They already went over this on livejournal. Facebook is clearly behind the times.

people shouldn't breastfeed in public and should instead wait to let their babies EAT when they are alone in a dark corner and can expose their shameful breasts? good Christ. you'd rather have babies screaming on the bus and wherever else than let them eat in peace?

breastmilk is food for babies. if you're grossed out by breastfeeding, you should be grossed out by watching full-grown humans eat.

anyway, Facebook is a bunch of Big Brotherish crap and I can't believe people are still getting outraged by the shit it gets away with. worse, I can't believe people still willingly sign up to be part of it.

I think it's pretty laughable to kick people off for showing something natural and not obscene and yet at the same time drag their heals cleaning up groups that promote hate.

some college students are mothers.

and guzzling breastmilk is more reprehensible than guzzling booze?

I am at a loss.

Somehow in my post i forgot to note that i was surprised that people (ok women) were posting these pics.

but I have to say, when your breasts become huge and you can produce milk, they don't always seem to be your breast, so much as large & alien squirting objects

so maybe there's this disconnect...

Some states have laws permitting women to be topless for this purpose.. it really is not a salacious event.

Why post anything?

well, what i meant was there are some pictures i am cool with people seeing and some i'm not and at this point i would personally put "my boobs" in the "not cool" category. but i can see how moms might feel otherwise.

the fact is face book own the site...they can or unmake rules as much as they like. They can ban pics of red clothes...they can ban pics of ppl with brown hair...if you wanna show yourself breastfeeding bubs to a friend, then just email it. I have read similiar cases of where sites banned breastfeeding pics for the reason that they found the pics were getting large amount of hits each day. They feared the pics in question were perhaps being used by some ppl for unmoral reasons without the owner of the pics consent...it made sense to me...in the uk you can't take your cell phone into a public pool..for the reason that you cant use a phone under water, but also they found a certain element of strangers were picing young children in their bathers or snapping infants who had been left to run undressed...they banned to keep the sick element down to a minimum..again made sense...if face book for whatever reason wants to ban breastfeeding...it is their site,..they can do what they want...if you don't like,..go create your own version of similiar site...seems so simple...don't like the rules...don't go there.

No1 on sg wants 2 see pix of u makin out wit ur b.f. either.

no one's arguing whether facebook has the authority to delete the pictures, the argument is that it's silly.

Oh, Cigarette, let's make babies and then breastfeed them in public.

People are freaking out, again.

It reminds of a story a few years back about the photo developer at some drug store that turned in a guy and his roll of film of his naked daughter playing in the tub as kiddie porn.

I can't even begin to count the number of time someone has said on SG that "we have a right to say..." and then a dozen people come out of the rafters to point out that a website is not a personal forum. And the same applies to facebook as applies to SG. The owners of facebook can decide who and what to allow on their site. The end. And then anyone can protest and try to change things, but ultimately, they (fb) get to decide.

It doesn't make it any less stupid.

Breastfeeding is awesome. Yay for feeding from breasts.

But why do people do it for so long? I mean, until age three?

I don't know. I don't have kids.