Sunday, May 20, 2012

Outcry after Facebook removes pic of dying baby




(Credit: WMC-TV Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)

No one can imagine what it's like to give birth to a child who will only live for 8 hours.


In Heather Walker's case, her son Grayson was born with Anecephaly, a condition that leaves part of the the skull exposed.


Hee died in February. Recently, Walker wanted to share pictures of him with her friends on Facebook. However, as WMC-TV reports, Facebook removed the photographs.


"They allow people to post almost nude pictures of themselves, profanity, and so many other things, but I'm not allowed to share a picture of God's beautiful creation," Walker, from Memphis, Tenn., told WMC-TV.


What followed was that she and her friends began to re-post the pictures on their Facebook pages.


Facebook's response was to -- in Walker's words -- ban her for 24 hours.


This was does not seem to have been the case. Walker was simply banned from posting pictures. Yes, any pictures, which is an automatic -- and, some might say, absurdly draconian -- response in these cases.


The company seems to have made a frightful mess of what is clearly a very personal situation.


Asked this morning why this had happened, Facebook told me that someone had complained about the photos. A human being at Facebook had taken the decision to remove some (but not a... [Read more]



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