Facebook vs. Breastfeeding moms: Fight!
Last Saturday, the group Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene! got over 11,000 people to participate in an online protest of Facebook’s decision to remove user-uploaded breastfeeding photos. Dubbed the first ever Mothers International Lactation Campaign (M.I.L.C., get it?), potesters posted a profile photo of themselves breastfeeding, along with supporting status messages. Offline, about 30 M.I.L.C members staged a "nurse-in" outside of Facebook’s Palo Alto headquarters, though it’s unclear how effective they really were at nursing while they were singing songs and waving signs about lactating.
So much for the saying "Save the drama for your mama." The group’s even stronger after one of its founders, Kelli Roman, got her Facebook account disabled on Christmas Eve.
