Photos That Violated Facebook's Policies

A very understandable misfire by FB's porn detection algorithms, considering the unintentionally saucy text submitted with those cute photos of Nut the cat: <i>"...Here you can see in more detail how Nut presses her face as hard as she can into mine. She does this all night, by the way. If I move my face away, she rearranges herself to grip the back of my head as tightly as possible. If I'm face-down on the pillow..."</i><p>--<p>Edit: changed "probable" to "very understandable," and quoted some of the text submitted with those photos.

Just call customer serv... oh, nevermind. You pay Facebook by surrendering privacy and personal information, but that's not enough for them to consider you a customer or offer support. The same server that automatically flagged your harmless photo will gladly issue you an equally automatic and thoughtless rejection when you appeal.<p>The faceless Facebook machine will march on, paying no regard to the innocent consumers it accidentally crushes in pursuit of more ad views.

Obvious: The cat was completely naked.

I saw three people on my own facebook feed complaining of their photos being flagged as inappropriate. My take is that this is a new feature or a regression.

A false positive on a facebook algorithm warrants an entire "my liberties are being trampled" article? All follow-up notifications are obviously automated dominoes falling from the initial warning; why the feigned surprise?

I hate how companies wants to decide how one can use their freedom of speech. If I wanted to post nude photos of myself on facebook, well, why shouldn't I be allowed it? Maybe they could force them not to be public, but friends only. Then people could unfriend people, if they were offensive.<p>Same with Apple not allowing nude pictures on their iBook store.

It's quite possible that the photo was marked as inappropriate by someone else - or their filter picked on the description. I can see how an algorithm could easily find that dirty. Should be interesting to see how this turns out

This is exactly one of the cases where it would be helpful (and good for Facebooks PR) to have some customer support.<p>Or even a basic -- let 10% of my friends review this and then come back -- option would be better than that.

Given the suggestive text, "cat" was clearly a polite euphemism.