Why *should* Facebook act?
Facebook is neither a police force nor our moral guardian. There is no definition in the UK of what is and what is not an illegal image save that a judge or a jury consider it to be (a) a depiction of a child and (b) indecent in their opinion (there is no definitive definition of "indecent"). There does not need to be sexual activity nor nudity. While some images are very obviously indecent, how could we expect a Facebook moderator to know whether e.g. an image of a child in a bath, or kids running around at a naturist resort is or is not illegal? It need not be a photograph either. Pencil drawings, computer generated images and even cartoons are also included (and at least one person has been convicted of possessing an indecent cartoon of a child). Maybe the 2012 Olympic symbol is illegal because if you use your imagination it looks like Lisa Simpson engaged in an indecent act - should Facebook delete all such images just in case?
Suspected illegal images should be reported to the police, and IMO all we have any right to expect of Facebook is that they fully cooperate with any police investigation.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
