Thursday, 17 July 2014

INNOCENCE OR NUDITY?

Little Marlow Adamo is blissfully unaware that she is the owner of — in her mother’s words — ‘the most infamous belly button on the
worldwide web’.
Toddling around in a little pair of yellow wellies, the 19-month-old thinks nothing of pulling up her white cotton top to show it off in that joyful, unselfconscious way that young children do.
‘Belly,’ she says, pointing to it very proudly.
It was this charming picture of innocence that Marlow’s mother Courtney, 33, captured on her camera phone last month in the garden of their North London home — and immediately posted on the popular social media site Instagram. 

In doing so, Courtney had absolutely no idea of the storm of controversy that she was about to unleash.
First, Instagram deleted the ‘inappropriate’ photo for violating its rules on nudity. Then, when Courtney re-posted the picture — thinking they must have made a mistake — her account was de-activated.

To her the image was something lovely and precious, but to whoever reported it to Instagram — apparently in the name of child protection — it was seen as potential bait for paedophiles.‘What kind of world do we now live in,’ asks Courtney in her exclusive interview, ‘that a beautiful picture of an innocent little girl could be seen as anything other than that?

SOURCE: Dailymail.co.uk.

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