According to a report from Indybay, a woman was not allowed to portray her self breastfeeding her children on the popular social networking site.

According Patricia Madden one of the individuals who's photo was removed:

"It's amazing to me that we're living in a world where people are

upset by this,'' she said. "You can't see my nipples. It's completely legal to breast-feed in public. Breast-feeding is completely natural and healthy. They took off the photo, without my permission.''

There was a protest against Facebook at their headquarters regarding the removal of the pictures on December 27th in Palo Alto. Facebook as well as many social networking sites have made it clear that breastfeeding is a dirty act!

Read the Report here: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/12/27/18556590.php

anyone concerned with issues like these regarding social networking sites should consider joining we.riseup.net

The committie to protect journalists is reporting today that for the first time ever the number of imprisoned online journalists has surpassed the number of print, radio, TV and film reporters combined.  As of December 1st 2008 the number of journalists imprisoned worldwide totals 125, with at least 56 of them being online journalists, meaning either bloggers or online editors and writers.
The country jailing the most journalists and the most bloggers is, of course, China.  China has jailed over 28 journalists of whom, 24 worked online.  In total %45 of all jailed journalists are online journalists.  From the story "The image of the solitary blogger working at home in pajamas may be appealing, but when the knock comes on the door they are alone and vulnerable."  The U.S. currently has one journalist in jail in Iraq.

This report only covers journalists that are currently held, so it does not have totals for the whole year, unfortunately.  It does not include for example, Josh Wolf, who was jailed for not turning over sources to federal investigators. Or Judith Miller, the reporter behind the infamous Valerie Plame case.  You can read the whole article here.
 

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