Tag: LACTIVISM

Breastfeeding mothers who seek to share photos of their suckling babies have been embroiled in a war with Facebook since way back in 2007, when the site began removing photos of nursing mothers. Much to the anger of these "lactivists," the social networking site deemed the photos to be "obscene content," hence their removal. Michael Arrington, TechCrunch's rumorist extraordinaire, recently took a ...

Last year we wrote about some online discontent about Facebook's content policies. The site was deleting some pictures of women breastfeeding, labeling them as obscene and, in the process, making many so-called lactivists rather irritated. A Facebook protest group was created but, after another recent round of photo deletions, the offended users took their protests to the street, gathering ...