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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."
Yep, just another slide down the "progressive" fetish of being saved from yourself by people who just absolutely, positively know better than you.
Just another shot across the bow from the "conservatives" who believe that knowledge and expertise are "Fake News" and that everybody is entitled to their own facts.
I don't respond to AC's.
Emotionally impacted girls (and possibly some guys)
It's just as bad for guys. Endless bombardment with unattainable images of perfect male bodies and toxic ideas about what masculinity is and what it means to be a man. It's easy to laugh at the tactical matte black male grooming tool, but that's just the tip of the iceberg and it makes a lot of men feel inadequate and like they are failing somehow.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC