Instagram have banned #curvy hastag

Junkyard Tom · 19-07-2015 01:13AM

I've put on an incredible mass of weight in recent times. I'm around 14 and a ½ stone now - you might not believe this but I used to weigh about 8 pounds.

19-07-2015 04:39AM

/r/fatpeoplehate gets banned and suddenly there's a 17 page thread in after hours.

efb · 19-07-2015 04:44AM

Twitter searched #curvy

I feel violated

hatrickpatrick · 19-07-2015 03:09PM

Cold War Kid wrote: »

Patrick and Zeffa, what the hell are ye on about? You're so obsessed with sjw spotting (I kinda feel ye'd be gutted if ye didn't have it to complain about tbh) and repressive political correctness (which I personally never encounter day to day apart from the Internet and people talking about it) that you're blinded by it and applying it where it isn't relevant.

How on earth have ye got it into your heads that sjw types would want fat people images banned from Instagram?
CLEARLY they would take the opposite stance.

SJW types want platform providers to take responsibility for what kind of material is and isn't allowed on the internet. In this specific case it's backfired heavily on them, but five or six years ago there was no question whatsoever of platform providers like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc being any kind of moral arbiters. This is what they've been campaigning for, and this is merely an instance of that which has gone against what they believe in - but they started the whole "writing on the internet should have rules" thing, so it's still ultimately their responsibility.

Cold War Kid · 19-07-2015 03:16PM

Yeh censorship of nudity was never a thing until the SJW's.

I hear straws being clutched!

Cienciano · 19-07-2015 03:22PM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

SJW types want platform providers to take responsibility for what kind of material is and isn't allowed on the internet.

Doesnt everyone? Try opening a message board with no rules, give it a week before you have a charter and posting rules

Nollog · 19-07-2015 03:29PM

Cienciano wrote: »

Doesnt everyone? Try opening a message board with no rules, give it a week before you have a charter and posting rules

Most rules are there to protect the service provider, rules nowadays are to protect the viewer.

With all the choice people have on the internet, it should be easy to find somewhere that suits your own head.

jungleman · 19-07-2015 06:48PM

One of the things I've noticed lately has been (and this #curvy nonsense is just an example of it) the total and utter narcissism which social media creates a platform for.

Instagram ban #curvy to combat nudity on their website, the result is a bunch of fat people going ballistic because they can't upload cringeworthy selfies and tag themselves as being full of curves, the "right" body shape.

A few months ago there was a "campaign" where people uploaded pictures of their scars and gave it some other stupid hashtag. As if they were ****ing war vets or something. Who cares?? Who really cares if you have scars, regardless of how you got them? Plastering them on social media doesn't make one "brave" or a "survivor". It's just self indulgent BS.

Instagram is a privately owned website. They can ban whatever they want, if someone doesn't like it they don't have to sign up. If you want to show everyone how large you are, take a few Polaroid snaps of yourself, scribble #curvy on them, and post them to your friends.

hatrickpatrick · 19-07-2015 06:52PM

Cienciano wrote: »

Doesnt everyone?

Far from it.

Try opening a message board with no rules, give it a week before you have a charter and posting rules

Take 4chan for example - the only rules they enforce are those which are legally required to avoid breaking the law. They don't enforce rules regarding taste, morals, or offensiveness.

Cienciano · 19-07-2015 06:58PM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Far from it.

Take 4chan for example - the only rules they enforce are those which are legally required to avoid breaking the law. They don't enforce rules regarding taste, morals, or offensiveness.

Yeah. And look at the state of 4chan

darkpagandeath · 19-07-2015 07:03PM

Cienciano wrote: »

Yeah. And look at the state of 4chan

Aye, Cant stand the heat get out of the kitchen :pac:

hatrickpatrick · 19-07-2015 07:13PM

Cienciano wrote: »

Yeah. And look at the state of 4chan

You can choose not to visit the nsfw sections if you don't want to. Why should Instagram or Facebook be any different just because more people use them? Don't like it, don't look at it. Doesn't give you the right to demand that it not exist at all.

Cienciano · 19-07-2015 07:33PM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

You can choose not to visit the nsfw sections if you don't want to. Why should Instagram or Facebook be any different just because more people use them? Don't like it, don't look at it. Doesn't give you the right to demand that it not exist at all.

I'm afraid it does. And the owners can ignore it, or let anything go. And as I mentioned earlier, most people like some moderation, hence the popularity of the big social media platforms.
For instance, do you think boards.ie would be better with no mods and free speech? I think modding and some rules are a good thing. Not that Im against free speech, but there's too many dickheads just looking for a reaction or just trying to ruin it for the rest of us. Or just plain idiots