well, I doubt there is a culture where there is no distinction between a part and the whole.
What "partial nudity" means is very arguable and _has been_ argued (e.g. many stories of services not allowing breast feeding pictures), I was just pointing out the specific differentiation between full and partial seems simple.
About children: of course I don't see anything bad with pictures of naked kids, but the service has very little chances of knowing whether those pictures of 7 years olds are your nieces' or you're in a shady business, and they are reasonable to protect themselves.
We live in a fucked up society.
Obviously, there are huge gaps between stating rules, actually enforcing them, and enforcing them in a dumb way.
I think there is a huge gap between private and shared pics; if you share you should take all kinds of cultural stuff + site rules into account, but hosting them in private folders?
If I like to take naked pictures of myself and put them in a PRIVATE, never shared folder, I really find it a huge error of MS to close down accounts for that reason. And it'll bite them if they keep doing it.
of course there is difference, but the rules are in place because if it turns out that someone on $SERVICE is are sharing login information with a network of people doing $BAD_THING you want to be able to say "he did that against our policy" not "well, we thought it was private".
Agreed ofcourse. However MS seems to enforce them lacking this; stuff is in private folders and no bad things are done. Of course you want to enforce rules; we run a big photo site ourselves and we know how that works, but we wouldn't ban people for pics in private albums. Nor do we (ever) check them.
But yes, if there is something wrong you want to have the RIGHT to remove + ban for any reason you see fit. MS is a company, they have no obligation to host your crap. Well, if you don't pay. If you do I think it's even muddier water IMHO.
What "partial nudity" means is very arguable and _has been_ argued (e.g. many stories of services not allowing breast feeding pictures), I was just pointing out the specific differentiation between full and partial seems simple.
About children: of course I don't see anything bad with pictures of naked kids, but the service has very little chances of knowing whether those pictures of 7 years olds are your nieces' or you're in a shady business, and they are reasonable to protect themselves. We live in a fucked up society.
Obviously, there are huge gaps between stating rules, actually enforcing them, and enforcing them in a dumb way.