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BRUSSELS • Visitors to a Belgian art gallery were stunned when the security guards removed them from the nude paintings of Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens, which turned out to be a demonstration against Facebook blocking images for reasons of decency.
In a video published by the VisitFlanders Tourism Organization, two "social media inspectors" wearing uniforms sporting something like the Facebook logo approach people at the gallery to ask them if they have accounts. on social media.
Stunned tourists are directed to non-nude paintings.
"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 "focused on individual body parts such as abdominals, buttocks or cleavage" in a good mood, but a woman has opened far from the protesting gallery by raising his shirt to show the secu
Rubens, famous for his voluptuous female nude paintings, is one of the most acclaimed painters of the Baroque tradition.
But Facebook's policy of blocking advertisements that represent nudity meant that the VisitFlanders ads for the Rubens House Museum were treated the same as pornography.
The policy applies only to advertisements and paintings can be downloaded as normal messages.
"Advertisers follow more extensive rules than regular users," said Facebook spokesman
VisitFlanders said he was in contact with the platform in an attempt to solve the problem. [19659002] In 2016, Facebook overturned its decision to remove a famous Vietnam War photo of a naked girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, escaping after a napalm attack
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