Meta reviews call for more inclusive adult nudity policies
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- 20 Jan 2023
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Meta was reviewing a call by its oversight board to make its policies on adult nudity more inclusive, a spokesperson said Thursday, after the tech giant removed two Instagram posts showing transgender and non-binary people with their chests bared.
Neither post violated Meta’s policies on adult nudity, and in a statement released earlier this week, the board said it had overturned the company’s decision to remove them.
A Meta spokesperson told AFP Thursday that the company welcomed the board’s move and had already restored the images, agreeing they should not have been taken down.
But the board also seized the opportunity to call on Meta, which also owns Facebook, to make its broader policies on adult nudity more inclusive.
The current policy “prohibits images containing female nipples other than in specified circumstances, such as breastfeeding and gender confirmation surgery”, the oversight board wrote in its decision.
That policy, it continued, “is based on a binary view of gender and a distinction between male and female bodies”, and results in “greater barriers to expression for women, trans and gender non-binary people on its platforms”.
It called for Meta to evaluate its policies “so that all people are treated in a manner consistent with international human rights standards, without discrimination on the basis of sex or gender”. Read More…
