Facebook Repeatedly Censors Viral Father/Son Photo
This image should not be banned. The obvious if discrete nudity is wonderful in context of the circumstances. If this were my image I’d be furious at any inference of sexuality or prurient motive.
A photo of a father cradling his sick son in the shower has taken the Internet by storm despite, or perhaps because of, repeated takedowns by social media giant Facebook.
The image was captured by photographer Heather Whitten back in November of 2014, and shows her husband cradling their then-one-year-old son Fox who was suffering from salmonella poisoning at the time.
“Thomas had spent hours in the shower with him, trying to keep his fever down and letting the vomit and diarrhea rinse off of them both as it came,” she wrote in a Facebook post that has, yet again, been taken down. “As I sat in the shower with the two of them I was just overwhelmed with the scene in front of me. I stepped out and grabbed my camera and came back to snap a few images of it and, of course shared them.”
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