Mums protest against Facebook:

Angry mums will protest at Facebook's Australian offices tomorrow after the social network suspended users who had posted images of themselves breastfeeding.

Sydneysider Lucy Allen, had her Facebook account deactivated for two days in July last year after she posted a photo of herself breastfeeding and pumping milk at the same time.

“Facebook didn’t actually give me a reason," Ms Allen told news.com.au. "They just said it was a breach of their terms of use."

Ms Allen said that she used the image to explain to women that breastfeeding and pumping at the same time helped milk production.

Facebook’s terms of use state that users are not allowed to post content that is hateful, pornographic, contains nudity or incites violence.

391 people have been recorded as having had breastfeeding photos removed by Facebook, according to website Tera.ca which was set up to collect all the images Facebook has taken down.

Facebook told news.com.au that breastfeeding photos were only ever removed after they had been brought to the social networking site’s attention by other users who report them as violations.

In an official statement, Facebook said photos that show a fully exposed breast where the child is not actively engaged in nursing do violate Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.

Appearing on Mornings today, Lucy Allen said she was ‘hurt’ when Facebook removed the image.

“To have Facebook tell me it was obscene was quite hurtful. They are telling women what they should and shouldn’t be doing with their bodies... that’s not okay.”

South Australia's Minister for the Status of Women Gail Gago says women should be able to post pictures of themselves breastfeeding their children on Facebook. 

Ms Gago says she will write to Facebook owner, Mark Zuckerberg, asking that a ban on photographs of breastfeeding be overturned in cases where women had uploaded their own pictures.

Tomorrow’s protest follows a more sustained pro-breastfeeding campaign around the world. A group of women held a ‘nurse in’ at Target stores in Chicago recently, protesting against restrictive corporate breastfeeding policy and ‘flash mob feeds’ in the UK where held for what they call, ongoing ‘lactivism’.

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