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Re:Some onions were too sexy for Facebook by bleepblorp on Saturday October 10, 2020 @03:30AM (#24737215)
Only Zucker---- can speak to the rationale for Facebook's nudity policies. However, I've seen it speculated that FB's policy is driven by the fact that advertisers don't want to risk the blowback if one of their products were to be seen advertised next to any content religious conservatives will get upset about. Other sites that used to post various forms of semi-nudity have run into this problem.

Facebook itself may also be unwilling to risk losing advertising from conservatively-aligned companies by allowing material that their conservative clients would find offensive.

Religious conservatives can cause tremendous brand damage if a megachurch pastor happens to 'find' something blasphemous that he can use to motivate his flock to up their donations that week. For most companies it's not worth the risk of stirring up these people and it would not be surprising if this is also the case with Facebook.

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Re:Some onions were too sexy for Facebook by 082349872349872 on Saturday October 10, 2020 @04:04AM (#24737349)
One way my country "tramples on its citizens' inherent religious rights" is that priests here must, just as for the other professions, have degrees from accredited theological studies.

Not only does it free us from the more radical sort of bomb throwing islamic fundamentalist extremism, it also frees us from the more radical sort of female curve covering puritan fundamentalist extremism.

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Re:Some onions were too sexy for Facebook by intricatedetail on Saturday October 10, 2020 @04:22AM (#24737437)
"Religious conservatives" is another term for victims of manipulation techniques used by different organisations. It is all about enslaving ones mind in order to extract value from such person. Their sick views shouldn't be imposed on the rest of the society. "Religious" organisations should be banned from using various techniques e.q. If you don't do what's in the book, you will burn in hell. "Religion" should only be available to consenting adults.
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