Friday, 18 July 2014

Facebook Accused Of “Borderline Sexism” After Students’ Naked Calendar Banned

The female rowers have received considerable support online.


Students have had their attempts to raise money for charity by posing in a naked calendar scuppered after Facebook branded the images as pornography and removed them from the site.


Students have had their attempts to raise money for charity by posing in a naked calendar scuppered after Facebook branded the images as pornography and removed them from the site.


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Members of the University of Warwick Rowing Society shed their clothes to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.


Members of the University of Warwick Rowing Society shed their clothes to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.


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They managed to sell 1,500 copies of the 2014 calendar and raised over £3,000 for the charity.



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However, when the rowers tried to promote the calendar on social media, they discovered Facebook would not allow the shots to be hosted on the popular site.


However, when the rowers tried to promote the calendar on social media, they discovered Facebook would not allow the shots to be hosted on the popular site.


They were apparently told the nude pictures breached the site’s “nudity and pornography” policy.


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