Facetime...and More...at Facebook

Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:10PM EST

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Forget after Christmas sales. The place to be, at least if you're a breastfeeding mom, will be Facebook headquarters.

The social networking site has long banned photos of suckling babies if their milk supply is "fully exposed." New moms apparently are fed up, and plan to do a "nurse in" at the Palo Alto offices on Dec. 27—which is a Saturday, presumably when employees have the weekend off, if they're not already out for the holidays.

That's okay: The organizers of Mothers International Lactation Campaign (MILC) don't seem to be planning on a big turnout anyway ("at least 20," according to the Contra Costa Times). According to its petition (on Facebook, of course), the group has been growing since August 2007 and has just past 50,000 members. The real impact will be online, as MILC wants all of them to swap their profile photos to show them nursing in action.

So far, no comment from Facebook. The company probably has enough to deal with, like online jihadists, process servers, computer virus, an unauthorized biography, and a valuation drop despite big growth ... rather then worry about political protests involving mammary glands on its day off. As for local mothers tempted to join the censorship battle, forecast for Saturday so far: sunny. For potential oglers: Hey, eyes up and shame on you. That's someone's mum.

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