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‘Sexual’ use of eggplant and peach emojis banned on Facebook, Instagram

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Re: ‘Sexual’ use of eggplant and peach emojis banned on Facebook, Instagram

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warent wrote: post #6

I'm not really sure what group they're catering to here. Everyone who is at least 12 years old knows what those emoji mean. My guess is they must be doing this in order to help protect women from sexual harassment. What they're really doing here is trying to ban an entire way of thinking. That's just not going to happen.

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Re: ‘Sexual’ use of eggplant and peach emojis banned on Facebook, Instagram

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Post by GuiA »

Cenk wrote: post #8

> The Facebook Community Standards language is quite broad, not naming the emojis specifically but referring to “[commonly used] sexual emojis or emoji strings” as criteria which qualify as “Suggestive Elements.” > “[Content] will only be removed from Facebook and Instagram if it contains a sexual emoji alongside an implicit or indirect ask for nude imagery, sex or sexual partners, or sex chat conversations” > “We ar…

Thank god nude photos where male nipples cover female nipples are still fine.

Re: ‘Sexual’ use of eggplant and peach emojis banned on Facebook, Instagram

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warent wrote: post #6

I'm not really sure what group they're catering to here. Everyone who is at least 12 years old knows what those emoji mean. My guess is they must be doing this in order to help protect women from sexual harassment. What they're really doing here is trying to ban an entire way of thinking. That's just not going to happen.

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Re: ‘Sexual’ use of eggplant and peach emojis banned on Facebook, Instagram

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Post by chmod775 »

warent wrote: post #6

I'm not really sure what group they're catering to here. Everyone who is at least 12 years old knows what those emoji mean. My guess is they must be doing this in order to help protect women from sexual harassment. What they're really doing here is trying to ban an entire way of thinking. That's just not going to happen.

> I'm not really sure what group they're catering to here.

My best bet is a certain generation of people in the US who grew up shielded and learning to react with outrage and emotional breakdowns to absolutely anything outside their narrow comfort zone.

Not even their children, who grew up with access to the internet and thus unfiltered humanity, can take them serious on these issues.

But I guess it makes someone happy and it's too late to change some people anyways. This restriction doesn't really impair anyone fundamental rights and it's a minor annoyance at worst. What gives?

> My guess is they must be doing this in order to help protect women from sexual harassment.

This is a possibility. Somehow I doubt this will make any difference though. You don't stop creeps by taking away a random thing when there's millions of other ways.

Re: ‘Sexual’ use of eggplant and peach emojis banned on Facebook, Instagram

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Post by mrfredward »

If Facebook really wanted to stop this they could make the eggplant less phallic looking or remove it entirely. Almost no one is going on Facebook to actually talk about eggplant.

They don't want users to have the same plausible deniability when sharing a cartoon wiener that they had when adding a cartoon wiener as an option. And honestly, it is probably for the better that sexual harassment via eggplant is now explicitly called out in the TOS.

I don't expect much enforcement of this.

Edit: Wow, the eggplant lobby found my post. To be clear, I'm not against the eggplant emoji, or its sexual connotations, but I am convinced that it gets used exactly the way its designers expected it to be used.

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