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Breastfeeding campaigners to protest at Facebook HQ in Dublin
Demonstrations will take place at Facebook offices in several cities across the world next week by protesters who are angry about Facebook deleting images of breastfeeding.
FACEBOOK OFFICES IN Dublin and several other cities are to be the focus of protests next week by groups speaking out against the removal of breastfeeding photographs from the social networking site.
Group oranisers say that protests will be held across the world on 6 February over Facebook’s removal 0f photographs of breastfeeding from the site – as well as the suspension of some accounts where such images are posted.
The argument between Facebook and breastfeeding advocates has been ongoing for several years. A petition page was created in 2007 named “Hey Facebook! Breastfeeding is not obscene” by users who were frustrated when their photographs were deleted by moderators who deemed them to be in violation of the website’s terms of use.
Facebook policy guidelines state that a user’s images can be deleted if they “contain nudity, drug use or other obscene content”.
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In a statement yesterday, Canadian mother and breastfeeding activist Emma Kwasnica said that she was frustrated after her account was – once again – suspended over the posting of a breastfeeding image. Kwasnica said that after speaking with staff about the matter, she felt that Facebook had “lost control” of its network:
It is obvious to me now that Facebook really has lost control of their network, especially when their written policy clearly states they support the sharing of breastfeeding images, yet they say they cannot control the actions of their employees who keep removing breastfeeding images and who block accounts of the users who post them – usually ‘in error’. This is exasperating to me.
Citing reports that the company was planning to file for entry to the stock markets in the coming months – which, according to estimates, would make the site worth between $75 billion and $100 billion – Kwasnica said that the some of the so-called ‘influential mom demographic’ was planning to “flex their muscles by telling their friends and family on Facebook, and by telling the world at protests around the globe, they want Facebook to stop harassing breastfeeding mothers”.
In response to the planned protest, a spokesperson for Facebook told TheJournal.ie: “We agree that breastfeeding is natural and we are very glad to know that it is important for mothers, including the many mothers who work at Facebook, to share their experience with others on the site”.
She continued:
The vast majority of breastfeeding photos are compliant with our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and Facebook takes no action on such content. However, some photos which contain a fully exposed breast do violate our terms and may be removed if they are reported to us.
Facebook said that the policies were based on the same standards as television and print media, and pointed out that the presence of minors on the site made it necessary to impose certain limitations on the display of nudity “even though that is not always convenient or acceptable to all audiences.”
The spokesperson added that the photos removed were almost exclusively brought to moderators’ attention by other users who complained about them.
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A quarter of all births to foreign mothers……
Thanks Fianna Fail for the ;
-unecessary cultural dilution,
-unecessary pressure on resources (like language teachers),
-and unecessary pressure on the social welfare system
the man is correct people who paid tax all their life cannot get social wselfare when circumstances go bad for them and the people who paid nothing get all, the indigenous people are the one,s bee discriminated against here now all you do gooders let me here your insults i,ll not
be afraid to show my face
Barry, children born here tend to grow up well immersed in Irish culture and competent in English. The language teachers are more usually needed for those born outside the country.
I agree with you barry r having had 2 kids in the last few years i see a big change in these hospitals since having my son a few years before that.from trying to get an appointment,which on one of my kids i would have had to wait till i was nearly 7 months gone,so had to go else where,to being asked quistions when filling out forms like are you white irish and what etnic group are you apart of.when you went for your visit you where lucky to get a seat as men wouldnt get up to let you sit down and so a nurse had to waste her time telling them to stand and yes most where non irish.you had the language situation and que skipping.when i had my last child me and another woman where the only 2 irish woman in the labour ward and yes all non irish got to see the socail worker for free this and free that.listen lads unless you have been through it you really dont know what your talking about.poor mid wives and nurses rushed off their feet and some of the non irish where so demanding,they spoke to staff as if they where dirt,throwing dirty nappies on the floor and spitting and excepting them to clean up after them.now in these hospitals you can only have 1 visiter per person because non irish where abusing the visiting hours.one man would come up in the morning and leave his other kids there all day.they would run around screaming and jumping on the beds while their mother talked on the phone or went missing.the nurses where meant to look after them too.it was a night mare and heres one that wont be going back
Seriously you cant tarnish everyone with the same brush and say that all non-irish people are getting social welfare for free. And I don’t need to have a child to understand the racist tone in some of these comments.
That is one of the most racist statements I have read in a long time. I can just imagine you resisting the urge to use the words ni***r or hun while writing that. Some of the nicest people I know are foreign nationals and the most obnoxious people I have ever had to deal with, professionally or personally, have always been Irish.
I hope your children manage to grow up not to develop the same sickening brand of racism as yourself.
Hmmm well I gave birth to my twins 2 years ago…on trains, on buses, in the hospital waiting room it was more often than not a non national who who give up his seat…i find your attitude absolutely appauling to be honest…I never once seen a person spit on the floor or throw diapers on the floor.
My partner is a non national and I couldnt ask for a better father for my kids ….maybe you’ll stop tarring everyone with the same brush!!!!!
Just because you haven’t seen these incidents doesn’t mean they don’t happen. Mary is referring to her own personal experiences so calling her racist is ridiculous and small minded. Get a grip. The most valid point is that you can’t tar everyone with the same brush but that’s exactly what both sides have done here; ALL foreigners are dirty, rude, queue skippers etc or NO foreigners are like this and I married one! Hypocrisy!!
I bet they speak better English than you do. And I’m pretty sure our own native drunks fucking up a&e rooms is probably the biggest strain on the system.
Mary, going by your theories, the only nice people on the planet are the 4 million odd “ethnic Irish” who live here. Every other person – more than 99.9% of humanity – is discourteous, dirty and aggressive.
Again, you cannot tarnish everyone with the same brush. I came to Ireland as a foreigner with very poor English, but I educated myself on your language and your culture and I have worked my arse off every day to make a good life for myself here. By the looks of it I have worked harder at learning English than you have – your grammar sucks!
I then gave birth to my two sons here in Ireland and I am raising them here as Irish citizens, respecting Irish culture and language.
So just because I am a foreigner does not mean that I treat the nursing staff badly or put myself in front of Irish mothers in the queue. I work just as hard as you to pay my taxes, so I am just as entitled to give birth to my children in an Irish hospital as you are.
While I believe that you have had bad experience with certain “foreigners”, we are not all the same.
I don’t treat every Irish person I come across like the one that burgled my house last month, so why would you speak of every foreigner in Ireland as if they are the same?
I do think we have enough immigration for the next 50 + or so years.
If we do continue to have mass immigration it will unfortunately breed hate against migrants.
In saying that the overwhelming majority of immigrants we have in Ireland are fantastic people.
I find this extremely racist.. There are many Irish people who behave a lot worse than those of different ethnicity.. Yes I understand it seems frustrating when the country is so tight with funds at the minute that these people get the same social help as most of us white Irish but that’s because they are clued in.. they know what they are entitled to. If all Irish people knew what they were entitled to there would be a lot less of this nit picking..
I have heard about the rudeness towards nurses and midwives from certain people of different ethnicity but to me personally I think its because people tend to remember these things just because it was a foreign person..
Barry, you made the comment. So take ownership of it. What you say speaks for your attitudes. I’m not saying you are a bad bloke, but I find this scapegoating of foreign born people disingenuous and quite honestly dangerous. The last thing this country needs is more social division.
I think people like Mary should first of all remember that if there’s one nation that’s scattered around the world it’s the Irish. They had to emigrate and be second class citizens in some countries and you should never forget that. Remember the signs in the UK “no Irish, no blacks”? Thinking like you and some others do will increase the possibility of that happening here. What happened to the thousand welcomes?
Another point I find alarming is that over a quarter of birds are by caesarean section. Why is this? I believe it’s because the hospitals simply don’t have enough staff, money and time to give women the time to deliver their children.
Jeroen i had my twins by emergency section…my consultant was determined to make me give birth naturally where all the signs eg my son being posterior fontelle and my daughter being breech pointed to me having to get a section…after being in the labour ward for 12 hours and labouring for 4 i was brought in and they tried to vaccuum my son out….i demanded a section!!!! my daughter was taken from my stomach flat (no heartbeat, not breathing) had to be resuscitated…in some cases they dont give a section until its too late…im glad i demanded the section bcos i dont think id have my daughter now if i hadnt insisted!!!
“THERE ARE MORE babies born in Ireland per year than in any other country in the European Union.”
There were 678,000 births in Germany last year against about 75,000 in ireland so, no, there were not “more babies born in Ireland per year than in any other country in the European Union”.
everything was fine when there was no crises! foreigners came here to work and earn more money… no need to be racist! there was no complain during the celtic tiger. and now… irish ppl are emigrating coz of unemployment. but foreigners are still here.. n they will be there… coz they are sure that they life is not is easy in their countries as ireland. unfortunately carl marx was right: ppl are equal when the economy is good…
Mixing up the gene pool is no bad thing. We are prone to a number of genetic illnesses due to our similar genes notably diabetes, cf, haemochromotosis. these are reducing with the inter culture marriages . I hear all sides and we shouldn’t forget we once broached the shores of more affluent nations to seek a better life and are doing so again now.
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