Instagram echoes Facebook by clarifying community guidelines: Breastfeeding okay, bare buttocks not okay
Instagram has clarified its community standards to reflect specifically what it considers nudity and what it doesn't.
Many social media outlets, including Instagram owner Facebook, have made similar moves in recent months in order to differentiate between different forms of nudity
Pictures of breastfeeding mothers, it seems, are allowed on the social while more sexually explicit content is banned.
“This includes photos, videos, and some digitally-created content that show sexual intercourse, genitals, and close-ups of fully-nude buttocks,” read Instagram’s new guidelines. “It also includes some photos of female nipples, but photos of post-mastectomy scarring and women actively breastfeeding are allowed. Nudity in photos of paintings and sculptures is okay too.”
The clarification comes several weeks after Instagram received criticism for removing a picture of a woman whose pants featured a splatter of blood.
The picture-sharing site also stressed that its users only post content that they legally own.
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