Norway’s Prime Minister has challenged Facebook’s restrictions on nude
photos by posting the iconic 1972 image of a naked girl running from an
aerial napalm attack in Vietnam.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning image by Associated Press photographer Nick
Ut is at the centre of a heated debate about freedom of speech in Norway
after Facebook deleted it from a Norwegian author’s page.
Many Norwegians have posted the photo on Facebook in protest, and Prime Minister Erna Solberg joined them on Friday.
Ms. Solberg said the photo has helped shape world history and that “Facebook gets it wrong when they censor such images”.
The little girl in the image, Kim Phuc, is naked and crying, her clothes and layers of skin melted away by napalm.
In this June 8, 2015 photo, Ho Van Bon, 52, right, points at himself in the iconic 'Napalm girl' photo taken by the Pulitzer-winning photographer Nick Ut, left, in Trang Bang, Vietnam.
The front cover of “Aftenposten”, Norway's largest circulated newspaper,
is seen at a news stand in Oslo on Friday Sep 09,2016. The papre's editor-in-chief
has written an open letter to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg accusing
him of threatening the freedom of speech after deleting the iconic
Vietnam war picture of a young girl running from napalm bombs.
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