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10-11-15
The New Censors: Facebook and Instagram
by Brian Hoffman
In the social media age, it is not necessarily morality that determines what we can see, it’s branding.
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SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
4-30-13
Greeks to stop Qatari nude cover-up
Nudity is an all or nothing kind of thing, as Qatari authorities recently discovered. Seek to drape the naughty bits of a pair of ancient sculptures of nude male athletes, and you end up with no nudes at all.This is precisely what happened at Alriwaq Doha exhibition space. Having loaned the gallery the two sculptures for its Olympics Past and Present exhibition, Athens preferred to see them returned than exhibited with their modesty veiled.The Qatari anxiety about displaying the naked body has a different root — but is no more or less valid — than that which saw thousands of statues suffer the chop across the history of the Western world....
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