Facebook just attempted to clarify what you are and are not allowed to share on Facebook without getting your account shut down. The company has gotten some bad press for treating a painting of a nude woman (art, man) the same way it treats hardcore pornography, and in a new blog post that absolutely nobody will read, Facebook says it's aiming to "[provide] more detail and clarity on what is and is not allowed. For example, what exactly do we mean by nudity, or what do we mean by hate speech?"

Well, as everyone knows, it's very easy to draw clear lines around categories of speech for the purposes of suppressing it. To help you better understand Facebook's rules, we've reproduced the text below, alongside the type of images that are allowed under the new rules.

We remove photographs of people displaying genitals or focusing in on fully exposed buttocks.

So this should be okay:

We also restrict some images of female breasts if they include the nipple, but we always allow photos of women actively engaged in breastfeeding or showing breasts with post-mastectomy scarring.

This photo of a woman actively engaged in breastfeed should be fine:

We also allow photographs of paintings, sculptures, and other art that depicts nude figures.

Like this beautiful photo of "Womantaur," a fiberglass statue by artist Peter Keresztury:

Or this work of sculpture depicting the Queen of England's breasts by Italian artist Paolo Schmidlin.

Restrictions on the display of both nudity and sexual activity also apply to digitally created content unless the content is posted for educational, humorous, or satirical purposes.

So this Seedfeeder illustration from Wikipedia should be fine, since it's posted for education purposes:

As would this image of Donkey Kong's penis, which I find extremely humorous

Explicit images of sexual intercourse are prohibited. Descriptions of sexual acts that go into vivid detail may also be removed.

No explicit sexual intercourse here.

It has all been cleared up and these new rules should work well.

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