Recently my wife found the following picture on her Facebook stream …
Because she’s hardass, she wanted to know what the hell the picture could be, so she clicked on it to discover it was this …
That’s right, a woman breastfeeding.
A woman giving life to a new life.
Literally one of the most wonderful things a mother can do for her child.
And Facebook thought it was potentially offensive.
I’ll tell you what I find offensive Facebook … you allowing a company to steal our data and then act slowly to stop it. Or how about allowing fake accounts to try and influence public opinion. Or then there’s letting groups who openly promote hate use your site to ‘rally members’.
I tell you what I don’t find offensive.
A picture of a woman feeding her child.
For all the talk you give about wanting to help society connect to each other and encourage a better life, I have to say you absolutely suck at it.
This was a chance for you to show what you stand for.
Take a stand for what is absolutely, unquestionably right.
But instead you bottled it – fearful of offending people who make a career out of being offended.
How you can be OK with issues of privacy but not about feeding a child is beyond me … which is why you might need to get out of your Silicon Valley bubble because your values are more in tune with Wall Street than the average High Street.