Belgian museums are uniting in protest against Facebook over artistic nudity ban

Belgian museums are banding together to take on Facebook over the social media giant’s rules on nudity, specifically of the artistic variety.

The Flemish Tourist Board is trying to convince Facebook to change its rules over how it treats artistic nudity from Flemish Masters such as Peter Paul Rubens. The tourist board, Visit Flanders, points out that its Facebook postings with images containing artistic nudity are often removed by the company when they try to promote them.

Basically, Facebook’s rules do allow for the paintings to be posted on its social network, but the issue arises once a Facebook page, such as the museum’s, wants to promote the post on Facebook advertising platform. Belgian museums are saying this is making it difficult for them to attract visitors to its locations. Read more...