Art Show Gains Attention From Facebook Censorship

For hot New York art curator Savannah Spirit, it was just a matter of course that she'd share images from her latest show, Hotter Than July: A Sexploration, with her 2,000-plus friends on the social network. The folks over at Facebook didn't bother to reserve judgment on the show, and instead pulled her account without warning on the day it opened.

For hot New York art curator Savannah Spirit, it was just a matter of course that she’d share images from her latest show, Hotter Than July: A Sexploration, with her 2,000-plus friends on the social network. Alas, Facebook pulled her account without warning on the opening day of the exhibit.

Spirit (pictured) didn’t notice until the day after, when she logged into her account to see what kind of comments the works and the show generated – and she found herself a part of a social network that is growing larger all the time – artists and others who have been censored by Facebook.

But

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