A Facebook-friendly tapir.
UPDATE: Facebook has determined that the posting was acceptable after all! See below.
Yesterday, we linked to a golden oldie (at least in internet terms) from Boing Boing's official Facebook page: the horror of tapir penises. Alas, this got our Facebook page–and the accounts of those of us who are admins–locked down until we each agreed to adhere to Facebook's Community Standards in future. So, I'm sorry if you had trouble with the page last night. Tapir cocks, alas, seem to fall afoul of "limitations on the display of nudity" under the porn section.
Unpublish! There should be an award for inadvertently cuttingly witty automated notifications.
Anyhoo, consider yourself notified: Facebook hates and fears tapir sex as much as it does cartoon hermaphrodite sex.
(It's also a good reminder that to whatever extent your business is dependent on Facebook, or Twitter, or the App Store, or Google Play, you work for them and they can fire you whenever they like.)
UPDATE: A member of Facebook's Public Policy and Communications team emailed to say that the takedown was, in fact, a mistake.
the post did not violate our policies and the content was removed in error. The content has been restored and we have removed any blocks on associated accounts. With a community of over one billion people, our team processes over one million reports each week and occasionally we make a mistake.
