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Posted on 05/18/2012 4:09:45 PM PDT by Pinkbell
A Mid-South mother has been banned from Facebook for the photos she posted of her newborn son.
Grayson James Walker was born on February 15, 2012. He was born with Anencephaly, a rare neural tube birth defect in which a baby is born without parts of the brain and skull. Action News 5 shared the Walker's story about their sons eight hours of life shortly after he died.
Heather Walker recently posted pictures of Grayson without his hat on.
"Not long after, Facebook deleted them because of the content" she said. "They allow people to post almost nude pictures of themselves, profanity, and so many other things but I'm not allowed to share a picture of God's beautiful creation."
Walker and her Facebook friends decided to re-post baby Grayon's photos in protest, and the mother is now on a 24-hour ban from the social networking website.
According to Facebook's community standards page, there are nine types of content that may be deemed offensive and removed: •Violence and Threats •Self-Harm •Bullying and Harassment •Hate Speech •Graphic Violence •Nudity and Pornography •Identity and Privacy •Intellectual Property •Phishing and Spam
Walker says her photos of Grayson do not fall into any of those categories.
"I see all kinds of stuff, women's body parts, almost nudity, which is one of their standards, people cursing each other out, just profanity," said Walker.
Amazed at the amount of support she's received from all over the country, Walker says the photo is raising awareness.
"Just in two days, all these people have messaged me telling me how much God has used Grayson's life to touch them and to work in their hearts and to make them appreciate the children they have, that they have healthy children," she explained.
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I had a niece (my sisters daughter) die of SIDs at 3 months, then a nephew (sister-in-laws) at 8 weeks of the same thing.
I feel the same, they will always be family.
In all fairness, FB’s concern is likely that any pictures posted to their site can be copied and used for exploitative purposes. And there are plenty of sick people out there more than willing to do so.
Even Free Republic has to deal with the text version of a lot of that, and usually just cancel an article while saying, “No Thanks”. But photos can be far worse.
Though I haven’t seen any public mention of it, I imagine that FB is frequently sued by people over such things, pictures posted by users that inspire scoundrels to sue, and they just do not want to deal with it.
>>To her, there was peace in not having her son killed but allowing him to die a natural death.<<
It’s funny because there is no reason to kill one of these babies. They are perfectly happy living to term.
My sister felt that way and I feel she was correct.
Good.
Those pictures brought me to tears, but they were happy tears, because that sweet baby was loved so much. God bless him and his loving family.
I know.
So sad.
The dad looked as though he were trying to love the baby enough for a whole lifetime compressed into just a few hours.
FB is a liberal Petri dish. God bless little Grayson and his family!
GET OFF FACEBOOK!
Sheesh, it's not a constitutional right to post whatever you want on the silly thing. Send pictures to your friends -- life goes on, you know.
What's disgusting about it?
Sad fact of life.
What a precious little child. May God Bless him and his family. Love is beautiful, always.
The images are ugly, but there are far worse pictures on Facebook of drunken stunts, Halloween skits and fat people in overly-revealing clothing.
The picture was removed because it was a disgusting commentary on the baby.
The pictures were beautiful.
I seriously doubt that an anencephalic has the ability to feel anything. But, psychologically, it's far better for the mother not to cause her child's death and have that guilt hanging over her for the rest of her life.
<Those pictures brought me to tears, but they were happy tears, because that sweet baby was loved so much. God bless him and his loving family.
That’s exactly the way I felt. I am sorry for the baby’s birth defect and his short life, but he certainly seemed loved and wanted, and that made me smile.
Shame on FB!
Facebook. A company that just made it on the stock market.
I am waiting for the closing bell on Monday. If their stocks are $35.00 a share or LOWER I will bust a gut laughing.
Actually am not holding my breath for them to go up.
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