That's bizarre! Facebook takes down woman's post slamming online harasser citing 'nudity content'

In a bizarre move, Facebook has taken down the screenshot that Prerna Pratham Singh uploaded on her profile slamming an online troll who was harassing her, citing ‘Nudity Content.’ The innocuous image had no nudity, unless one counts the mere mention of a vagina by Singh as ’nudity’. The post also had a reference to the same word in Hindi by the harasser. On 17 May , Singh had uploaded a screenshot of her response to a Facebook message from a certain Raushan Kumar who asked her if she had a vagina where she publicly humiliated him, threatening legal action. [caption id=“attachment_2250592” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Image Courtesy: Facebook[/caption] The post went viral and got her tremendous support, Even Dr. Muktesh Chander, Special Commissioner Traffic Police Delhi  openly urged her to file an FIR against Kumar. Kumar later posted on his Facebook page that his account was hacked and asked people to ignore any messages from him. Now, in another Facebbok post on 18 May, Singh has said that her screenshot was taken down by the social networking site on the grounds of having ‘Nudity Content’ and that she was logged out of all her account sources. But she is unfazed. “I will post it again. And keep doing it as soon as I get network access. This is unacceptable,” she says in her post. Facebook’s crackdown on the post for seemingly offensive content will not make much of a difference as the screenshot has been uploaded several times on various social media websites, including Twitter. At the time of writing this, her post had more than 1500 likes in a span of five hours and numerous comments showing the said screenshot. Other users on the site have slammed Facebook for its regressive stance.  “Even though someone has reported it as spam for having ’nudity content’, the fact that Facebook agreed with this view and deleted this post sends out a huge message - that society will not tolerate report of sexual harassment. I’m really surprised that Facebook indeed conforms to this regressive attitude and in its own way, supports the offender by deleting,” wrote one user. Another user commented, “Facebook, you seriously disappointed me in this issue… you hold campaigns for women equality and empowerment and today when a girl raises her voice over harassment, you try to hide it away..” Twitter came out in full support of Singh, with many lauding her for raising her voice.

While the original content is still unavailable, it seems ridiculous that Facebook would take such a step. Shouldn’t the site be focusing on blocking accounts and offensive posts by online perverts such as Kumar rather than acting on Singh’s post reporting such behavior?