Spencer Tunick Nude Protest Challenges Facebook Censorship Rules
About 100 people stripped naked in front of Facebook’s New York offices as part of a censorship protest against Facebook and Instagram’s policies
4 June 2019
Spencer Tunick Nude Installations Take On Facebook and Instagram Censorship
The Body Installation artist Spencer Tunick has staged more than 75 large-scale installations using hundreds or thousands of nude participants in urban and natural settings around the world.
20 April 2019
Facebook Sent-Up By Flemish Tourist Board After Rubens Painting Ban
The Flemish tourist board has created a video protesting Facebooks continued censorship of old master paintings on their social media site. The government sponsored agency uses humor to send-up Facebook in a short video which has gone viral.
25 July 2018
Facebook Courbet Censorship Lawsuit Has Its Day In Paris Court
A French teacher who accused Facebook of censorship when they deleted his account for posting an image of a Gustave Courbet painting from 1866, L’Origine du monde (Origin of the World)
3 February 2018
Five Van Gogh Sunflower Paintings To Be Exhibited Virtually On Facebook
Vincent van Gogh painted several versions of one of the world’s most iconic paintings – Sunflowers. In 1888/9 in Arles in the South of France, the paintings represented beauty and the ever changing cycle of life and death.
11 August 2017
Facebook Bans Painting By Leading Australian Artist Charles Blackman For Indecency
Facebook is at it again! The taste and moral police have blocked an Australian auction house from advertising a well-known figurative painter’s work because it deems it indecent. Charles Blackman’s oil work entitled Women Lovers features two nude women resting on a bed beside a cat. The painting has been pulled down by the social media giant in a gesture which undermines culture in a return to Victorian attitudes of morality and repression.
1 March 2017
Facebook Backs Down After Banning Iconic Nude Vietnam-era Photograph
It’s been another controversial week for Facebook after an iconic Vietnam-era photograph of a girl fleeing a Napalm attack in… Read More
11 September 2016
Facebook On The Rampage Removing Museum Art From Social Media Website
In the continuing saga of Facebook vs the ludicrous notion that artist’s from Corbet to Maplethorpe to even Denmark’s national… Read More
14 February 2016
Facebook Loses Gustave Courbet Nudity Case In French Appeal Court
A French Facebook user who took the social media giant to court after his account was closed down for posting… Read More
13 February 2016
Gustave Courbet Case: Facebook Revises Rules Over Banned Content
Facebook has unveiled a revised and extended version of its “community standards” – the rule book through which the company… Read More
16 March 2015
French Court Rules It Has Jurisdiction In Gustave Courbet Facebook Case
In January of this year a French Facebook user took the social media giant to court after his account was… Read More
7 March 2015
L’Origine Du Monde Facebook Legal Battle – Court To Reach Decision
A French Facebook user has taken the social media giant to court after his account was closed down after he… Read More
24 January 2015
Your Private Photos Stolen & On Display
Two artists have created an exhibition of over 10,000 private photographs that they claim to have stolen from random people’s… Read More
13 April 2012