In a move criticized by several, Facebook removed a photo of a breast cancer survivor's large chest tattoo, citing a violation of its rigid nudity plan, UPI stories. Nevertheless, the social networking website has since backtracked on its decision, allowing the picture to remain on the Custom Tattoo Design's Facebook page. In an e-mail to The Huffington Post, Fred Wolens of Facebook Policy Communications explained the move, creating "Mastectomy pictures don't violate our material requirements and are allowed on the site." The announcement comes after Lee Roller of the Ontario-based Custom Tattoo Design -- the photo's original poster -- reposted the impressive image and asked different people to share with you the photograph. Post-mastectomy tattoos by Tina Bafaro. In the latest reposting of the cancer survivor's tattoo image, Roller explained: By Wednesday morning, the image had been already provided significantly more than 138,000 times. This is not the very first time the picture has been distributed on the social network site. The tattoo style was also placed by Middle Aged Woman Talking in October and the Tennessee Breast Cancer Coalition in January. Neither of these articles has been removed by Facebook. The image of Inga Duncan Thornell, a mastectomy was undergone by a breast cancer survivor, was borrowed from the book Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo. Previously, Facebook has quickly eliminated pictures reported to be in violation of its community standards. In February, four nursing pictures were taken from the "Respect the Breast" community page. Recently, in November, Facebook also censored a photograph of a knee that resembled a woman's breast within 24-hours of its publishing. Facebook's neighborhood standards ruling nudity and pornography are as follows: Photo of Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo: Also on HuffPost:
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