{"id":256702,"date":"2018-02-03T13:54:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T18:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=256702"},"modified":"2021-04-15T19:47:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T23:47:31","slug":"vagina-masterpiece-cost-me-my-facebook-account-teacher-tells-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/vagina-masterpiece-cost-me-my-facebook-account-teacher-tells-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Vagina masterpiece cost me my Facebook account, teacher tells court"},"content":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

All Facebook users having their account cancelled or suspended for posting arts depicting nudity should, like this man, prosecute Facebook. I would not hesitate one second to bring them to court. Censorship of art is a terrible attack on freedom of expression.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Facebook has told a French court that it did not delete a user’s account because he posted a picture of a 19th-century painting depicting a woman’s crotch area by influential artist Gustave Courbet.<\/p>\n

Teacher Frederic Durand claims that the social media giant shut down his account after he uploaded a photo of Courbet\u2019s\u00a0\u2018L’Origine du Monde\u2019\u00a0(The Origin of the World), which is on display in the Musee d’Orsay in Paris.<\/p>\n

In the long-running saga Durand accuses Facebook of deactivating his account\u00a0\u201cwithout warning or justification\u201d\u00a0in February 2011, AFP reports.<\/p>\n

He sued the company in the name of freedom of expression but because of a row over jurisdiction the case only came before the court on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The teacher has repeatedly tried to have his account reinstated but Facebook says this is impossible because it only stores data from deleted accounts for 90 days. He is also seeking \u20ac20,000 in damages from the Silicon Valley behemoth.<\/p>\n

The offending post was a link to an article exploring the history of the classic work of art from 1866. The article had a picture of the painting as a thumbnail.<\/p>\n

Durand\u2019s lawyer Stephane Cottineau argued that the painting is\u00a0“part of France’s cultural heritage\u201d\u00a0and shouldn\u2019t have fallen foul of Facebook\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n

The detailed depiction of the woman’s genitals has been\u00a0“glorified, made sublime, through the talent of the artist,\u201d\u00a0Cottineau said.<\/p>\n

The Musee d’Orsay says on its\u00a0website\u00a0that the Courbet\u2019s piece\u00a0“escapes pornographic status\u201d\u00a0thanks to the artists\u00a0\u201cgreat virtuosity and the refinement of his amber colour scheme.\u201d\u00a0However, it adds that the work raises \u201cthe troubling question of voyeurism.\u201d<\/p>\n

In court on Thursday Facebook’s lawyers denied any censorship. The plaintiff\u00a0\u201chas not offered any proof of a link between the deactivation of the account and the publication of the work by Gustave Courbet,\u201d\u00a0Caroline Lyannaz said.<\/p>\n

The legal team did not explain why Durand\u2019s account was taken down, referring to it as only\u00a0“a simple contractual dispute.\u201d\u00a0She called the lawsuit unjustified and asked for Durand to be fined \u20ac1 as a symbolic penalty.<\/p>\n

But the teacher’s lawyer claimed that argument held no water.\u00a0\u201cThe deactivation of the account two and half years after it was opened, and just after \u2018L’Origine du Monde\u2019 was posted, cannot be a coincidence,\u201d\u00a0Cottineau said.<\/p>\n

The court is set to issue its ruling in March.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/417703-facebook-censor-vagina-masterpiece-court\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: All Facebook users having their account cancelled or suspended for posting arts depicting nudity should, like this man, prosecute Facebook. I would not hesitate one second to bring them to court. Censorship of art is a terrible attack on freedom of expression.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":327516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}