(CNN)Madonna has deed retired astatine Instagram for removing photos from her leafage due to the fact that portion of her nipple was showing.
In a post connected her verified relationship Thursday, the 63-year-old superstar said she'd decided to republish the images aft the societal networking tract removed them for breaching big nudity rules.
The photos, which amusement the vocalist successful a assortment of poses wearing fishnet stockings successful a bedroom, were republished with emojis covering her nipples.
A spokesperson for Meta, Instagram's genitor company, told CNN successful a connection that photos which breach its rules are removed "whenever we find it, nary substance who posts it."
Madonna said successful a station to her 17 cardinal followers: "I'm reposting photographs Instagram took down without informing oregon notification.
"The crushed they gave my absorption that does not grip my relationship was that a tiny information of my nipple was exposed.
"It is inactive astounding to maine that we unrecorded successful a civilization that allows each inch of a woman's assemblage to beryllium shown but a nipple.
"As if that is the lone portion of a woman's anatomy that could beryllium sexualized. The nipple that nourishes the baby!"
She besides compared the antithetic rules that mightiness beryllium successful spot for men and women. "Can't a mans (sic) nipple beryllium experienced arsenic erotic?," she wrote successful the post, which has received much than 780,000 likes.
Many radical congratulated the talker for the post, sending clapping emojis and comments of enactment successful response, portion others disagreed with the sentiment of the post.
She added: "Giving acknowledgment that I person managed to support my sanity done 4 decades of censorship...... sexism......ageism and misogyny."
A spokesperson for Meta told CNN successful a statement: "We instrumentality down contented that breaks our rules whenever we find it, nary substance who posts it.
"While we recognize not everyone volition ever hold with wherever we gully the line, our rules are designed to assistance support everyone of each ages harmless connected our apps, portion giving abstraction for arsenic overmuch look arsenic possible."
According to its publicly disposable rules, the societal media institution restricts the "display of nudity oregon intersexual enactment due to the fact that immoderate people... whitethorn beryllium delicate to this benignant of content."
However, it claims its exertion of rules has go much "nuanced" successful caller years to let posts depicting nipples wherever a pistillate is breastfeeding, showing a mastectomy scar oregon engaging successful an enactment of protest.
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