http://www.facebook.com/communitystandards

“Facebook has a strict policy against the sharing of pornographic content and imposes limitations on the display of nudity. At the same time, we aspire to respect people’s right to share content of personal importance, whether those are photos of a sculpture like Michelangelo’s David or family photos of a child breastfeeding.”

facebook does not ban all images with nudity.  unless a complaint is made claiming that the nudity is pornographic.

anyways…reading is your friend.

Admittedly, not being permitted to spam this one cartoon to her ‘friends’ is a HUGE concern that eclipses Facebook’s considerably less sinister sharing of private information. If she’s smart, she will at least use this injustice as a small opportunity to whip up outrage for the purpose of gathering more friends to her Facebook page.

I guess I’m feeling too cynical today. She probably already closed her Facebook page because she care’s that much about art.

This may seem like quibbling and I’m not the most qualified to assign definitions, but wanted to throw it out there.

The character in question is not male or female, as decided by Wendy Pini.  H/she (the pronoun Pini uses) is a hermaphrodite with both male and female genitalia.  The fact that the character favors feminine hair and clothes is irrrelevant.  
The most fascinating point to me is the fact that unless you are a reader of the Pini’s Masque of the Red Death and knew this, you would judge a book by its cover and assume this character was female.  And therefore, according to Facebook’s rules, if not wearing a shirt, is obscene should be censored.

If this character has a buzz-cut and was sitting on a bed with blue sheets, but was otherwise the same, it’s doubtful the image would have been censored.  

And yes, to mcv’s point, the image is sexually suggestive – but only very mildly so.  And as a long time fan of Pini’s work, I’m quite certain that her response to that criticism would be “so what?”  The sexual nature of this photo, to me, ranks below a Victoria’s secret ad and certainly lower than a lot of what  you can see on prime time TV.  And again I’m sure Pini would argue that a little nudity and mild eroticism is a lot less obscene than the violence that pervades our entertainment media yet isn’t censored.

And to Brian Flowers’ point, the only reason it was censored is that someone reported it.  On Pini’s Facebook page, readers have posted other examples of artistic (and sexually suggestive) female toplessness that Facebook has not censored — as well as very erotic, shirtless males with much bigger breasts than Pini’s character Bunchh.

The point is that there’s a ridiculous double-standard in our society about showing male vs. female breasts, and also that as a society we are so rigidly bound by gender roles and stereotypes that we are utterly confused and made uncomfortable by anything that blurs those lines.  In this instance, Facebook is simply a vehicle for that confusion.

This is still on her FB page, I think.

So that’s fairly hypocritical of FB, no?

Edited to add URL of the image attached to this post, which is owned by Wendy Pini and Warp Graphics: http://www.cafepress.com/masquereddeath.413967334

And banned a good number of trans members.

Mind you, I still think the censorship is stupid. But I don’t make Facebook’s rules. Move to G+ if you don’t like Facebook’s rules.

Under ” What types of content are not allowed on Facebook? ”
It’s the first one on the list.

http://www.facebook.com/legal/terms

Part 7 of section 3. Safety

Google is your friend.

Further, Pini’s argument is that she drew an ambiguous character and that Facebook decided it was female, except the character’s appearance is not remotely ambiguous (their censor bar suggests a lot more than what the actual picture has.)

Frankly, the issue here is that she broke the rules (“no nudity or sexually suggestive content” ) then, when the site reacted as they said they would, manufactured outrage by falsely claiming discrimination.

Or, for that dash of irony, on the site that reported about the censorship dissenting opinions disappear. And Facebook just takes down pictures that break their policy, the person behind the article (or even Pini) made the censored version.

And that’s totally a chick. Having small boobs doesn’t make you “ambiguous.”