David Heath
Monday, 12 July 2010 15:13
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After a world-wide storm of protest, Facebook has finally seen the light and admitted a topless doll doesn't offend its terms of service.
Last week, iTWire
reported of a fight between a high-end Sydney Jeweller and Facebook over supposedly "inappropriate content."
It would appear that proprietor Victoria Buckley's only sin was to display photos of a naked porcelain doll on her Facebook page as part of her business and product promotion. However, as Buckley described to iTWire, it was impossible to know which of her three Facebook pages contained the offensive material – she could only surmise that it was Ophelia.
"The big issue I've got is that they're very non-specific. It's a standard email probably based on algorithms of nipples and controversial things that they put in their system," said Buckley. "You don't have a voice, it's very easy to be voiceless on Facebook."
"I don't know their rules, this is a very questionable area. What constitutes 'nudity,' what constitutes 'art?' "
Exposing a wider problem, she continues, "The amount of support I'm getting shows that there's a lot of ire out there; there's a lot of people who have been in similar situations and fee hard done-by."
As we described earlier, Buckley created a "Save Ophelia" page which firstly had the images removed and subsequently was removed by Facebook – all with no notification to her. The Save Ophelia page has still not returned.
Like any small business that finds itself surrounded by dancing elephants, Buckley quickly removed the images for fear of being evicted from Facebook altogether – something that would have been particularly damaging to her business.
Facebook has now retreated from this position.
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