(Credit: Mick Stevens/The New Yorker. With permission.)
Yesterday, some were terribly excited that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was finally addressing the needs of the peculiar protuberances on Wall Street.
And yet his company still seems to struggle with its attitude to peculiar protuberances that are closer to our hearts.
For Facebook's long-standing objection to nipples has claimed another victim: The New Yorker.
Yes, that familiar peddler of pornographic piffle has had been tweaked by Facebook over a rancid display of nippledom. In a cartoon. In a cartoon depicting Adam and Eve.
As they say in Cockney rhyming slang: Would you Adam-and-Eve it?
The New Yorker itself is bemused by this oddity.
"What we don't like is that we got temporarily banned from Facebook for violating their community standards on 'Nudity and Sex,'" the magazine wrote Monday.
Not even the smokiest pervert could have found an offensively sexual connotation in this cartoon. It depicted Adam and Eve, beneath an apple tree, with the caption: "Well, it was original."
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