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Child nudity concerns see Facebook delete post including Pulitzer Prize-winning photo
Social media giant Facebook has provoked controversy by censoring an iconic photo over child nudity concerns. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image of a young girl fleeing bombs during the Vietnam War was part of a post by a Norwegian author which was then deleted by the network. His criticism of the move has also drawn support from politicians and the national press.
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What's more disturbing about all this is how much people worry about the fact that the picture contains a naked child, which is a perfectly natural thing, and not about the violence implied by the picture. This is something I've never understood about censorship in America. A naked human body is nothing wrong, but a person killing others is. Yet the former is forbidden and the latter is celebrated.