Toerisme Vlaanderen denounces the censorship of the artistic nude on Facebook in a mocking video

False inspectors, dressed in FBI-stamped clothing, whose logo is strangely reminiscent of Facebook, ask visitors to Maison Rubens in Antwerp to move away from the painter's paintings. It must be protected at all costs
                     against nudity
                    ". All this is not real: it is actually a mocking video shot by Toerisme Vlaanderen

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Facebook does not like nudity, even if it is artistic. It is common knowledge that Mark Zuckerberg's social network has easy censorship when a piece of breast or buttocks points the tip of his nose on a Facebook page. This Sunday, July 22, Toerisme Vlaanderen decided to play this policy in a clip broadcast on Youtube.

"Indecent", really?
                    
                

But the initiative of the Flemish Office does not stop at this video. An open letter, written with several Belgian museums and cultural institutions and addressed to Mark Zuckerberg, is indignant at the situation: "
                     indecent. This is how the breasts, buttocks and cherubs of Peter Paul Rubens are considered. Not for us, but for you
                    "(19659005) The time is serious for culture that seeks to reach a wide audience and must, to do so, to use social networks. "
                     The promotion of our unique cultural heritage is today not possible on the most popular social network
                    Peter De Wilde, the CEO of Toerisme Vlaanderen. Especially since the Flemish Office intends to put back in the spotlight the great Flemish painters: Rubens, Van Eyck, Bruegel and many others are at the heart of a promotional plan that should extend from 2018 to 2020.