You may remember that last year Facebook and My Space started removing breastfeeding pictures from their pages.
In response, a Facebook group was created, called "Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!" It now has over 50,000 members.
A group called Mothers International Lactation Campaign (M.I.L.C) is now organizing a virtual nurse-in. On December 27, M.I.L.C is urging Facebook members to change their profile pictures to a breastfeeding image. M.I.L.C. is also planning in-person events on that day.
From the event organizing site:
Facebook continues to classify breastfeeding photos as obscene content. They continue to arbitrarily remove these photos from member albums and profiles, accompanied by warnings of account termination. This is highly discriminatory and an affront to nursing mothers everywhere. In protest of this, Mothers International Lactation Campaign (M.I.L.C.) has planned a virtual day of protest...
In protest to the discriminatory and unjust policy of Facebook administration classifying breastfeeding images as obscene content, on December 27th, 2008 M.I.L.C. is asking all of you to change your profile picture for one day, to one which includes an image of a nursing mom.
This could be a picture of you or someone you know nursing a child, it could be a painting or image of a sculpture of a breastfeeding woman, it could also be a photo or image of any nursing mammal….We ask that you include the status line of “Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!”
For more information, go to Facebook and type M.I.L.C. into the search bar. You may need a Facebook account.
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