Other album covers that have faced Facebook censorship only to be un-banned include Nirvana’s Nevermind and Jane’s Addiction’s Nothing Shocking and Ritual de lo habitual. The Houses Of The Holy album cover was designed in 1973 by Hipgnosis’ Aubrey Powell and is a collage of images featuring child models Stefan and Samantha Gates. The company will also move forward with reviewing content that could potentially violate their standards on a case-by-case basis if it is deemed culturally significant, newsworthy, or important to public interest. Therefore, we’re restoring the posts we removed.” “But we know this a culturally significant image. “As our community standards explain, we don’t allow nude images of children on Facebook,” the site told Ultimate Classic Rock about the decision to reverse the ban. RELATED: Robbie Williams Allegedly ‘Blasting’ Black Sabbath To Annoy Neighbour Jimmy Page Of Led Zeppelin Now, Facebook is reversing the censorship and restoring the image across users’ posts on the site. Users who posted the image would find it removed or could be locked out of their account for three days. The site, which does not allow nude images of children, employs moderators and uses an algorithm to detect problematic images, including gruesome and illegal imagery. The lawsuit comes just a month shy of the landmark album’s 30th anniversary. After Facebook banned the cover of Led Zeppelin’s classic 1973 album Houses Of The Holy, the site is now reversing its decision.Įarlier this week it was reported that the album cover, which features nude children scaling Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway, was censored by the platform for violating the site’s community standards guidelines. Consequence.Net Spencer Elden, who was famously photographed as a baby for Nirvana’s iconic Nevermind album cover, is suing the band for child sexual exploitation.
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