Kristy Kemp.
(Credit: Fox40 Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
Facebook's relationship with breastfeeding mothers has some Oedipal tinges.
It seems that ever since the site became populated by people who weren't university students desperate to find a warm body, Facebook has shivered at the site of anything that resembled a naked breast.
Even when it was actually an elbow.
Though breastfeeding mothers have always railed against Facebook's anti-breast policies, the company has always claimed that it is a medium, and therefore abides by the same standards as other media.
This is odd, because at the launch of Facebook Home, Mark Zuckerberg insisted that Facebook was actually a "community."
Still, one breastfeeding activist -- that is, someone who would prefer it if Facebook would just butt out of personal breast pictures intended only for family and close friends -- has finally secured a small victory over Facebook's Breast Police.
As Fox 40 in Sacramento reports, Kristy Kemp was banned from Facebook twice, after the breast police espied her breas... [Read more]
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