Norway Prime Minister joins ‘napalm girl’ protest against Facebook

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  The front cover of “Aftenposten”, Norway's largest circulated newspaper, is seen at a news stand in Oslo on Friday. The papre's editor-in-chief has written an open letter to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg accusing him of threatening the freedom of speech after deleting the iconic Vietnam war picture of a young girl running from napalm bombs.
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  In this June 8, 1972 file photo, crying children, including nine-year-old Kim Phuc, centre, run down Route 1 near Trang Bang, Vietnam after an aerial napalm attack.
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  AP

  In this June 8, 2015 photo, Ho Van Bon, 52, right, points at himself in the iconic 'Napalm girl' photo taken by the Pulitzer-winning photographer Nick Ut, left, in Trang Bang, Vietnam.

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Facebook deletes the iconic photo from a Norwegian author’s page triggering a heated debate about freedom of speech.

Norway’s Prime Minister has challenged Facebook’s restrictions on nude photos by posting the iconic 1972 image of a naked girl running from an aerial napalm attack in Vietnam.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning image by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut is at the centre of a heated debate about freedom of speech in Norway after Facebook deleted it from a Norwegian author’s page.

Many Norwegians have posted the photo on Facebook in protest, and Prime Minister Erna Solberg joined them on Friday.

Ms. Solberg said the photo has helped shape world history and that “Facebook gets it wrong when they censor such images”.

The little girl in the image, Kim Phuc, is naked and crying, her clothes and layers of skin melted away by napalm.

A Facebook spokesman for the Nordic region didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

Keywords: Napalm girl photo, Napalm girl protest, Facebook, Norway Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Kim Phuc, Nick Ut

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