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		<title>New Yorker Cartoon Page Temporarily Banned by Facebook Because Nipples</title>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:35:06 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_61906" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonists/2012/09/nipplegate-why-the-new-yorker-cartoon-department-is-about-to-be-banned-from-facebook.html"><img class="size-medium wp-image-61906" title="âWell, it _was_ original.â" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/stevens-cartoon201.jpeg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="236" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The titillating cartoon in question. (Photo: Mick Stevens, The New Yorker)</p></div></p>
<p>Despite what those skimpy bikini pics in your news feed might indicate, Facebook has really been <a href="http://gawker.com/5885714/inside-facebooks-outsourced-anti+porn-and-gore-brigade-where-camel-toes-are-more-offensive-than-crushed-heads">cracking down</a> on nudity recently. Even camel toes are <a href="http://gawker.com/5885714/inside-facebooks-outsourced-anti+porn-and-gore-brigade-where-camel-toes-are-more-offensive-than-crushed-heads">inappropriate</a> now! But what about cartoon imagery? Surely line-drawn naked bodies are art, are they not?</p>
<p>Actually...not. Turns out Facebook has become so prudish that they <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NewYorkerCartoons">temporarily banned</a> the <em>New Yorker's</em> official page because one of its cartoons was deemed too racy.</p>
<p><!--more--><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonists/2012/09/nipplegate-why-the-new-yorker-cartoon-department-is-about-to-be-banned-from-facebook.html">According</a> to <em>The New Yorker</em>, they were banned from Facebook for posting a Mick Stevens cartoon that depicts a naked Adam and Eve with their nipples--just two sets of plain black dots--showing. But even naked biblical characters or artistically rendered depictions of female nipples (male nipples are A-O.K.) are against Facebook's rules.</p>
<p><em>New Yorker</em> Facebook commenters are rightly outraged: "Women have boobs. Boobs have nipples. Grow up and move on!" wrote one named Ben Mixter.</p>
<p>Ross Thompson had another explanation. "It's all because Mark Zuckerberg had so much trouble getting laid in college," he wrote. "Everything Facebook has done since then flows from that."</p>
<p>Hmm, maybe he's on to something--Aaron Sorkin, is that you?</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_61906" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonists/2012/09/nipplegate-why-the-new-yorker-cartoon-department-is-about-to-be-banned-from-facebook.html"><img class="size-medium wp-image-61906" title="âWell, it _was_ original.â" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/stevens-cartoon201.jpeg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="236" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The titillating cartoon in question. (Photo: Mick Stevens, The New Yorker)</p></div></p>
<p>Despite what those skimpy bikini pics in your news feed might indicate, Facebook has really been <a href="http://gawker.com/5885714/inside-facebooks-outsourced-anti+porn-and-gore-brigade-where-camel-toes-are-more-offensive-than-crushed-heads">cracking down</a> on nudity recently. Even camel toes are <a href="http://gawker.com/5885714/inside-facebooks-outsourced-anti+porn-and-gore-brigade-where-camel-toes-are-more-offensive-than-crushed-heads">inappropriate</a> now! But what about cartoon imagery? Surely line-drawn naked bodies are art, are they not?</p>
<p>Actually...not. Turns out Facebook has become so prudish that they <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NewYorkerCartoons">temporarily banned</a> the <em>New Yorker's</em> official page because one of its cartoons was deemed too racy.</p>
<p><!--more--><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonists/2012/09/nipplegate-why-the-new-yorker-cartoon-department-is-about-to-be-banned-from-facebook.html">According</a> to <em>The New Yorker</em>, they were banned from Facebook for posting a Mick Stevens cartoon that depicts a naked Adam and Eve with their nipples--just two sets of plain black dots--showing. But even naked biblical characters or artistically rendered depictions of female nipples (male nipples are A-O.K.) are against Facebook's rules.</p>
<p><em>New Yorker</em> Facebook commenters are rightly outraged: "Women have boobs. Boobs have nipples. Grow up and move on!" wrote one named Ben Mixter.</p>
<p>Ross Thompson had another explanation. "It's all because Mark Zuckerberg had so much trouble getting laid in college," he wrote. "Everything Facebook has done since then flows from that."</p>
<p>Hmm, maybe he's on to something--Aaron Sorkin, is that you?</p>
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