Jennifer Astle
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 Fighting Facebook’s Curious Nipple Policy When artist Phil Hansen learned that Facebook was enforcing its ‘no nipples’ rule by removing images of women breastfeeding, he decided to put Facebook to a gender equality test. How? He created a collage made entirely of his own nipples and posted the image as his profile picture. The result? Facebook either missed Phil Hansen’s image, or were busy hemming and hawing over whether this was any more or less obscene than breastfeeding, because the image remained for a few days before being removed for violating the site’s terms of use. When it comes to differentiating between the female and the male breast on Facebook, it seems they aren’t having any of it. I suppose that’s tit for tat.  I really wanted to make sure people see nipples no matter how small the picture. I then spent 4hours planning where the pictures would go. The rest of the project was a lot like the Green River Killer piece, cutting and gluing the pictures together for what seems to be endless amount of hours, to create an image of myself as my profile photo on facebook.
(philinthecircle)References: philinthecircle, ireport Comment: on Social Networking Censorship |
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