Posting This Album Cover Will Get You Thrown In Facebook Jail

Perhaps you've done a stint in the Facebook pokey, getting suspended for something you posted on your feed. It's happening a lot for music fans.

Loudersound has learned that many users on the social media site are having their content removed or outright banned for sharing pictures of certain album covers. Recently it's Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy.

The reason: the 1973 classic LP jacket, which features two naked children climbing the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, violates Facebook's "community standards," which prohibit "photographs of paintings, sculptures, and other art that depicts nude figures."

The artwork for Nirvana's Nevermind had also been deemed a problem back in 2011, but has been since restored.


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