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Instagram Tightens Eating Disorder Filters (bbc.co.uk)
AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: Instagram has placed more hashtags which could promote eating disorders on an "unsearchable" list after a BBC investigation found that users were finding ways around the platform's filters. The photo-sharing network has also added health warnings to several alternative spellings or terms which reference eating disorders, some of which are popular hashtags on the platform. BBC Trending found that certain terms promoting bulimia were still searchable - and that the Instagram search bar was suggesting alternative spellings and phrasings for known terms which some see as glamorizing or encouraging eating disorders In one case, the search box offered 38 alternative spellings of a popular term.
Starting in 2012, the photo-sharing site started to make some terms unsearchable, to avoid users being able to navigate directly to often shocking images, and posts that promote the idea that eating disorders are a lifestyle choice rather than a mental illness. If someone enters the unsearchable terms into the platform's search box, no results will come up. An Instagram spokesperson said in a statement: "We do not tolerate content that encourages eating disorders and we use powerful tools and technologies -- including in-app reporting and machine learning -- to help identify and remove it. However, we recognize this is a complex issue and we want people struggling with their mental health to be able to access support on Instagram when and where they need it."
Starting in 2012, the photo-sharing site started to make some terms unsearchable, to avoid users being able to navigate directly to often shocking images, and posts that promote the idea that eating disorders are a lifestyle choice rather than a mental illness. If someone enters the unsearchable terms into the platform's search box, no results will come up. An Instagram spokesperson said in a statement: "We do not tolerate content that encourages eating disorders and we use powerful tools and technologies -- including in-app reporting and machine learning -- to help identify and remove it. However, we recognize this is a complex issue and we want people struggling with their mental health to be able to access support on Instagram when and where they need it."
I'm all for this, but whaddya bet this will continue unabated:
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...have we just completely given up on people being responsible for themselves?
I mean, if someone - even an "influencer" (what a fucked-up term) - says "do this shit" are people just so spineless and personality-less that they just sheeplike do what they're told?
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From history.
To news.
Politics.
Memes and funny political cartoons.
Movie script reviews.
Comments about bad religions and spreading faith.
Now its images and words used that needs some new curating. Whats "searchable" and what will be allowed to be found.
What topic is next for some extra censorship and gets to be made unsearchable using powerful tools?
Whats the next "sin" that needs new filters on the "internet?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
So it's fat hate if you point out that there are people who promote how healthy it is to weigh 400+ pounds, who are not being targeted for their eating disorders by the nanny-statists, right?
They're coming for your photos and conversations. Every week a new topic is censored by Facebook/the Chinese government.
A commentary that purports that these terms are somehow 'encouraging' these negative direction eating disorders. No mention of the other direction leading to obesity and diabetes.
We don't see any examples of banned terms, and no comparison and in fact completely ignoring all other aspects of media that indirectly induce this sort of thing. How many of these terms are really 'promoting' this?
Look at women's magazines, diet ads, plastic surgery, exercise obsession, and so many other things that imply that physical appearance is king and you must do something about yours. The media/advertising push is that a 'perfect' body is achievable, and by implication 'you' are not perfect and have work to do (and ideally money to spend!).
Emotionally impacted girls (and possibly some guys) become obsessed with what they eat, in a way that is so stressful that the act of eating itself produces stress and anxiety. Imagine, every time you felt hungry, something inside you made you feel nauseous and panicked. The more you try to eat to get better, the more you worry. The more you worry, the harder it is to eat and hold down what you do eat.
Some of these banned/hidden searches may indeed be promoting this stuff. We don't know, because the article doesn't say, and maybe just making stuff up. It might possibly be outright encouragement, or be as simple as some trigger images/words that add to the stress. Meanwhile, the overwhelmingly pervasive sexy/beauty based advertising and other appearance based psychological targeted entertainment get a pass.
If a guy feels like he identifies as a chick and chops his dick off and loads up on hormones to be more like how he feels why can't fat chicks who identify as skinny go on extreme diets to cure their dysphoria?
The media keeps telling me that poor girls are forced by society and culture to starve themselves to be thin but I look around and see the opposite. If such influence does exist, it doesn't seem very effective.
AmiMoJo is SO TRIGGERED right now...
when they tightened the filter it got worse.
It's overblown nonsense.
A few teens and tweens starve themselves and everyone fucking screams.
Over 70% of the class is legally overweight, smoking, vaping and drinking energy drinks morning, evening and night, and nobody bats a damn eyelid. Fuck society. Let it burn.
All current generations are in for a serious shock when the generations below us end up perma-crippled in their 20s onwards. Society is going to crash in to the ground.
I guess it sorta works out that automation is gaining more ground in more industries? But given better medical knowledge in 20 years, those poor bastards will probably suffer well in to their 80s unfixed.
Seriously, though, they have found some pretty major pathways that lead to obesity and they could be able to target them with a future drug. We already have things that bind to fats and make them indigestible, we need to do something similar for carbs below a certain size, to limit spikes from simple sugars. or at least maybe help bind simpler sugars together in longer chains.
These people won't eat healthy. No chance. The live-fast-die-young generation of today are even worse than those that came before. Easy access to junk food, drugs and other dangerous habits and ideas with the internet. Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter to an extent, Facebook, VKontakte and others all have groups relating to all these things.
I'd hardly be surprised if these groups are started by groups like in the tobacco industry. Memetics is big industry. If you can encourage an idea or activity subtly, it's worth so much more than simple advertising alone.
They are the kinda scummy pricks that would do such a thing.
If they won't tolerate content that encourages eating disorders it begs the question what do they tolerate?
Are there any limits at all Facebook's intolerance?
So they're banning junk food? No more selfies with a glass of wine? That stuff kills millions.
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Just another miserable SJW who won't rest until he makes sure normal people who don't share his mental disorder hear all about the non-issue he is outraged about this time.
Yeah, theres definitely some anorexics but there are far more heifers that need to put down that extra large burger.
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People make unhealthy choices, and sometimes promote them online. Cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, cutting and body modifications, sex practices, athletic, religious and dietary extremes... In many cases these choices are subtly related to suicide. There is an (usually unspoken) understanding that death is a possibility, and that it isn't such a terrible outcome.
I did a quick search on the word 'suicide' and Google offered 460,000,000 results, mostly of a harmless nature I think. Still there are many people worldwide who don't want the tedious diet or alcohol route to death- they want a quick death right now.
Your SJW friends may well organize to remove every hint of any activity that is dangerous to health and well-being. They might try to remove every mention of these activities and suicide itself. But I think that would be a disservice to many who believe they have a right to die and even a right to suffer from bad behavior.
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As a doctor, I see plenty of patients with eating disorders... and none of them are thin. Close your Instagram app, turn off your smartphone, step away from your keyboard... and go outside.
Maybe âoedietâ is too much to describe them, but certain eating habits are proven to be ruinous like Breatharianism (oh the insanity!) fruitarianism (destroys your hormones balance), and some celebrities diets.
Why just eating disorders?
What about people who encourage body dismorphic disorders? Or encore anti-vax?
Now letâ(TM)s get into the fun ones: how about someone who pressures others to get sex change operations, even children? Or on the opposite side of the spectrum, someone who leaves a gay lifestyle and advocates for sexual orientation therapy?
With no moral grounding, itâ(TM)s basically a question of profit and optics.
The have metabolisms that are inefficient. The only reason the are alive is because the modern western world created a situation of extreme abundance.
So this is your excuse for being morbidly obese? Why don't you just blame your mom for not making you get out of her basement and spend some time at the gym?
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Any fellow ED's here reading these comments and thinking "WTF people"?
I'm talking about anorexia. This is a biological / genetic disorder, like schizophrenia or bipolar. It's triggered by dieting not reading a fashion magazine / modern society. A person could read a fashion magazine, start to diet and trigger it, but for 99% this doesn't happen. Once it's triggered + heavy restriction kicks in, it's a world of obsession. The internet both helps and hurts this. A person can find other's in a similar situation which is good, but it also makes it difficult to leave the obsessions behind.
Sounds like body shaming to me. Why isnt being fat banned on there? Why isnt being a tranny banned due to it being a mental illness instead of a lifestyle choice.?
No, sorry, there are none. They are in the vast majority greedy assholes looking out for themselves. Doctors. lawyers, politicians, police, whatever, all of them are filled with flawed individuals.