Facebook will soon be tried in France for censoring the painting "The Origin of the World"
This Thursday, February 1, 2018, Facebook will be tried in France for
abusive censorship. A few years ago, the social network of Mark
Zuckerberg had thought good to censure the painting "The Origin of the
world", painted in 1866 by Gustave Courbet. Excluded from the social
network, the user who posted this photo decided to drag Facebook to
justice. Remember: on February 27, 2011, a father posted on his Facebook
account a photograph of the famous painting by Gustave Courbet,
entitled "The Origin of the World". The work represents a naked female
sex, seen from the front. This shot did not please the very strict rules
of use of Facebook. The social network quickly decided to censor the
photo for "unacceptable nudity" and disable the user's account. He did
not hear it that way: on October 4, 2011, he decided to sue Facebook in
the name of freedom of expression on social networks.
Facebook has censored Gustave Courbet's "The origin of the world": the social network will be judged in France
Since then, the social network to 2 billion active users tried to escape the French justice by highlighting the address of its headquarters, located in California. Despite all his efforts, Facebook will finally be tried in France. Stéphane Cottineau, the user's lawyer dissatisfied, told AFP that this case will "require Facebook and all other foreign e-commerce companies that have this type of clause to change their contract." Gustave Courbet's painting, says the lawyer, is "a major work of the French cultural heritage".
As the lawyer pointed out, Facebook's bylaw explicitly prohibits representations "containing nudity" but according to him, the work of Courbet does not fit directly into this category. For the lawyer, "it is obviously a representation magnified, sublimated, by the talent of the artist." This is not the first time that Facebook is accused of mixing art and pornography. In October 2016, the social network censored breasts designed to prevent breast cancer. At the end of this case, the American giant could he relax its rules of use? Does Gustave Courbet's painting have its place on the social network? What do you think ?
Facebook has censored Gustave Courbet's "The origin of the world": the social network will be judged in France
Since then, the social network to 2 billion active users tried to escape the French justice by highlighting the address of its headquarters, located in California. Despite all his efforts, Facebook will finally be tried in France. Stéphane Cottineau, the user's lawyer dissatisfied, told AFP that this case will "require Facebook and all other foreign e-commerce companies that have this type of clause to change their contract." Gustave Courbet's painting, says the lawyer, is "a major work of the French cultural heritage".
As the lawyer pointed out, Facebook's bylaw explicitly prohibits representations "containing nudity" but according to him, the work of Courbet does not fit directly into this category. For the lawyer, "it is obviously a representation magnified, sublimated, by the talent of the artist." This is not the first time that Facebook is accused of mixing art and pornography. In October 2016, the social network censored breasts designed to prevent breast cancer. At the end of this case, the American giant could he relax its rules of use? Does Gustave Courbet's painting have its place on the social network? What do you think ?
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