Re: Facebook Breastfeeding Dispute
[QUOTE=feather;703200]Ultimately Facebook exists on the internet. It's very existence hinges on the fact that it connects people of all races and cultures across geographical boundaries through the internet. When it sets its no nudity policy, it has to cater to the world, not just America or Australia or Asia. Naturally it caters its policies to the lowest denominator, and this is not even enforced until someone else flags the pictures or posts.
So someone found the pictures offensive, Facebook exercised its user agreement and removed those pictures. How difficult is that to understand? Facebook performed a service based on someone else's feedback, so why call out Facebook for being the executioner? It's that someone else who's the issue.
And secondly, Facebook is privately owned. Nobody pays them or has shares in them. Facebook doesn't have to answer to anybody. We use Facebook services as a privilege bestowed upon us when we register, but these privileges can be restricted or removed anytime. Facebook doesn't owe anything to anyone. [QUOTE]This is all true and balanced and nobody has denied that. But anyone has the right to protest against any private or public entity they like! Whether I agree with their protest. I support that right of protest[/QUOTE]
If these breast feeding women took a step back and tried to understand where Facebook is in the bigger picture of the internet, as opposed to living in their own lactating world and crying foul over every small thing that infringes upon their precious beliefs, they'll see how juvenile this is. It's such a typical reaction to think everything revolves around 'me.' Someone did this to 'me,' someone is against what 'I' stand for. The world is against 'me.' Hello, the world is a lot bigger than a pair of lactating tits. [QUOTE]This is highly offensive. Of course there is more and I'm sure everyone is living it, but the discussion was about breast feeding. You might like to run that by three hills as well. he would probably be able to tell you that when a women is breast feeding the lactating tits are a a huge part of a women's life. In fact it you read his post he made that pretty clear.!! What started as a debate on what Face book could or could not do has turned, in some cases, to an attack on breast feeding women. [/QUOTE]
Which brings me to the comment about them being fanatics. Once you take up a cause, you run the risk of feeling justified and self righteous, you run the risk of feeling marginalised or entertain a polarised point of view which turns into a case of you're either with us, or against us. You project your own beliefs and issues onto everything that happens to you, as though everything is personally relevant.[/QUOTE]
Well, you are actually describing the attitude YOU are projecting at the moment, labelling people fanatics because YOU don't agree .
Breast feeding is a a wonderful thing, which because of the lives we lead has actually become increasingly difficult. There is the other side of the coin to the coin, well expressed in this thread, that it is something a bit grubby , not to be undertaken in public areas. Even although personally I would not want to breastfeed in public, I am amazed that it is viewed this way.
Miroslav, women CAN"T breast feed anywhere they like, or want. . If you actually look at history, for a normal human function, it has always been a major social problem for women one way or the other. Which makes the original issue all the more interesting.
BTW. Back to the issue!! I don't actually agree with this protest but I do understand it, . Just as I understand that Facebook has the right to take down anything off it's own site .
Well Ok maybe don't run it past Threehills:(