featured in dozens of art and culture magazines around the world.

On her page Victoria calls Facebook “philistines” for banning this image. Fair enough. There is certainly enough artistic merit for these not to be banned. And Facebook just continues to push back at what we are allowed to post on the site? Where does Facebook stop at what they choose to ban?

Or perhaps these are too explicit for public consumption. What do you think?

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http://martijnlinssen.com Martijn Linssen

USA have always been like this: afraid of growth (http://www.martijnlinssen.com/2010/07/growth-flows-naturally-from-inside.html), trying to control others by enforcing strict rules
That has always backfired so far, taking many lives in the process
It’s why they account for the largest Christian population on earth, although it’s slightly diminishing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_United_States)
The USA is like a little child afraid of something: it just closes its eyes, hoping it will go away. That’s why Barbie doesn’t have nipples. If Mark Zuckerberg just doesn’t allow any nipples on Facebook, he won’t have to draw the fine line between naturality and obscenity. Funny how the USA crosses half the globe in order to fight fundamentalism elsewhere, isn’t it? (No, it isn’t)
We adults all know that we have to face our challenges sooner rather than later, and that they only become bigger problems if we don’t
When will the once great US of A finally grow up? It’s too late already if you ask me…
sylvie

I might be not the only one to have the idea but I think a nice handmade lace’s underwear would be nice. It could be transparent so we could still se the nipples but, it would not be «nude».
Its a very very nice doll.
Good luck!
http://marketingtechblog.com Douglas Karr

1. I never realized that some dolls actually had nipples. Kind of weird.
2. Is it technically nudity when it’s a doll?
http://www.pixhome.blogspot.com kissmo

how this can’t be nude?Images like these should be banned in all social networking sites.
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Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author. He is Founding Chairman of AHT Group, which consists of 3 companies: consulting, publishing, and ventures firm Advanced Human Technologies, future and strategy firm Future Exploration Network, and events company The Insight Exchange.

Ross is author most recently of Implementing Enterprise 2.0, the prescient Living Networks, which anticipated the social network revolution, and the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships (click on the links for free chapter downloads). He is based in Sydney and San Francisco with his wife jewellery designer Victoria Buckley and two beautiful young daughters.