Dear Facebook – This is 9 year old Kim Phuc photographed in Vietnam 1972. She is screaming because napalm is burning her body after a US air strike. You decided to censor this image on Facebook because she is naked. That is an ignorant decision. We must always be confronted by her agony, her terror and fear. We must always be confronted by the injustice of dropping bombs on civilian areas. We must always be forced to own the consequences of our wars.
This image can NEVER be censored and it must NEVER be censored. We must always remember her nakedness when the drums for war begin to beat.
Good to hear that the left never wish censorship, or speech control.
Good progress .
As for the war drums I agree, Clinton before it dies will possibly start war.
Yes Clinton will start a war as she has been boasting action & beating the drum louder than anyone else.
Also her Clinton Foundation she is tied to, is also connected to many war weapons suppliers and by the donations from the ammunitions industry so she is “Donkey deep” in her wish to satisfy her masters.
There is no war Hiitlerly Clinton hasn’t endorsed. If you can’t wait to see the US and its “allies” (i.e. lapdogs) invade Iran and/or North Korea, vote Hillary 2016.
I am old enough to remember this photo and the film sequence that ran with it.
Any image depicting children’s genitals (or breasts on little girls who have none) is declared obscene and objectionable.
Incinerating children, or drowning them or sending them to war is acceptable.
America was built on the rubbish of Europe; why the fuck they should be the arbiters of taste and decency on this planet beats me…
True that, JS Bark,
just watch any old western and see how many guys got shot tipping over a whisky glass???
Trigger happy today as ever.
The Prime Minister of Norway (according to Al Jazeera)has come out and said that by Facebook deleting the photo, it is deleting history. And Facebook has reversed its decision.
But its explanation was very blah, blah-esque – unless whoever tried to censor it is from a country that had little exposure to the Vietnam War, I find this really quite incredible.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/09/norway-pm-joins-napalm-girl-protest-facebook-160909130042813.html
By Crikey dickens,…. you know, we have just seen little children suffering the effects of chlorine gas bombings in the middle east, – just one of thousands upon thousands of incidents in a chronological order that HAVE NEVER STOPPED OCCURRING since this photo was taken…
We have seen Doctors without Borders being bombed and killed , elderly people slaughtered, family’s exterminated , whole civilian society’s obliterated…
And Facebook,…. has the Victorian audacity to get all prudish about the above film footage????!!!
Are they insane?… are they trying to protect someones else’s agenda?… I don’t believe for one minute it has anything to do with morals.
They lie.
re Facebook & censorship
A much more alarming situation is reported by Glenn Greenwald, facebook allowing Israel to censor postings from Palestinians. As well, many Palestinians, including a woman poet, are arrested for what they post
Facebook Collaborating With Israeli Government To Determine What Should Be Censored by Glenn Greenwald
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45450.htm
So it’s not just governments we now have to scrutinise, Lois……
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