READERS DISCUSS: Banning the "boob" on social media
MOST Sunshine Coast Daily readers say there's nothing wrong with photographing breastfeeding and posting images on social media.
Almost 80% of respondents to our online poll agreed breastfeeding was beautiful and there was nothing offensive about a breastfeeding photo.
5% of respondents said there was no need to photograph breastfeeding.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: INSTAGRAM ADMITS COAST BREASTFEEDING PHOTOS FAR FROM OFFENSIVE
The results come after a Sunshine Coast photographer was banned from Instagram for posting images of breastfeeding mothers and child birth images.
Melissa Jean Wilbraham, Sunshine Coast Private Hospital's official baby photographer, said her "beautiful and heart-warming" images were reported as "offensive" by some Instagram users.
But 4000 people came to her defence and fought to get her account back online.
She said "mothers were a force to be reckoned with" and that was shown when her account was re-instated.
We posted our story on our Facebook page and our readers had mixed views on whether breastfeeding photos belonged on Facebook. Here's a snapshot of your conversation:
Instagram was forced to apologise to a Sunshine Coast photographer who was banned for posting images of child birth and...
Posted by Sunshine Coast Daily on Wednesday, 5 August 2015
Marie Dyer: People get away with posting graphic child abuse pics, dead animals and an Instagram gets shut down for natural beauty. Ummm okay and for the haters, why would you be stalking a page like this anyway ?
Meredith Ploughman: No it's a very private thing why on earth would you want to put it all over the Internet for everyone to see is absolutely beyond comprehension just saying..
Mikki Jade: It's a beautiful and natural thing. But i don't think photos are necessary. Or don't need to be shared on social media. I'm not saying they shouldn't be. Just don' need to be. I personally don't wish to see a almost naked breast or see the need to see a baby drinking milk. I'd prefer it to be covered but its people own choice.
Linda Johnson: Why not? They share photos of people doing actual crimes/inappropriate things online and This is photographs of life!! Shame on the people who can't look away when they see something they don't like.
Georgina Douglas: If you don't like it, don't look. It's your choice.
Lani Zanatta: Yes, breastfeeding needs to be desexualised and know the truth of childbirth.
Tammy Chisholm-Hall: There is a time and a place for everything, I wouldn't want my private moments on the internet but that's me. I really don't mind what everyone else does.
