Facebook's guidelines visually sum up "offensive things" with this blue text balloon. Meaning, it doesn't resemble a "fully exposed buttock."
Images and posts of cultural importance sometimes fly in the face of conventional standards of offense, a fact that online services haven't always fully parsed. As a social-media gatekeeper, Facebook acknowledged some of its failures in this regard on Friday by announcing that it had begun easing up on banning images and posts that violate the site's guidelines—while simultaneously contending with allegations that it had previously bent those rules in favor of Donald Trump.
The guideline-related announcement follows an early September dust-up over the site banning and removing a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo taken during the Vietnam War. The photo shows a crowd of crying, screaming children, including a fully nude nine-year-old girl, running away from a napalm strike. At the time, Facebook had summarily banned all posts of the image, even by those protesting its removal from the site. In some cases, Facebook issued temporary site bans to users who had uploaded the image. The social media giant eventually relented and allowed those original posts to reappear as they had originally been posted.
Facebook says that it will not update the site's current guidelines, which prohibit images that include "genitals, "fully exposed buttocks," and "some images of female breasts if they expose the nipple." (Those rules were updated in 2015 to permit images of breastfeeding, years after users complained about that restriction.) Instead, the site will "begin allowing more items that people find newsworthy, significant, or important to the public interest—even if they might otherwise violate our standards," according to the pair of Facebook VPs who co-signed the letter.
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