One of the problems Facebook is facing these days is the protest against its officials decision to remove all the photos of lactating breasts from the popular social networking Web site.

Stating that its violates the Web site’s policy, Facebook removed all such photos from its users’ pages, a move that was also supported by MySpace.

The protest will be held at the companys headquarters in Palo Alto and also online, with women invited to change their profile photos with themselves nursing. The group Mothers International Lactation Campaign organized the protest, as its members believe that there is nothing obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit in a photo of a mother feeding her baby.

"What about a baby breast-feeding is obscene? Especially in comparison to MANY other pictures posted all over Facebook that really are obscene?'' asked the event organizers using their Web site, called "Hey Facebook, breast-feeding is not obscene!''

Facebook’s spokesman Barry Schnitt explained that the company had to decide on a determining factor for these photos and the standard chosen was a visible areola - which they believe is fairly appropriate. He also added "We agree that breast-feeding is natural and beautiful and we're very glad to know that it is so important to some mothers to share this experience with others on Facebook.''

The matter is widely debated at this point, with mothers claiming that public breast-feeding is legal and this should be enough to over-rule any arguments brought by Facebook, while the company says that all its users must be considered and this is why the standard is necessary.