Facebook nudity rules
On Saturday, October 23, 2021, I created and posted on Facebook an album of my collection of photographs of the traditional Japanese sport of sumo. I called it “Japan Sumo” album, Facebook administration blocked this photograph as a violation of its community nudity and sex policy. Facebook’s computer algorithms deemed it an offensive picture. I appealed the decision. My appeal was rejected. And yet, after being rejected from my Sumo album, it was successfully posted on my Timeline with no complaint. The picture is not offensive to a reasonable person, I think. There's no sex involved - maybe some child abuse - and the nudity portrayed is only nudity that is appropriate for the sport of sumo - akin to the propriety of a swimmer's exposed skin. In this case, Facebook's algorithms are stupid arbitrary and wrong, not to mention inconsistent. And, there is no human to whom I can contest the decision. Both the decision, and its review are conducted by a computer algorithm. Both the photo and my appeal were rejected by the same computer program. Idiots!
So, I decided to post pictures of the Venus de Milo and Michelangelo's David - two world-famous nudes - to test Facebook's nudity policy. That also went well. I mean, it was successful. Maybe if I had tried posting photographs of actual human nude models rather than photographs of stone sculptures they would have been rejected, but …
Anyone can sexualize these images according to their particular fetish. You can sexualize anything if you had a mind to do so. But I suggest that would be unreasonable - I mean, unreasonable to over-sexualize anything. Even sex.