I believe it's 14 now iirc(i don't use so I might not) . Started out as needed a .edu email but Im pretty sure it's advertised to high school kids now too
So I'm an American but to be fair I'd like to think I'm one of your acceptions. Personally I agree with you, the female body as a whole is overly sexualized and part of that is making nipples taboo, but Facebook isn't restricting your ability to show your friends pictures of your nipples, or going to a nude beach. To me, their privacy policy is an expression of their own opinion/ideals (or more likely the opinion advertising firms have decided will make them the most money). And while both I have the right to think nipples are nbd and they have the right to say nipples aren't a big deal, I think telling Facebook they must have pictures of nipples on their servers infringes on Facebooks right to freak out about nipples just as Facebook preventing you from making a nipple collage and showing it to all your friends would restict your rights to think nipples are no big deal. It's all good to say anybody should have the right to express whatever they want, but part of that right is to not express things you don't want to.
Step 1) become facebooks majority shareholder. Step 2) do whatever you want with their censorship policy. Publicly traded companies are still private in the sense of ownership, their publicly traded because anyone can buy that private ownership, but until you do (and a lot of it) Facebook doesn't have any obligation to put what you want or don't want on their site. I still agree that their censorship policy is ridiculous, but they get to decide what kind of forum they are. I suggest you find a better forum cause imho fb just sucks in general
Sure but Facebook isn't preventing the media from showing this, sure if Facebook was our only forum for journalism censorship of things like this would be atrocious. But I don't think facebooks argument is this shouldn't exist but that Facebook isn't a news station and isn't the right forum to share those kind of things. One easy reason is news stations warn about graphic content and are usually watched by adults whereas any 10 year old with an internet access can find it on this guy's Facebook page. I think this article, and the outrage in general, treats Facebook as too powerful of a social institution. It undeniably is but I feel it's influence is overstated, and that Facebook trying to maintain itself as a forum for socializing is fine, it owns the website it can decide what to put on it. If the thing you need to say is so important there are many other forums to express that idea, even within the internet. That said I think if this truly is Facebook is trying to make a policy that truly promotes what their trying to do it should be stricter. Videos of beheadings belong on deeper webs imho.