Mom Breastfed Baby While Driving
Police say an Ohio mother has been charged with child endangering after another driver reported she was breast-feeding and talking on the phone while driving.
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Salma Hayek Breastfeeding An African Baby Boy. Wait, what?
No really, watch video below…. While being filmed by a Nightline camera crew on a recent humanitarian mission in Sierra Leone, actress Salma Hayek came across the starving baby of a woman unable to breast-feed. What is an superstar to do in such a situation? Why, pop out a breast on camera and nurse that baby….
“The baby was perfectly healthy, but the mother didn’t have milk. He was very hungry. I was weaning Valentina, but I still had a lot of milk that I was pumping, so I breast-fed the baby. You should have seen his eyes. When he felt the nourishment, he immediately stopped crying,” said Hayek.
Facebook Says No to the Whopper
To follow up on our previous post on the Whopper Sacrifice (delete 10 friends, get a Whopper) – the douchebags at Facebook pulled the plug on the app. First, they cockblock breast feeding mothers — and now Burger King!? Here’s the buzz roundup on the internets:
A Burger King spokeswoman today told Computerworld that Facebook took exception to the Whopper Sacrifice campaign and after days of negotiations, the fast food chain halted it. On the Whopper Sacrifice site, Burger King now says simply: “Facebook has disabled the Whopper Sacrifice after your love for the Whopper sandwich proved to be stronger than 233,906 friendships.” “Basically, the Facebook team felt the application went against what they stand for — connecting people,” said the spokesperson. “Facebook suggested changes to the application, such as not alerting people that they’d been sacrificed. They wanted that part disabled.” – from Computerworld
Facebook is overjoyed, right? What a great example to show the Madison Avenue agencies on how a big brand can get real engagement from users. This is the future of advertising. Or it could have been, if Facebook hadn’t shut it down, citing privacy issues:
We encourage creativity from developers and brands using Facebook Platform, but we also must ensure that applications follow users’ expectations of privacy. This application facilitated activity that ran counter to user privacy by notifying people when a user removes a friend. We have reached out to the developer with suggested solutions. In the meantime, we are taking the necessary steps to assure the trust users have established on Facebook is maintained.
- from Techcrunch
The app was overwhelmingly well-received — somewhat surprisingly, considering its mean-spirited nature. It did spur one group in protest, but that only garnered a paltry five members. The Whopper Sacrifice Network group and, more recently, the Petition to Re-Enable Whopper Sacrifice have 975 and 96 members, respectively. – from LAtimes
Facebook is No Boob
Facebook is standing firm on a policy that has led to the removal of some photos posted by women that show breastfeeding. The deletions have spurred Facebook members to stage protests both online and offline. Dozens of supporters gathered last Saturday at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., while online, and more than 11,000 members participated in a virtual “nurse-in,” or changed their profile photos to images depicting women breastfeeding. The controversy began after several women began noticing that photographs of themselves nursing their children had been flagged for removal. They formed a group called “Hey Facebook, Breastfeeding Is Not Obscene!” to protest a policy that prohibits members from uploading any content deemed to be “obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit,” which can include images showing exposed breasts. – from NYTimes
Protestors contest Facebook breast policy
Never declare war on breasts. You’ll always lose.
For some, nursing means a way to feed children and a natural part of motherhood. But some people insist nursing be left out of public view — and out of Facebook. The popular networking Web site has been criticized for removing photographs of nursing mothers. On Saturday, a handful of activists sang songs, held signs and breast-fed their children in front of Facebook’s Palo Alto headquarters in protest of that censorship. – From Palo Alto Daily News
The social networking site Facebook has already created a virtual world of friends and acquaintances who “gather” and update each other daily, if not hourly. Now it is becoming a gathering place for protesters, too. For a year now, breastfeeding proponents have been signing a petition on Facebook called “Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene,” to protest the number of nursing photos deleted from the site. Some 65,000 people have signed. Now they’re whipping out a new weapon: a virtual nurse-in. – From Atlanta Journal Constitution
Mom Kelli Roman got an unexpected Christmas Eve surprise: Facebook yanked her privileges to use the social networking site not long after she received an e-mail warning for “misusing certain features on the site.” Roman has been at the center of a growing controversy on Facebook that’s been brewing since last summer (and that we discussed last fall) — that some photos of breastfeeding are obscene. – From Washington Post
Woo hoo! Mother’s Group Plans Protest of Facebook’s Ban on Breastfeeding Photos
Mark Zuckerberg is such a boob. Here’s the buzz roundup on the “Facebook Nurse-In…”
A group of nursing mothers fed up with social networking site Facebook censoring their pictures plans to hold a “Nurse-In” to prove that breast-feeding is not obscene. The moms want Facebook to stop taking down pictures of breast-feeding mothers posted in member profiles. Under the leadership of a Utah mother the nursing moms have formed a group called “Hey Facebook-Breastfeeding is Not Obscene” and has attracted more than 54,000 members. As part of their protest they plan to all change their profile pictures to photos of themselves breast-feeding. – from WCSH6
Facebook is accustomed to parents complaining about racy photographs posted on its site, but now some mothers are seething over revealing pictures it refuses to allow on its pages. A group called the Mothers International Lactation Campaign, or MILC, is planning a “nurse-in” outside the social network’s Palo Alto offices to protest its removal of user-posted images that show women breastfeeding their babies. The demonstration, planned for Dec. 27, also will have a virtual component, as thousands of people on the Web make nursing photos their main profile picture. The protesters say breastfeeding is not obscene, and Facebook’s removal of their pictures sends the wrong message to mothers everywhere. A Facebook spokesman Tuesday clarified that the site does allow breastfeeding photos as long as they do not show a fully exposed breast. – from Inside Bay Area