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Hashtags Instagram Won’t Let You Search
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#33This 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...
TIL the word "anilingus." Thanks!
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#34no emoji?
Right, I recall a story being run about the blocking of the Eggplant emoji as a search term on Instagram.
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#35#whitegirl? come on!
Could be because 'white girl' is also slang for cocaine.
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#36I understand censoring pointless things like "kansas" but "asiandick?" Seriously? They're going to penalize Human A&P students that need help just because the source material is Asian!? Or just the Art majors that could get by with a different theme?
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#37> #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 us…
> Which presumably show racism towards Italians, a hatred of the midwest, and a dislike of football?
If that was a consistent pattern, maybe, but I am yet to hear of it.
> Or maybe Instagram has an automated system which correlated hashtags with reported porn.
> I'm wary of waving the racism / sexism / whatism flag. We're not all racist. We're not all sexist.
Maybe it's automated, sure. Maybe it's not directly intended. Doesn't change the outcome.
Also, no, everyone is racist and sexist to varying extents, it's not a binary. Humans are imperfect.
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#38> #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.
I don't care for the cause, I care for the result. And I'm not so much claiming offence as I am pointing out that it's a troubling pattern.
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#39> #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).
Sure, I understand why this kind of thing tends to happen, but the result is no less insidious for it.
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#40> #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).
>so admins simply have to react
They should react in a fashion that does not involve blocking hashtags with multiple meanings.