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Facebook censors 30,000 year-old Venus of Willendorf as 'pornographic' (theartnewspaper.com)
4 points by eastendguy on Feb 28, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


I don't think this statue is porn but I can understand why it could break Facebook's rules. Context is important. A photograph of a naked woman in a biology textbook isn't porn, but if you upload exactly the same picture to Pornhub it becomes pornographic. A statue of a naked woman in a museum clearly isn't porn, but that doesn't mean it can't be regarded as porn if you upload a picture of it to Facebook.


I think in Facebook's case, it's important to ignore context, lest they get drawn into the awkward position of saying what is art and what isn't.




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