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  • NewsYahoo Life UK

    Students barred from college graduation because of exposed ankles: ‘You are showing too much flesh’

    "Today I was refused entry to my graduation ceremony because I was showing too much flesh."

  • NewsMarie-Claire Dorking

    Facebook Forced To Apologise For Rejecting Ad Featuring Plus Size Model Tess Holliday

    The advert, to promote an event called ‘Feminism and Fat’, featured a picture of the model in a bikini but was banned by the social media site because it “depicts a body or body parts in an undesirable manner”. “The image depicts a body or body parts in an undesirable manner,” a message from the Facebook Ads team read.

  • NewsBen Arnold

    Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist Banned In France SEVEN Years After Release

    ‘Antichrist’, the controversial 2009 movie by Lars Von Trier, has been banned in France. A French court has passed down the ruling that the movie, which was previously given a '16’ rating, should be reclassified following pressure on the classification board from Promouvoir, a Catholic traditionalist group. It said that the previous classification was 'a mistake’, and that it should only be seen by over-18s.

  • NewsBen Falk

    6 Shocking Movies That Are Still BANNED In The UK

    Er, yes according to the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) – as long as you’re prepared to tackle some taboo subject matter and go to some very dark places. James Bulger’s death sent shockwaves through British society in 1993, when two young boys murdered the two-year-old after abducting him from a shopping centre. Banned in the wake of the Bulger fallout, it has never been repealed.

  • NewsZoe Dubs

    Controversial! The Banned Perfume Adverts They Didn’t Want You To See

    Yves Saint Laurent Opium Created over 15 years ago and shot by the legendary Steven Meisel, it features the then red-headed Dahl in a striking, but suggestive looking position.  After hundreds of complaints, the Opium ad was banned from billboards, but was still allowed to be shown in magazines. It was also approved when the image was rotated 90 degrees, so that the pose was less suggestive (but still naked).  This was shot when Tom Ford was at YSl, so we’re not that surprised, given that Tom F