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July 27, 2018 14:20:24
Visitors to a Belgian art gallery were stunned when security guards put them to the ################################################################ 39, away from the bad paintings of the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens. Facebook blocking works for reasons of decency
In a video published by the VisitFlanders tourism organization, two "social media inspectors" wearing uniforms sporting a Facebook logo are approaching people in the gallery to ask them to s & # 39; They have accounts on social networks
If they answer yes, stunned tourists are directed to non-bad pictures.
"It's for your own protection," say actors who block their vision of a painting of Adam and Eve at the Rubens House-Museum in Antwerp
Most art lovers ban paints" focused on individual body parts like abdominals, bad or neckline ", but a woman left the gallery to protest by raising his shirt to show
Rubens, famous for his voluptuous female bad paintings, is one of the most acclaimed painters of the Baroque tradition.
But Facebook's policy of blocking advertisements that represent nudity meant that VisitFlanders advertisements for the Rubens House Museum were treated in the same way as badgraphy.
The policy only applies to advertisements, and the paintings can be downloaded as normal messages.
"Advertisers follow more rules users, because these messages are proactively pushed in place of you, as a user, for example, deliberately decides to follow the Facebook page of House Rubens," said A Facebook Spokesperson
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In 2016, Facebook canceled its decision to remove a famous Vietnam War photo of a naked girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, who was running away after a napalm attack
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arts and entertainment,
history of art,
tourism,
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travel and tourism,
social media,
internet culture,
badgraphy,
Belgium
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July 27, 2018 14:08:23
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