Rowing Team Banned From Facebook For Being Nude For Charity

It seems as if every time I think Instagram is the most prudish website in existence, Facebook pops up to remind us all that it loves to masquerade as a respectable website. The site, on which you can typically find enough hate speech in a single post advocating for common sense gun control measures to make you lose faith in humanity, has banned the Warwick University Rowing Team's page after deeming pictures they posted to be "pornographic."

According to The Daily Mail (link below), the team was promoting their annual fundraising project, "Warwick Rowing's Women's Naked Calendar," which had already raised £3400.

The rowers were told they were breaching the social media sites’ ‘nudity and pornography’ policy.

Organiser Sophie Bell, 20, has blasted Facebook’s decision for harming their chances of raising more money for charity with their 2015 calendar, due to be released later this year.

The history and politics student, who has just finished her second year, said: ‘Facebook can unpublish pages after it gives you a warning to make amendments. That happened to us a couple of times over the last year where they would ask us to remove certain pictures randomly because they breached their nudity and porn regulations. ‘We always made the amendments and took the pictures down - even though they were no racier than the others - but a few days ago they emailed and said the page was being completely removed."

 

The group has sent countless emails to the US site in order to try and explain their situation but have yet to receive a response.