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- Facebook has been ridiculed for censoring nude paintings by the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens.
- A group of Flemish museums penned a playful letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking to discuss the matter.
- The Flemish tourist board also made a video poking fun at Facebook, showing social media agents preventing art gallery goers from looking at nude paintings.
For hundreds of years, Flemish master painter Peter Paul Rubens has been famous for his “fleshy” nude paintings. But now they have been censored on Facebook.
The Flemish tourist office has written a tongue-in-cheek open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, signed by most museums in the Belgian region of Flanders.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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