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Women’s rights movement FEMEN has asked Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg to restore access to group's main page on the social network, after the company decided to close it last week.
FEMEN's pages are followed by 170,000 users, making it one of the biggest women’s communities on Facebook. However, the site accused them of spreading pornography and promoting prostitution and decided to block their main page, the same day the firm terminated with the French one.
On 2 July, the movement published a statement on its official site. “FEMEN continues to push for the resumption of access to its primary account on Facebook, closed on absurd charges of pornography. We ask to understand this collapse ASAP and rehabilitate us, as has already happened in the case of the account FEMEN France, the content of which is identical to ours.”
“For us, Facebook is not fun, but a tool for the transformation of the world and protect the rights of women on an equal footing with our nudity and boldness. Zuckerberg FEMEN is not pornography, bring back our Facebook!,” they added.
Following the closure of FEMEN's main page, the spokesperson of Facebook in Spain explained that the social network is not against the movement, and that the only problem is that they are not respecting policies on nudity.
FEMEN's page in Spain is still available, as the collective decided to blurred the nipples of their images. This action was group's decision, but Facebook uses to do it with pictures that contain naked people, as it did with an image of Adam and Eve published by The New Yorker years ago.
Founded in 2008 in Ukraine, FEMEN has protested across Europe in the name of feminist causes. In April, they organised demonstrations near mosques and Tunisian embassies in support of an activist who generated controversy after publishing topless photos of herself on Facebook. On 29 June, three members of FEMEN converged on a Swedish mosque and were promptly arrested.
FEMEN's pages are followed by 170,000 users, making it one of the biggest women’s communities on Facebook. However, the site accused them of spreading pornography and promoting prostitution and decided to block their main page, the same day the firm terminated with the French one.
On 2 July, the movement published a statement on its official site. “FEMEN continues to push for the resumption of access to its primary account on Facebook, closed on absurd charges of pornography. We ask to understand this collapse ASAP and rehabilitate us, as has already happened in the case of the account FEMEN France, the content of which is identical to ours.”
“For us, Facebook is not fun, but a tool for the transformation of the world and protect the rights of women on an equal footing with our nudity and boldness. Zuckerberg FEMEN is not pornography, bring back our Facebook!,” they added.
Following the closure of FEMEN's main page, the spokesperson of Facebook in Spain explained that the social network is not against the movement, and that the only problem is that they are not respecting policies on nudity.
FEMEN's page in Spain is still available, as the collective decided to blurred the nipples of their images. This action was group's decision, but Facebook uses to do it with pictures that contain naked people, as it did with an image of Adam and Eve published by The New Yorker years ago.
Founded in 2008 in Ukraine, FEMEN has protested across Europe in the name of feminist causes. In April, they organised demonstrations near mosques and Tunisian embassies in support of an activist who generated controversy after publishing topless photos of herself on Facebook. On 29 June, three members of FEMEN converged on a Swedish mosque and were promptly arrested.