Apparently boobs are only allowed to hold office in Washington D.C.

Via email from Facebook:

You uploaded a video that was reported for violating Facebook’s Terms of Use. After reviewing the video, we have decided to remove it. Facebook removes reported videos that are hateful, threatening, graphic, or that attack an individual or group.

More, from Facebook’s video FAQs:

Facebook does not allow users to upload videos that contain copyrighted content, nudity, drug use, or other obscene content.

After much head-scratching, I deduced that the 1.4-second clip (captured in the screen shot above) was the offending nanoseconds’ worth of video.

Someone reportedly found it “offensive” that we had video of native tribal women in their traditional Akha dress in our trailer on Facebook. Seriously? You are offended that there is a culture that dresses differently? Or is it that the female body that sacrosanct still?

Super Bowl XXXVIII, which was broadcast live on February 1, 2004 from Houston, Texas on the CBS television network in the United States, was noted for a controversial halftime show in which Janet Jackson’s breast, which had the nipple completely covered by silver tape, was exposed by Justin Timberlake for exactly 9/16 of a second,

I never heard this part of the story, did you?:

Following the incident, the NFL announced that MTV, which also produced the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXV, would never be involved in another halftime show.

Banned? For life!?!

I mention this saga not because it has much in common with our story, but only because it is one of the greater “non-troversies”  in recent years. Yet the hammer came down with over $500,000 in fines of breathless severity.  Or was it with great vengeance and furious anger?

For many decades now, we have had the luxury of photography at our disposal. It is a tremendous tool that allows journalists to share “a thousand words” with a single image.

For many years, the wonderful and respected magazine National Geographic has brought the world closer via images that sometime show the people in tribal areas. They have never blurred their work so as to not offend.

To explain the tribal fashion of the areas we visit on “The Laughing Planet” would not only fall well short, but would leave the viewer wanting. There is an old adage I love:

Tell me and I’ll forget.

Show me and I may remember.

Involve me and I’ll understand.

We at “The Laughing Planet” seek to involve our audience. At very least, we will show them the world they didn’t otherwise understand.

The people who reported this, as well as the management at Facebook who caved in  pandered acquiesced to the moralist who reported our video as offensive, should be ashamed not of the exposure of a native tribe’s clothing, but of themselves.