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