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There are plenty of obstacles that could keep that vision from coming true. As a business that is entirely dependent on its users' whims, Facebook must manage its relationship with them just so. The site has tended to treat its users brusquely during periodic redesigns; its most recent one led to a 1.7 million-member Petition Against the "New Facebook" group. For the site's content police, though, the bigger risk is that they'll execute their censorship in a way that upsets some users. Last year mothers on Facebook began noticing that photos of themselves breast-feeding were being deleted. As so many things do on Facebook, the reaction went viral. As of last week, more than 230,000 people had joined a group named Hey Facebook, Breastfeeding Is Not Obscene! which promotes videos and online "nurse-ins." Facebook, though stung by the bad publicity, says it's not too worried: users may join a protest group, but the fact that they haven't quit the site altogether shows how sticky Facebook can be. It may not be making money yet, but Axten and his colleagues are playing a key role in the race to profitability—one deleted nipple at a time.

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Posted By: twitchit @ 11/07/2009 10:05:42 PM

I agree with all your comments irateredhead, thank you for posting something valuable. But I would change the ordering of your words from "it shows how off base we are as a culture" to "it shows off how base we are as a culture"!
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Posted By: twitchit @ 11/07/2009 9:00:21 AM

PageWraith, and it doesn't bother you that the "girls flashing their rack" will regret it later, when they are mature enough to know that they did it for misogynous creeps like yourself to abuse their naivety? You have no sense of ethics and you dare to be critical. Take a look at yourself.
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Posted By: Patatedouce @ 11/07/2009 8:49:22 AM

anonymous1980, it sounds like you are the one who needs to be fed only in the toilet. You obviously don't have the manners, respect or intelligence to live in society. And that's even without taking into consideration the possibility that you happily look at far more objectionable photographs of boobs than a mother innocently feeding her child, photos where the women/girls have been coerced if not forced into showing them so that idiotic creeps like yourself can objectify them in order to have a "sex life".