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Hashtags Instagram Won’t Let You Search

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Re: Hashtags Instagram Won’t Let You Search

#21

> #bi > #gays > #lesbian Yet another example of mentions of queer identities being filed as pornography.

Like:

#italiano #kansas #kickoff

Which presumably show racism towards Italians, a hatred of the midwest, and a dislike of football?

Or maybe Instagram has an automated system which correlated hashtags with reported porn. Tags with greater than X% reported porn get banned.

If that's true (and we have no reason to think it is or isn't true), then the banned tags come out simply because the #bi, etc. people happen to use those tags more for porn than (presumably) #straight people.

I'm wary of waving the racism / sexism / whatism flag. We're not all racist. We're not all sexist.

Re: Hashtags Instagram Won’t Let You Search

#23

> #bi > #gays > #lesbian Yet another example of mentions of queer identities being filed as pornography.

Probably because people were using them to post/promote their pornography using terms they know people would search. Please find something more interesting to feign offense over.

Re: Hashtags Instagram Won’t Let You Search

#27

> #bi > #gays > #lesbian Yet another example of mentions of queer identities being filed as pornography.

Open any porn site and I'm sure you will find these tags as top categories. It's not Twitter deciding it's pornographic or not, but users that use them as such, so admins simply have to react (unless you want Twitter to be overflown with gay/lesbian/bi porn).

Re: Hashtags Instagram Won’t Let You Search

#30

This reminds me of Shutterstock's open-source List of Dirty Naughty Obscene and Otherwise Bad Words: https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscen...

黒人 (black person) is on the Japanese list. I wasn't aware that that was a naughty word.

I removed it: https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscen...
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