The birth photos too graphic for Facebook – Essential Baby – October 2014


Until a policy change earlier this year, Facebook was renowned for it’s double standards regarding women’s breasts – scantily clad bikini shots were fine, breastfeeding not so much. And now that the rules around breastfeeding photos have been relaxed, it would seem they are coming for your birth photos.

Milli Hill, who is the founder of the Positive Birth Movement (PBM), says that Facebook removed several photographs from the PBM’s Facebook page and enforced a 24-hour ban on them. Facebook told them that the censored photographs had violated community standards.

 

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