> #italiano Really?
I had figured that was a reference to the bizarre "Dilbert 2" video on youtube that instagram deemed abusable.
Watch the video and you might understand why.
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#42> #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…
TazeTSchnitzel's right. For all we know, users reported posts from proud #bi, #gay, and #lesbian people because they wanted those people off Instagram, not because there was anything wrong with their content.
The result is the same: three very meaningful tags that can't be used.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It isn't troubling. Those tags are primarily used to promote pornography. It makes sense.
Moral outrage isn't justified in this case. Sorry.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 intend…
>Also, no, everyone is racist and sexist to varying extents, it's not a binary. Humans are imperfect.
Not everyone and everything is racist and sexist, stop peddling this histrionic narrative. If it's automated, are you claiming that algorithms are racist or sexist? The outcome isn't shaming a sexual orientation any more than x + 3 = 9 is "six shaming."
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#46> #snapchat Huh. I wonder if there is some competition going on here
#kik is also in that list
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#47Some of these are just weird or very specific. I’d love to hear the reasons for them being banned. > #kissing > #newyears > #citycentre > #hornyyyyyyasf > #saltwater
First Google result for #hornyyyyyyasf is: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/hornyyyyyyasf/ Instagram, you're doing it wrong!
Dang.
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#49Some of these are just weird or very specific. I’d love to hear the reasons for them being banned. > #kissing > #newyears > #citycentre > #hornyyyyyyasf > #saltwater
#easter and #kansas also seem kind of weird to me.
(And pity the chefs that want to show off their #eggplant parmesean, I guess...)
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
TazeTSchnitzel's right. For all we know, users reported posts from proud #bi, #gay, and #lesbian people because they wanted those people off Instagram, not because there was anything wrong with their content. The result is the same: three very meaningful tags that can't be used.
What a heinous loss we all have suffered.