February 13, 2009 7:01 PM PST

Woman, not breast-feeding, thrown off Facebook

by Chris Matyszczyk
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Toni Ainsworth is a 21-year-old model who opened a Facebook account.

Because she is a model, she has a lot of pictures of herself taken. Like a fine businesswoman, wishing to extend her brand far and wide, she uploaded them onto her Facebook account.

It is possible that she was not entirely clothed in all the shots. However, no doubt deeply wary of Facebook's Areola Police, who monitor breast-feeding pictures with the latest microscopes, she doctored the pictures on Photoshop. She says she covered all her potentially controversial parts with a barcode--which surely shows a rare artistic bent.

However, one of her 700 closest friends complained to Facebook. Suddenly, the clothes horse became a closed horse. Yes, Facebook barred the barcoded Toni.

No, this is not one of Toni's Photoshopped images. I just rather liked it.

(Credit: CC Riley Roxx)

She now fears she may lose lucrative modeling engagements. "It's made life very difficult as I have a lot of events coming up," she told the Sun newspaper.

Facebook, this is the woman who appears at half-time of the home games of the extremely low-class English soccer team called Accrington Stanley. She tries to entertain the fans by kicking the ball wearing highly ambitious six-inch heels.

Are the members of the Facebook Politburo all highly ambitious six-foot heels? Couldn't you just offer her a slap on the, um, wrist? Ask her to promise she won't do it again, whatever it is that you think she did.

I mean, these pictures were taken on a girls' weekend shopping trip in Manchester. Have you ever been to Manchester? Everyone dresses down a little there.

Come on, people, it's Valentine's Day. Show a little peace, love, and understanding.

Chris Matyszczyk is an award-winning creative director who advises major corporations on content creation and marketing. He brings an irreverent, sarcastic, and sometimes ironic voice to the tech world. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET.
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by Shagate February 14, 2009 10:22 AM PST
Wow... Must be a REALLY slow news day.
Since you're going to start taking on charity work for every unhappy internet user, maybe you should open charitycase.cnet.com?
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by myles taylor February 14, 2009 10:28 AM PST
It's Saturday...what do you expect? Earth-shattering product launches?
by Jack K1 February 14, 2009 10:44 AM PST
Funny how Facebook will bar babies on breasts but have no trouble accepting money for the recent flood of "get rich quick" frauds now flooding our pages. Maybe if we offered them money?
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by ProudToBe February 14, 2009 2:42 PM PST
AMEN.
The ad money is blinding them.
Facebook morality: Human body = dirty. Con artists with credit cards = godly.
by monkeychain1 February 14, 2009 12:09 PM PST
****** nazi's
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by lordmorgul February 14, 2009 12:20 PM PST
Facebook rapidly attempting to recreate MySpace. It has frankly been in decline since it opened to non-.edu email registrations...
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by Dylan_Wisor February 14, 2009 2:45 PM PST
In other news: I got a scam email earlier today.
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by lorincpartain February 14, 2009 9:23 PM PST
Nazi's ? Uh excuse me but since when is a website that is privately owned have any obligation to anyone other then its owners ? If you don't like Facebook's policy delete your account and go somewhere else. They have every right to determine how their site is to be used and by who for any reason since it belongs to them. If it were your property you would feel the same way. Oh and as a point of clarification, Nazi's are National Socialists who use the state power to control others. Any comparison is absurd.
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by AppleSuxLeo February 15, 2009 12:38 PM PST
Wanna see real boobies in public ? Go to Spring Break !
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