Facebook blocks nude painting by acclaimed artist

RAEL’S COMMENT:

Ridiculous! Facebook is using a technology of the future following principles of the Middle Age or Christian Inquisition. It’s becoming a guardian of old Judeo Christian sex guilt values instead of being a force of modernism, science, and liberation of dark ages taboos. Slowly, thanks to democracy, the world is evolving toward a freer and more open-minded society while Facebook is one of the powers trying to slow down this access to freedom. We cannot avoid wondering who are the people behind this idiotic and ultra-conservative censorship. Maybe it’s time for Facebook management to replace these censors by younger and more open-minded people.

Facebook has blocked an Australian auction house from advertising an acclaimed artist’s painting depicting nude figures.
Charles Blackman’s oil work Women Lovers features two nude women resting on a bed beside a cat.
Art broker Mossgreen tried to promote it on Facebook, but the social media network rejected it for « advertising adult products or services ».
Mossgreen chief executive Paul Summer said the decision was « ridiculous ».
« This is a very beautiful image that is not overtly sexual in any shape or form, » he told the BBC.
« It’s like going back to the 1950s. It’s ridiculous to censor this sort of thing. »
Facebook said its decision was final, although Mossgreen has since reposted images of the work.
« Such ads lead to negative user sentiment and we have zero tolerance towards such advertisements, » Facebook said in a message.
Last month, a French teacher took Facebook to court after it suspended his account for posting an image of a nude woman painted by 19th Century artist Gustave Courbet.
Acclaimed artist
Mr Summer said Women Lovers was expected to sell for more than A$45,000 (£28,000; $34,000) at auction next week.
« Nobody said a single thing until Facebook suddenly decided it was going to offend somebody, » he said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-39099726