Facebook bans Lovers Of Naked Snow group over photo
A GROUP featuring naked people from Hull in the snow has been banned from Facebook.
The light-hearted page – Lovers Of Naked Snow – attracted more than 2,000 followers after it was set up last week.
But the page was removed from the social networking site after concerns over the revealing nature of one photograph.
Now, a campaign has been launched to lift the ban on the page showing Hull men baring all in sub-zero temperatures.
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Founders were hoping to use its popularity to create a charity calendar, but fear the plans will have to be scrapped.
David Hanrahan, of east Hull, one of the founding members of the group, said: "I'm absolutely gutted they've taken it down.
"The lad who set it up, Shane Fisher, has been away in Majorca and a friend and I were added as administrators. It had been closely monitored to ensure nothing out of order was posted."
However, Facebook sent notifications to Shane raising concerns over one of the photographs, which he didn't see until it was too late.
David, 42, said: "Facebook didn't message me or my friend and it was just taken down when Shane didn't reply.
"We had already looked into selling a calendar and so many people would have bought it.
"We had it priced up and the publicity had been great. We were thinking of donating the money to a cancer charity.
"After the group was pulled down, a new one was set up campaigning to bring it back. It had thousands of followers in just a day.
"But that group quickly vanished as well. Facebook is not letting us do it at all.
"We have tried to contact them but they are a closed shop, there's nobody to explain the situation to.
"It's a real shame because so much money could have been raised."
Another user of the site said: "The Facebook society has been in uproar and what had been a really funny, light-hearted buzz for loads of people in Hull has now turned into a real downer."
Lee Shaw, who also posted his picture on the site, said: "It is such a shame that it has been closed down due to a few people not understanding the light-hearted context it was set up for.
"But, hopefully, we can still pull together as mates and get this calendar up and running so local charities can benefit from the proceeds.
"The Facebook site was set up just to see what response we would get, which was amazing, so, hopefully, we can continue."
The Mail contacted Facebook regarding the banning of the group, but no one from the social networking site replied.
Comments
by Love2012
Thursday, March 15 2012, 11:24AM
“I am glad it got shut down,well done Heston Charlton”
by dbdbdb
Wednesday, February 15 2012, 11:40PM
“Use Vkontakte, no restrictions or for that matter copyright at all. Very easy and fast to use, just make sure you setup a profile in english not russian.”
by BritNaturism
Monday, February 13 2012, 11:09PM
“Facebook is one example of many self-appointed censors who are accountable to no-one for their censorship. They are also American - the US being one of the most prudish nations in the so-called 'free world'.
Taking 14 nations from the 'free world', we ranked them in order of their attitude to nudity and then found that in doing so we had ranked them in order of their rates of teenage pregnancy, abortions and STI's, with America as the most prudish and having a teenage pregnancy rate TEN times that of Denmark at the other end of the scale. Our worry is that via the likes of Facebook they will export their prudishness and their poor rates for these factors with it.
Similar trends are shown for sexual crime as well as eating disorders. The UK has probably suffered more influence from America than most in Europe over the years, due to having a (largely) common language, so we have had more American films and TV programmes filling our screens; so perhaps it should be no great surprise that our teenage pregnancy rate is only half that of America - but that's still 5x that of Denmark!
For more reading on this see:
http://tinyurl.com/88mw4zx
http://tinyurl.com/8xwar69”
by shazzabazza71
Monday, February 13 2012, 7:30PM
“Wouldn't it be terrible for humans to see other humans......mind you I would not sit in the snow naked but each to their own”
by jadesam2007
Monday, February 13 2012, 6:11PM
“its fun people need to learn to live a little! if people dont like what their doing or dont like the photos dont look its simple!.. it shouldn't of been took of facebook its pathetic!.. i hope i gets back up and a calander is brought out il definitely buy one :) .. people need to get a sense of humor just saying....”
by soozhull68
Monday, February 13 2012, 6:07PM
“Ridiculous! I've reported racist and homophobic abuse to Facebook as have other people and nothing's done, yet you show a bit of flesh and offend nobody and suddenly Facebook's 'police' give a damn.”
by gerry_gilbert
Monday, February 13 2012, 4:18PM
“Facebook sucks for many, many reasons, including censorship. I'd advise these folk to set up a Flickr group as that's dedicated to photo collections and allows 'adult' content as long as it's clearly marked, and Flickr is a f*ck of a sight easier to use than FB.”
by naturalian
Monday, February 13 2012, 4:10PM
“There is nothing wrong with the unclad body, No-one has ever been harmed by the sight of another human being,NATURALLY dressed in their skin, so why are some people incl those at facebook so FRIGHTENED of a bit of skin? We should all be free to wear as much or as little or nothing as we please.”
by BagetteCock
Monday, February 13 2012, 4:08PM
“I feel obliged to make a joke about chapped lips...”
by IvorTwitch
Monday, February 13 2012, 3:15PM
“Porn is ot allowed on facebook”