These Ni**les Got The New Yorker Banned From Facebook

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When Justin Timberlake ripped off part of Janet Jackson's top at the end of the halftime show at Super Bowl XXXVIII, thus exposing her nipple, old ladies fainted, and the FCC smote CBS for its moral failure. But there's a new Nipplegate in town, and this time the transgressor is the smut rag known as the New Yorker, whose Facebook page was briefly banned when a cartoon showed a teeny tiny profane pair of uncensored nipples. In this case the nipples were actually just black dots. And those little pencil marks violated Facebook's "nudity and sex" community standards. Four nipples were actually pictured in the offending cartoon, but only two of the nipples in question made Facebook blush, because according to its policies, it does not allow "naked 'private parts (haha, private parts) including female nipple bulges and naked butt cracks [but] male nipples are ok." In a blog post, the New Yorker pointed out the important distinction:

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