Facebook has often found itself in a pretty uncomfortable position: trying to be a place of open expression, while also setting some groundrules over what its user can, and cannot post.
The network has not always shown the best judgment in trying to decide what to allow, and not allow. Facebook has gotten itself into trouble before, over videos and pictures of mother’s breastfeeding, as well as women showing their mastectomy scars. The company also allowed a video of a woman being beheaded to make the rounds, before reversing that decision.
These kinds of incidents have had the effect of not only potentially alienating users, but of confusing them as well. So Facebook had decided to clarify what, exactly, is and is not acceptable on its network. Facebook is not updating its policies and standards, it is simple making them easier to understand.
The updated Community Standards are now broken into four sections:
- Helping to keep you safe
- Encouraging respectful behavior
- Keeping your account and personal information secure
- Protecting your intellectual property
So, for example, self-injury, which falls under the “helping to keep you safe” monkier now explains in better detail what exactly Facebook means: it prohibits content that promotes or encourages suicide or any other type of self-injury, including self-mutilation and eating disorders. It do not, however, consider body modification to be self-injury.
Nudity, which comes under “encouraging respectful behavior,” addresses some of the blowback that Facebook had previously received.
“We remove photographs of people displaying genitals or focusing in on fully exposed buttocks. We also restrict some images of female breasts if they include the nipple, but we always allow photos of women actively engaged in breastfeeding or showing breasts with post-mastectomy scarring,” it writes.
The hardest section to regulate, Facebook said in the post, is hate speech. Overall, the company points out that what one person might be offended by might be a joke to someone else, and may not violate any of its standards………..
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