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Facebook Bans Painting By Leading Australian Artist Charles Blackman For Indecency

Facebook Bans Painting By Leading Australian Artist Charles Blackman For Indecency

by News Desk | Mar 1, 2017 | News

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...

Facebook Backs Down After Banning Iconic Nude Vietnam-era Photograph

by News Desk | Sep 11, 2016 | News

It’s been another controversial week for Facebook after an iconic Vietnam-era photograph of a girl fleeing a Napalm attack in 1972 was removed from the Norwegian writer Tom Egeland’s  Facebook page. The image was banned for breaching their code of practices as...
Facebook On The Rampage Removing Museum Art From Social Media Website

Facebook On The Rampage Removing Museum Art From Social Media Website

by News Desk | Feb 14, 2016 | News

In the continuing saga of Facebook vs the ludicrous notion that artist’s from Corbet to Maplethorpe to even Denmark’s national mascot The Little Mermaid are obscene, we present the latest case. Meet the 52-year-old who isn’t allowed on Facebook because...
Facebook Loses Gustave Courbet Nudity Case In French Appeal Court

Facebook Loses Gustave Courbet Nudity Case In French Appeal Court

by News Desk | Feb 13, 2016 | News

A French Facebook user who took the social media giant to court after his account was closed down for posting an image of Courbet’s controversial painting ‘L’Origine du Monde,’ 1866, has won the case on appeal in France’s high courts. The...
Gustave Courbet Case: Facebook Revises Rules Over Banned Content

Gustave Courbet Case: Facebook Revises Rules Over Banned Content

by News Desk | Mar 16, 2015 | Features

Facebook has unveiled a revised and extended version of its “community standards” – the rule book through which the company governs what is acceptable material uploaded to the site by its 1.4 billion users; expanding the categories that it deems as unacceptable...
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