The French law is aimed to prevent people from encouraging anorexics to lose even more weight (effectively starting themselves to death), the equivalent for us would be someone encouraging a compulsive overeater to eat even more.

I wouldn't expect any of the good people on this site to do anything like that, and if we found it going on they'd soon get booted by the mods. However, I'm sre the British government will be watching with interest to see how the French law works out. Our recent anti-smoking laws followed on from similar laws first introduced in France. It would be a natural follow-on to consider extending it to cover extreme feederism at the same time.

This would lead to pressure to close sites like this down, or at the very least we'd all have to watch our backs to make sure that our feederism, 'encouraging others to gain weight', would not lead to prosecution.

My worry is that instead of the law being applied to protect vulnerable people with eating disorders, it would be used by narrow-minded biggots to discriminate and persecute people like us because we don't fit into the accepted norm.

The French are trying to introduce a new law to ban pro-anorexia websites, how long before people turn their attension the other way and try to ban fat acceptance and feeder sites?

Full credit to Facebook for not succuming to pressure so far. A spokesperson said the site supported the free flow of information.

"Many Facebook groups relate to controversial topics; this alone is not a reason to disable a group."

I don't support anorexia, I love BBW, but this is about freedom of speech and expression.