[KarlMalone]

100 People Will Pose Nude in NYC to Challenge Instagram and Facebook's Censorship

Artist Spencer Tunick has battled Facebook and Instagram over its stringent "community guidelines" banning nudity for half a decade. Tunick, who organizes and photographs large groups of nude people around the world, first had his Facebook page disabled in 2014 after posting a carefully pixelated image of 75 women in Portugal. Apparently the color gradiations in the nipples were too visible. Since then, it's been a push and pull of meticulously censoring his artwork in hopes the images won't be removed—or worse, his account deactivated.

But now, he's sending a powerful message directly to those social media platforms. On June 2, between 100 and 200 people will gather in New York City, posing naked to challenge Instagram and Facebook's nudity policies. Tunick and the National Coalition Against Censorship are organizing the project, called #WeTheNipple, with the goal of convincing the social platforms to allow artistic photographic nudity.