[Air-L] List of banned Instagram hashtag searches?

Fri Oct 2 00:26:48 PDT 2015

Hi Natalie, Hanan, Ben, Sharif & a couple more folks off-List,

Thanks so much for your comments and suggestions.

There appears to be a core list of permanently banned hashtag searches
(which now includes, as you note Ben, the single eggplant/aubergine - the
first emoji on the list!), while there are also temporary bans for searches
that have been flagged at a particular time as having a high percentage of
material that violates Instagram's community guidelines (porn, nudity, self
harm, certain types of violence, etc). I can't for the life of me figure
out how Instagram determines how long these bans should last, but at least
that raises an interesting technical question to pursue amongst all the
issues of power, representation and platform politics!

Sharif - I'll email Gemma Cobb shortly, thanks for the suggestion.

If anyone else has any insight into Instagram's hashtag search banning, I'm
going to be looking into this for a while, I think so feel free to add more
here or contact me off-list if you prefer.

Thanks groupmind!

Cheers,
Tama

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Sharif Mowlabocus <
S.J.Mowlabocus at sussex.ac.uk> wrote:

> Tama
>
> Gemma Cobb, one of my Phd students here at Sussex, is currently writing up
> her work on pro-ana and social media.
>
> She has had a very interesting experience when it comes to banned hashtags
> on social media. It would certainly be worth checking in with her about
> this because she found some fascinating practices that were being engaged
> in by pro-ana folk, in response to hashtag censorship.
>
> You can find Gemma’s details online, or email off-list if you want me to
> put you in contact with her.
>
> Sharif
>
> Dr Sharif Mowlabocus
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> School of Media, Film & Music
> University of Sussex, UK
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>
>
>
> On 01/10/2015 10:40, "Air-L on behalf of Ben Light"
> <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of ben.light at qut.edu.au> wrote:
>
> >Tama,
> >
> >Just a very quick suggestion, it might be worth thinking about banned
> >emojis not just text (just in case you weren¹t - sorry it wasn¹t¹ clear).
> >I found out in a digital methods workshop (honest - no really honest) that
> >single aubergine (eggplant) searches are a problem, but double is okayŠ go
> >figureŠ  If this means nothing to you google it, maybe not at work unless
> >you have a pass out for sexually explicit materialsŠ I love my job.
> >
> >Cheers, Ben.
> >
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> >
> >On 01/10/2015 16:28, "Natalie Hendry" <natalie.hendry at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Add to the list: #selfharm and #selfharmm to the list.
> >>
> >>Other related # re: selfharm and mental illness still pop up on IG
> >>including substitutes like #blythe #thynspoo, but the content advisory
> >>message pops up.
> >>
> >>Previously banned:  #edm (see here:
> >>
> https://thump.vice.com/en_au/article/heres-the-real-reason-why-instagram-
> >>b
> >>anned-the-edm-hashtag)
> >>and articles on the previously banned #curvy cover other related # like
> >>#braless, #vagina, #goddess etc.
> >>
> >>Good luck in your search!
> >>
> >>
> >>On 1 October 2015 at 16:00, Tama Leaver <tamaleaver at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Oh, and this is the best I've managed to find so far:
> >>> http://worldofwonder.net/banned-hashtags-of-instagram/
> >>> -Tama
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Tama Leaver <tamaleaver at gmail.com>
> >>>wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > Hi All,
> >>> >
> >>> > Just wondering if anyone either has a full working list of the
> >>>hashtag
> >>> > searches that Instagram has banned?  Or, even better, if anyone has
> >>>been
> >>> > doing any work with the implications of these bans?
> >>> >
> >>> > Thanks in advance,
> >>> > Tama
> >>> >
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