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Instagram Reenables GIF Sharing After GIPHY Promises No More Racism (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the under-review dept.

Earlier this month, Instagram and Snapchat dropped their GIPHY integrations when a racial slur slipped into the company's online database. Now Instagram is bringing GIPHY Integration back after GIPHY confirmed it's reviewed its GIF library four times and will preemptively review any new GIFs it adds. Snapchat has yet to bring the service back. TechCrunch reports: "We've been in close contact with GIPHY throughout this process and we're confident that they have put measures in place to ensure that Instagram users have a good experience," an Instagram spokesperson told TechCrunch. GIPHY told TechCrunch in a statement: "To anyone who was affected: we're sorry. We take full responsibility for this recent event and under no circumstances does GIPHY condone or support this kind of content. We have also finished a full investigation into our content moderations systems and processes and have made specific changes to our process to ensure something like this does not happen again." The racial slur was spotted by a user in the UK around March 8th. "We've shared a censored version of the image below, but warning, it still includes graphic content that may be offensive to some users," reports TechCrunch.

87 comments

  1. Walled gardens by lgw · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There really seems to be a market for these walled gardens. I don't get it, but then I browse Slashdot at -1. I guess enough people prefer bland innocuous pap to freedom. Well, that's people for you.

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    1. Re:Walled gardens by dryriver · · Score: 1, Funny

      Real men browse Slashdot at -2. Oh, the fun you are missing. =)

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      Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
    2. Re:Walled gardens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      most people prefer their beliefs upheld than challenged. Then there are those few who eschew belief. They are the ones who value open communication.

    3. Re:Walled gardens by haemish · · Score: 2, Insightful

      No, "real men" have better things to do with their lives than wade through drivel. I browse at +2

    4. Re:Walled gardens by RoccamOccam · · Score: 2

      Do you really believe that?

    5. Re:Walled gardens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      started off correct; ended w/ admitting you're not a real man

    6. Re:Walled gardens by gl4ss · · Score: 1

      well it's for people who have never seen goatse or don't want their children seeing it.

      as for racism, is picture of a frog can be racist I don't think they can win that battle.

      donald trump as a racist hero? michael jackson? sure. can do.

      but then again, it's a fucken service for fucken GIFS IN 2018! it really ain't for the smartest lot.

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      world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
    7. Re:Walled gardens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I don't believe it. I've observed it.

    8. Re:Walled gardens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And what do you do with the other 23 hours and 59 minutes of your day?

    9. Re: Walled gardens by BKX · · Score: 2

      Real, manly, neckbearded men browse at -1, although we recognize that the higher pointed posts are usually better. We don't have any problems with seeing absolute drivel and garbage in the hope of finding gold that goes against the grain. It happens all the time. If you want a walled garden approach, I say, "Grow up and grow a pair."

      Besides, on this site, there aren't enough posts, generally, to need to cull the shit.

    10. Re: Walled gardens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Probably play WoW and fantasize about women.

    11. Re: Walled gardens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Real, manly, neckbearded men eat meat without cooking it, although we recognize that cooked food is usually better. We don't have any problems with eating botulism, clostridium, listeria and salmonella in the hope of finding something tasty isn't grain grain. It happens all the time. If you want cooked food, I say, "Grow up and grow a pair."

    12. Re:Walled gardens by phantomfive · · Score: 1

      Mostly people just want to feel good?

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      "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
    13. Re:Walled gardens by lgw · · Score: 1

      Sure. But deferring gratification for long-term gain is precisely what separates humans from animals. Broadening your experience of the world, good and bad, so that you can grow in unexpected ways is an early part of that.

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      Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
    14. Re:Walled gardens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Walled gardens keep people out. But they also keep people in. Maybe the kind of people you don't want to keep in.

    15. Re: Walled gardens by phantomfive · · Score: 1

      I don't think that's true (ie animals are also capable of delayed gratification), but I grant your point. Then we might say that the problem is one of information: people don't realize why they should delay gratification here.

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      "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
    16. Re:Walled gardens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Translated: "I can't be racist! MUH FREEDUM!"

    17. Re: Walled gardens by BKX · · Score: 1

      That's great. I literally loled

  2. 1984 isn't meant to be a how to guide by Q-Hack! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The concept of thought police, scares me more than anonymous racism.

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    1. Re:1984 isn't meant to be a how to guide by Q-Hack! · · Score: 3, Insightful

      No, I think I understand it too well. The fact that you can't see the parallels in society today, is quite telling though.

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      Some days I get the sinking feeling Orwell was an optimist.
    2. Re:1984 isn't meant to be a how to guide by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I don't think you did.

    3. Re:1984 isn't meant to be a how to guide by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      i don't commit thoughtcrime. i only engage in the most virtuous duckspeak.

      the government doesn't put us under continuous surveillance involuntarily. i voluntarily put alexa in my home and use google and facebook.

      oh look, it shows me where i've been, i haven't visited any prohibited areas

    4. Re:1984 isn't meant to be a how to guide by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      areas that aren't prohibited TODAY you mean.. History has a way of being malleable to those who have power. Better to not have the track record at all.

    5. Re:1984 isn't meant to be a how to guide by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0

      The concept of thought police, scares me more than anonymous racism.

      If your concept of "thought" involves Instagram and animated gifs, then there's a much bigger problem.

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    6. Re:1984 isn't meant to be a how to guide by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I think he did.

    7. Re:1984 isn't meant to be a how to guide by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      How do you feel about bakeries being required to reproduce certain messages?

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      SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
    8. Re:1984 isn't meant to be a how to guide by apoc.famine · · Score: 1

      Personally, I think it's terrible.

      But I also think racism and bigotry are terrible.

      The real question is which one of these two society would rather have, because we can't have both. Either you don't get to discriminate which means you'll occasionally have to serve people you don't like as equals to those you do, or you do get to discriminate, and racism and bigotry get a pass by society.

      Personally, I feel limitations on being a bigoted/racist asshole is preferable to totally free expression, because nobody chooses to be black or gay. Everyone is free to choose a profession where they don't have limitations placed on their free speech.

      My preference would be that people stop being hateful assholes. In the long run, I think we'll be more likely to get there if people are limited in being bigoted, racist assholes publicly and instead have to do it behind closed doors. When you grow up seeing everyone largely treated as equals, you're probably more likely to actually treat them as equals. While it's painful for people who want to be outright assholes to certain groups of people at the present time, I can't help but think it will be better for everyone in the long run.

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    9. Re:1984 isn't meant to be a how to guide by Wraithlyn · · Score: 1

      Nice strawman. Nobody said anything about "parallels in society today".

      We're just wondering what the blooming fuck you think 1984 and thought police have to do with THIS SPECIFIC STORY.

      Giphy removing a racist image is not an example of government censorship or thought police, you hyperbolic twat.

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      "Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
    10. Re:1984 isn't meant to be a how to guide by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thank you for correcting the record. You are on your way up in the Ministry of Truth.

    11. Re:1984 isn't meant to be a how to guide by Wraithlyn · · Score: 1

      Thank you for spouting idiotic non-sequiturs in place of actual discussion, AC.

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      "Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
  3. Overly Sensitive Much? by Templer421 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Grow up and toughen up a bit Millennials.

    The Universe IS trying to kill you everyday, plan accordingly.

    1. Re:Overly Sensitive Much? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      Stopping a platform from spreading hate - which leads to violence - is reasonable. Why should giphy offer up it's free service to racists? Don't like it? Start your own gif hosting platform that welcomes racism and see how well it does.
       
      For all the generational vitriol and angst directed at Millenials (even when in cases like this claiming it is their fault is irrational), it seems like it's older generations who are the true snowflakes.

    2. Re:Overly Sensitive Much? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Awww, is the widdle troll baby upset? Does he want his free racism platform? Pooooor right wing snowflake.

    3. Re:Overly Sensitive Much? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      There's nothing wrong with hate, you should not be so closed minded. Are you some kind of Hateophobic?

    4. Re:Overly Sensitive Much? by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 3, Insightful

      No one is saying life isn't difficult for most people in various ways, regardless of sex, age, ethnicity / skin color, etc. But maybe it's not a bad thing to do what we collectively can to make it a little less unpleasant where the opportunity presents itself. Yes, the Universe eventually kills us all. That's why we should try to make the most of our brief existence, bringing joy, happiness, and hope to both ourselves AND others, rather than trying to tear others down.

      I see nothing wrong with a private platform deciding that they don't want to spread hateful messages. That being said, I'd probably oppose the government demanding the same actions of a private entity on 1st amendment grounds.

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      Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
    5. Re:Overly Sensitive Much? by gl4ss · · Score: 4, Interesting

      look, that's all fine and dandy, but the intent in which it is posted is what matters more than it being a picture of some dude in a KKK outfit dancing with a frog.

      the fault is at the older generations that watched goatse and laughed their asses off thinking that they shouldn't be showing that stuff to millienials. also some millenials want that.

      it's the normies really, they can't be bothered with thinking for themselves - they can't be bothered to look up and make the decision of if the person who posted something just funnying around or genuinely racist - and if they are genuinely racist, they don't want to know it! they don't want to know if people they interact with are horrible persons. it's the intellectual equivalent of the church turning a blind eye on molestation and just banning discussion about it within the church instead of doing something to it.

      that's also why millenials grow up to be racist, sjw or otherwise intolerant, because they're not exposed to the shit. their shit radars haven't developed, so they think that they and others need protection from what they think is shit - but that just leads them to having dysfunctional shit radars.

      you can't make a joke with a frog? could you re-enact a monty python sketch making fun of hitler and post it? I seriously doubt that.

      and how the fuck am I supposed to laugh at neonazis, antifa and flat earthers if they wouldn't be able to post their shit? it's not like them posting their shit stops them from being idiots - stopping them from posting it further enforces their idea in their head that them being what they are matters. like, average person doesn't give a fuck of either side in a neonazi vs. antifa fight rally - what they see is two groups who get together biannually or annually to fight just for sake of fighting, those two shit groups NEED each other and they just coss a toin to choose in which so called ideology they belong in. you try to suppress it then it just makes them feel special.

      seriously average person wouldn't even be able to tell which side is the nazis in a normal fight-rally. they're both there just to fight. same with football hooligans, it's not like they care about who won the match - the match isn't the point, the rush for doing "something for the cause" is, removing their posts is equivalent to the police detaining them at a fight rally: it is the end goal of the whole meetup.

      shadilay! FREEDOM!

      gnaa also isn't racist. or sexis. or homophobic. it's just gnaa.

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      world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
    6. Re:Overly Sensitive Much? by serviscope_minor · · Score: 1

      The Universe IS trying to kill you everyday, plan accordingly.

      No it isn't. It's simply utterly indifferent.

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      SJW n. One who posts facts.
    7. Re:Overly Sensitive Much? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Stopping a platform from spreading hate - which leads to violence - is reasonable

      Hate doesn't lead to violence. Most people experience hate without becoming violent (really, haven't you ever hated anything? Or anyone?). Even if you want to make it hate of a particular race, mostly it doesn't lead to violence.

    8. Re:Overly Sensitive Much? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Censorship and suppression of constitutional rights stirs up even more hatred, so your point is lost

    9. Re:Overly Sensitive Much? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Most of it is, but the biological components are trying to kill you, to get at your precious energy.

    10. Re:Overly Sensitive Much? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Say what you will, but butt plug usage has *exploded* since goatse hit the scene. (that's based on manufacturing numbers from butt plug manufacturers as well as general sentiment i've encountered onlien and IRL).

      Anecdata Time!

      At last year's office christmas party, we do a gift exchange (everyone brings in a gift and we randomize them). There are about 3 of us. 3 people brought in butt plugs. Not one eyebrow was raised.

      I've also noticed it with girlfriends. Used to be, they'd have a box hidden away with a vibrator. Now there's usually a butt plug or two next to it.

    11. Re:Overly Sensitive Much? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Does anybody know how Templer421's imagination just happened to decide that this story would be about "Millennials?" I RTFAed and there wasn't anything in there about anyone's age.

      If I were going to pull some random(*) bullshit out of my ass from this story and blame a problem on someone not associated with it, I think I could pick plenty of people I'd rather talk unsubstantiated shit about, than the irrelevant millennials. Why didn't he just say "Toughen up a bit, emacs users?" Or maybe we should blame this problem on people of a certain race or religion; you just know that "toughen up a bit, jewish coloreds" is probably already a classic. A topical, thoughtful person might actually make a connection between the subject matter and the blamed group, and come up with something like "toughen up a bit, congresscritters who voted for that crazy so-called 'anti sex-trafficking' bill." Or the oldschool version would be "toughen up a bit, congresscritters who voted for COPA." (The idea being that censorship has always been a thing, and everyone reading this knows that millennials aren't any worse, or unfortunately any better, than other age groups. I think the millennials might even be The Children that we were earlier told to think about, in the "think of the children" excuse given by so many generations of freedom-hating authoritarians.)

      (*) Ok, it's not "random." I guess my whole point is that what bullshit you decide to pull out of your ass, is your way of telling other people who you are. Blaming this on jewish coloreds would be your way of showing off your redneck pride, for example. In this case, Templer421's problems seem to be that he's threatened by younger, cheaper people who are not only gunning for his job, but would give his wife a good fucking that she hasn't had anything like for the last twenty years. And I guess that actually answers my original question.

      Thanks for letting me talk through my question. I'm sure you've all seen this a lot: someone comes up to you and asks yadda yadda and you just stare at them, while they more formally put forth the question which requires that they fill in the blanks that they had been skipping over...

      Anyway, Templer421, sorry your wife is getting a bit overdemanding, and dropping hints that she needs a younger, more responsive dick in her life. Have you tried the little blue pills yet?

    12. Re:Overly Sensitive Much? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I see nothing wrong with a private platform deciding that they don't want to spread hateful messages.

      But who decides what's "hateful"?

      Once rules against "hateful" content are established, you had best hope people you disagree with aren't put in charge, lest you find you are silenced.

    13. Re:Overly Sensitive Much? by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 1

      But who decides what's "hateful"?

      Once rules against "hateful" content are established, you had best hope people you disagree with aren't put in charge, lest you find you are silenced.

      Your argument is precisely why I think it's fine for a private individual or corporation to set rules as they see fit*. But it would be a bad idea for the government to impose those rules on us from above. I don't give two tweets if a corporation tries to "silence" me. I can pick a new corporation to do business with, or start my own damned company. I don't have that choice with the government.

      * There are obviously some caveats here, such as Common Carriers and their restrictions, or not setting laws that violate national laws or regulations.

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  4. The ban itself is racist by SuperKendall · · Score: 0

    To ban the word "Monkey" is to assume it must reference black people. How much more racist can you get?

    What if that was a Harambe GIF, eh??

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    1. Re: The ban itself is racist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Nobody more racist than the Left.

    2. Re:The ban itself is racist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      Funny how you ignore the blurred out N*****. You're feigned ignorance comes off as kinda racist. Or maybe it's just real ignorance in which case, hey this is a learning experience for you and now you know. So next time give it a rest.

    3. Re:The ban itself is racist by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 1, Troll

      Funny how you ignore the blurred out N*****.

      ... And the drawing of the black woman immediately underneath.

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    4. Re:The ban itself is racist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Funny how you ignore the blurred out N*****.

      ... And the drawing of the black woman immediately underneath.

      That looks like a post by the person in the corner of the image "dee"

  5. What the fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I read this a few times trying to decipher what other possible reasons there could be for it, but I'm left without any. Seriously, what the fuck?

    tl;DR - Rather then think and act with some rational thought process, a few butthurt liberal sites pulled every image hosted by GIPHY over one. It's like banning imgur.

    Snowflakes, get the fuck off the internet if you can't handle yourselves.

    Fun fact, "Google's" is used as an alternative to the "N" word. Why? Purely to illustrate the hypocrisy in censorship. There _many_ other like examples. You can't ban them all this isn't Pokemon.

    Further hypocrisy, you can't even say that on Slashdot. "Filter error: Lameness filter encountered". Truly a sad state of the Internet.

  6. Instagram And Snapchat Were So Wholesome Before... by dryriver · · Score: 2

    My soul is now broken beyond repair...

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    Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
  7. That's what qualifies as offensive nowdays? by Snotnose · · Score: 2

    Had I grown up in these times I would have never graduated high school, unless the prison I was sent to had high school classes.

    1. Re:That's what qualifies as offensive nowdays? by thinkwaitfast · · Score: 5, Interesting

      November 14, 1982. Proof that time travel is real

  8. Keep Up by dohzer · · Score: 1

    I haven't been keeping up with the news, but are we all switching from Facebook to Instagram following the Cambridge Analytica scandal?

    1. Re:Keep Up by phantomfive · · Score: 1

      but are we all switching from Facebook to Instagram following the Cambridge Analytica scandal?

      I hope so, just because of the sheer stupid irony of it. Instagram is owned by Facebook.

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      "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
  9. "but warning..." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    "...but warning, it still includes graphic content that may be offensive to some users" - but what about the victims of the crimes? Are they less important than those who feel offended over a word?

    1. Re:"but warning..." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The Parkland shooter is receiving a lot of fan mail.

    2. Re:"but warning..." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Same thing happened with every other high-profile murderer, especially serial killers. Famous crazies attracting other crazies, I suppose.

  10. They need our protection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Because they are so fragile that the slightest perceived provocation drives them into a rage. This is why in the USA African Americans assult whites ~200 times more than whites attack blacks.

    Whites should know better than to be near their personal space.

    https://duckduckgo.com/html/?t...

    1. Re:They need our protection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      That just means African Americans are superior. Nature and natural selection ensure the most violent go on to breed. A society that is not violent and cohesive will be replaced with one that is.

      Crackers need to take a lesson from African Americans and become more violent.

      I'm not advocating racism. African Americans and Crackers should join forces and become a multi ethnic nation of violent men spilling over the borders of neighboring nations in order to take kill their men and steal their women.

      This post is liberal approved since it endorses natural selection and Darwin. The left loves Darwin.

  11. Black people say nigger all the time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Computers are not able to figure out which instances of NlGGER are "okay, because the speaker was historically oppressed, and is now 'reclaiming' the ethic slur as an act of racial empowerment"

    This is why Google is researching AI. Computers need to interpret an ever-growing list of Safe Space Sensitivity Rules and determine which contexts are "sufficiently progressive", like "a NlGGER said NlGGER - so its okay"

    1. Re:Black people say nigger all the time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're not the arbiter of acceptable speech you fat fanook

    2. Re: Black people say nigger all the time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you're obsessed over whether or not people should have the freedom of speech to say things that others may find offensive, your probably a thin skinned pussy or a dark skinned simian ready to chimp out over the smallest slight.

    3. Re:Black people say nigger all the time by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0

      You're not the arbiter of acceptable speech you fat fanook

      No, I'm not. That's what parents are supposed to be for.

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    4. Re:Black people say nigger all the time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Have you ever sucked a PoC's dick to "balance the scale" or right the past wrongs of slavery?

    5. Re:Black people say nigger all the time by Z80a · · Score: 0

      The end result of what you want is a bunch of black people banned from the service.

    6. Re:Black people say nigger all the time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      I've seen a parent (me) accused of abuse and sexual harassment for using the wrong non-gendered pronoun for a child's acquaintance. The "wrong non-gendered pronoun" was the word "they" for a teen who's changed gender 3 times in the last 3 years. Any attempt to straighten out the kid about language is taken as a "tool of the patriarchy", by the child's mother, who has 3 master's degrees but is *much* too busy with the SJW crowd of coffeehouse klatches to do *anything*, including their own laundry or putting gas in the car.

    7. Re: Black people say nigger all the time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      On the positive side, it is unlikely that her fucked up offspring will ever reproduce and pass on her defective genes. Maybe she will realize her error as she lays dying, alone in a nursing home because her kid has taken its own life years earlier from the serious mental illness she inflicted upon it. At least it's a self correcting cycle.

    8. Re:Black people say nigger all the time by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      The end result of what you want is a bunch of black people banned from the service.

      I didn't say anything about "banned". I wasn't talking about official policies or any particular social media.

      I was talking about living in society. If you are not sure if you should say a particular racial slur, you should not say it. How is that in any way controversial to anyone but Anonymous Cowards on Slashdot?

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    9. Re:Black people say nigger all the time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The post says COMPUTERS.

      See that? Computers? Says it twice.

      Doubtless it refers to the various AUTOMATED content filters currently being developed for comment sections, tube sites, etc. You would know about these things if you actually read slashdot, but it's clear you can't even read 2 sentences without becoming distracted and responding to some imaginary situation, as if your stupid emotional detour was the original topic.

  12. Re:NIGGER CRIME by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Cracker Please!!!! I can say that cause I'm white.

  13. I bet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    I bet they have no problem with able-ism.

    Hypocrites

    1. Re:I bet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I bet they have no problem with able-ism.

      Hypocrites

      I literally can't even you insensitive clod.

  14. sad day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    when nobody can be offended anymore. pussies.

  15. lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    cracker-ass n1ggers

  16. Re:NIGGER CRIME by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    SMDH NIIGGA WHAT $$$$$ (Get Money Tho

    niggaz be like SNAKES yaw.. dey outside.
    den dey roll back into dey holes

    win ditchu done dit gotcho weave done girr, nnn hnnnn. what.

  17. We promise no more racism by Daralantan · · Score: 1

    The wording of the subject seems a bit off. Makes it seem like the situation was: GIPHY: Please let us back, we won't be racists anymore!

  18. double standard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I find it interesting that people go out of their way to censor racist content to protect sensitive users, but it is no longer fashionable to censor sexual, profane, "vulgar" content that might irritate or offend a more conservative person. Portrayals of gay sex / romance which bother some conservatives are in vogue now and these people are shamed if they complain about not wanting to see these things in their tv and movies. This stuff doesn't bother me personally, but i think it's a double standard. I guess we have these shifting cultural standards and it's not a problem until enough people can't agree on what's acceptable. I think the best solution is to let everyone say and think whatever they want and work it out among themselves.

    1. Re:double standard by RogL · · Score: 1

      >> I think the best solution is to let everyone say and think whatever they want and work it out among themselves.

      Hear hear!

      An insightful AC - will wonders never cease!

  19. Re:NIGGER CRIME by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    sounds like a toddler asking for a Saltine

  20. Re:NIGGER CRIME by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Both instagram and giphy banned me for posting hotwife pics/gifs. (many of them were black men fucking my wife!)

  21. Hey, give them more fucking attention why dontcha? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No -- I'm not talking about people who use the First Amendment correctly. I'm talking about the SJW attention seekers at the social media sites, who keep banning protected speech.

    Sure, they're private entities, and the First Amendment was directed towards government censorship.

    Keep this up though, and likely, they will somehow become public -- common carrier, etc...