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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 wishinghand »

abstractbarista wrote: post #47
wishinghand wrote: post #10

Does this apply to private chats? Because I'll send these in a joking way to my girlfriend and some of my other friends. I know that Facebook messenger parses chats and won't allow porn site links and torrent magnet links to go through.

Woah wait, they're blocking magnet links too?? That's horrible. It's already disgusting that they block porn links. Why are they censoring private speech between friends?

I haven't torrented in a while but I shared a non-piracy one for downloading creative commons game assets with someone about 5 years ago and it just wouldn't go through. I forget the automated message Messenger would give me but it was basically "We think this is illegal file sharing".

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

nickthegreek wrote: post #72
notacoward wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's even worse when you consider how it's based in binary gender thinking. Are a transgender person's nipples allowed, or not? It ends up being such a mess. A gender-neutral standard would be better.

I have a friend who is transitioning f2m and recently had top surgery. They were extremely excited that being topless was no longer a crime. It helped put some things into perspective for me.

Not a crime in NY.

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

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Post by layoutIfNeeded »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #62
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.

Apple unilaterally decided that the pistol emoji actually refers to a water pistol. Most other vendors followed suit a year or two later. IMO this was an incredibly stupid thing to do. Someone on iOS could text their classmate something innocuous like "Can't wait for the school's field trip to the water park tomorrow! ". If the recipient was also on iOS, they'd see a squirt gun. If the classmate was on Android, they'…

Some are supported → ← ↔ ™ № others are not. Emojis aren’t.

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Post by mattmillr »

ryanmercer wrote: post #61
deftturtle wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

They do allow female nipples, if breastfeeding. I've seen numerous breastfeeding videos/photos get shared with nipple exposed or one of the two breasts completely exposed and report them just to see what will happen, they are always allowed to remain stating it does not violate the community standards. Similarly they seem to allow people to post comments like "why don't you use your guns to kill yourself" and "I hope…

> report them just to see what will happen

You realize that if the post is removed, that "seeing what will happen" has a real consequence for the poster, right? If feel like that's even worse than reporting it because you actually believe it's objectionable.

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Post by pushpop »

lostapathy wrote: post #71
pushpop wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apples aren’t specifically designed to kill people. You don’t have mass school shootings where dozens of kids are attacked by apples and suicides caused by apples are significantly fewer than those by guns. The two aren’t even remotely equatable.

Lots of guns aren’t designed to kill people either.

Indeed. But nobody is advocating a ban of water pistols, potato guns or other toys. Just the stuff that are actually lethal weapons.

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Post by warent »

fortran77 wrote: post #33
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.

For starters, the issue isn't remotely as rampant for men as it is for women who routinely (i.e. multiple times a day) receive unsolicited sexual advances offline and online in the form of dick pics. It's also much easier for a man to physically take advantage of a woman than vice versa, so women would naturally feel much more threatened by this behavior. Men's inboxes just aren't constantly getting filled with unsolicited nudes, and those that are received rarely cause men to feel concerned that it could lead to real aggravated sexual assault.

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Post by Konnstann »

corrys wrote: post #63
geddy wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Same old argument. Why isn't everything legal then? Why not make all explosives legal? Nuclear weapons?

Nukes are legal as long as you have enough of them. Isn't that how the game is played?

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Post by brandonmenc »

Lammy wrote: post #27
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.

Already (kinda?) happened. A few years ago FB and Apple and Google and all the other major platform companies “nerfed” the gun emoji by reworking its appearance from a drawing of a realistic gun into a drawing of a water gun.

Yet they still sell games where you shoot people and movies depicting horrific graphic violence.

Murder simulators? Yay! Violence on film? Wow, awesome! A drawing of a gun? WOAH HOLD ON WAIT A MINUTE

Makes nothing but sense.

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