Cancer mum has inspiring Facebook pictures BANNED because....

Mum-of-two Tracy Morris lodged a complaint with the site after it blocked the pictures so no one else could see them.Tracy, who had her left breast removed in 2011 and her right one removed last year, said: “I had a photoshoot done when I was first ­diagnosed because I wanted a lasting memory of how I had once looked.“After my second mastectomy I decided to have another shoot done because I still felt beautiful – in a different way.“Losing my second breast was traumatic. It made me realise how drastic cancer is.“I decided that I had to warn other women, to shock them into checking their breasts before it was too late.”She posted her photos on Facebook and received dozens of ­positive messages.One woman said they had spurred her into going for a ­mammogram. Another said she would see her doctor for tests.Tracy, 46, said: “So many women contacted me to say that my Facebook photos had influenced them in a way doctors’ leaflets never could.”But then Facebook sent her a message telling her it was investigating the photographs for violating its standards on nudity and pornography.Tracy said: “I was stunned. The photos are not of breasts – because I don’t have any. So they are ­actually no different to a photo of a man without his shirt on.”Tracy, from Wigan, who is married to Mike, 49, was diagnosed with cancer in March 2011. She had a left-side mastectomy and chemotherapy. She believed her cancer had gone.But last summer she found a lump in her right breast and had a second mastectomy. She is now having more chemotherapy.She said: “I am disgusted by Facebook. If one woman checks her breasts after seeing my photos they might save a life. How can that be offensive to anyone?”A Facebook spokesman said: “We have long allowed mastectomy photos to be shared on Facebook. We only review or remove photos after they have been reported. On occasion, we may remove a photo showing mastectomy scarring either by mistake or because a photo has violated our terms for other reasons.”Tracy tried to re-post the photos but had no success until the Sunday Mirror contacted the site to query their removal. The photos are now visible to everybody.So why are beheadings OK on social network site?Last year Facebook came under fire for allowing videos of beheadings to be posted on the site.But bosses defended the decision, saying decapitation could be shown if it was presented in a manner that condemned rather than celebrated the act.In 2011 Jewish WW2 survivors wrote to Facebook requesting they deny access to Holocaust deniers who were using it as a platform to promote anti-semitism.The site is also criticised over its slow reactions to misogyny and domestic violence.(mirror.co.uk)ANN.Az