Another Gay Facebook Photo Removed
Filed under: Totally GAY!, Tyrell
Author: Tyrell
Date: Jun 28, 2011
There are many reasons why people out there dislike one of the most popular social networking sites in the world: Facebook. Some hate their privacy settings (or lack of making them easily accessible), some hate their constant change of layout and style while others just hate the idea of having your classmates from yesterday being able to creep all up on your business. While I don’t like to throw the word hate around, there is one thing I despise about Facebook and that is when they remove photos that don’t need to be removed. This has happened previously when a gay kiss photo was removed from Facebook due to certain violations of terms.
This time, some gay kissing is the subject of Facebook’s removal once again. In celebration of New York receiving the rights to gay marriage, a photo was placed on Facebook to celebrate. The photo read Victory In New York (as pictured above) and featured two sailors kissing. The two sailors are from David LaChapelle’s famous photo used in a Diesel ad campaign. The photo also paid tribute to the historical V-J Day. As 100′s of people began to “Like” the photo on the site, it mysteriously disappeared and the user received the following message from Facebook stating the photo had been removed because it held:
“content that is pornographic or contains nudity, or is inappropriately sexual.”
Right. So I am missing the part where anything about this photo is pornographic, contains nudity or is in any way inappropriately sexual. ARE YOU NUTS FACEBOOK? I have seen photos on Facebook way more pornographic than this grace the site yet they still remain. Needless to say, multiple users of the site obviously sent a multitude of emails to the site to explain themselves as to why the photo was removed.
“Upon investigation, we concluded the photo does not violate our guidelines and was removed in error. We apologize for the inconvenience. “
Wow, I can’t believe that Facebook thought that removing this photo which seemed to be based on two male sailors kissing, seems a bit more than inconvenient to me. While the moderation and removal of the photo may have been computed without human interaction, do you think that closer measures should be taken to make sure these mistakes aren’t made and actual offensive photos are removed? Sound off in the comments below.
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Josh
June 28th, 2011 at 3:16 am
You’re taking offense over nothing. Facebook automatically removes pictures when someone complains about it, then an actual human looks at it and decides if it’s actually offensive. The same thing would happen if you complained about a picture of a man and a woman kissing.
KC
June 28th, 2011 at 8:34 am
Type in “kiss” as a search, and there are tons of guy-girl kissing sites. @Josh, so let’s test your theory and flag those sites of guy-girl kissing and see if they will actually remove them “automatically”. Are you willing to bet on that?
KaironStar
June 28th, 2011 at 11:58 am
On one hand, yes, the picture could have been removed because some stone-age-people complained about it. On the other, it could have been done by human work, some employees review this requests and sadly removed them because of their own issues.
Rob
June 28th, 2011 at 3:23 pm
Josh is right. You really think Fackbook has the manpower to pore over every photo uploaded into their servers? It’s built into the system that when enough users flag something it gets removed and is then looked at by a person. The problem isn’t facebook, it’s the hoards of biggots flagging gay images as ‘offensive’.
czahn
June 28th, 2011 at 9:08 pm
im gonna put up my profile pic of myself on valetines day suckin face with some hot ass random and see how long it stays up!
Scott
June 29th, 2011 at 1:49 am
It sounds like a mistake of some low-paid intern. Remember we’re only hearing about the mistakes, not the thousands of photo removal requests that are probably handled.