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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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Post by deftturtle »

GuiA wrote: post #14
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.

It’s a shame they don’t allow female nipples but allow male nipples. Clear cut sexism, and is there no way to sue them?

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

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Post by fortran77 »

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.

It would make sense to respond to a complaint for a direct message that contained these emojis.

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

#34

Post by geddy »

sschueller wrote: post #19

Why not also ban the gun emoji? Oh wait this is an American company where violence is OK but sex is taboo.

Yeah let's pretend guns don't exist. Knives exist too, those are weapons, better ban them. You could throw apples at someone for long enough and probably hurt them a good bit, better ban them too.

The sterilized world you want to live in is not necessarily the one that everyone else wants to live in.

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

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Post by kingnothing »

deftturtle wrote: post #31
GuiA wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It’s a shame they don’t allow female nipples but allow male nipples. Clear cut sexism, and is there no way to sue them?

You can sue anyone for any reason.

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

#37

Post by pushpop »

GuiA wrote: post #14
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.

You’re getting downvoted yet you’re making a very clear point of inequality.

Maybe this is where the American (Facebook) and European (myself) cultures differ but here it’s perfectly acceptable for women to be topless in much the same way as how it’s perfectly acceptable for a man to be topless.

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

#38

Post by monocasa »

Johnny555 wrote: post #20

How will they even police this? If I say "Hey come over for dinner tonight :eggplant:", is that sexual innuendo or am I making my famous eggplant parmigiana?

Capriciously and arbitrarily like all their other rules.

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

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Post by cududa »

GuiA wrote: post #14
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.

It’s extremely funny to me that the hacker news crows would downvote you so much for this very okay opinion
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