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

Fri Oct 2 07:20:22 PDT 2015

Tamar,

Here are some of the articles I’ve collected on this topic in my searches:

- Inside Instagram’s Long Guerrilla War on Porn — and the Users Who Keep Coming Back — The Slice — Medium
- It's cool, Instagram. I'm not 'curvy' anyway—I'm just fat
- The Body-Positive Word Instagram Won’t Let You Search For
- You Can't Search The Word "Curvy" On Instagram
- The skinny on Instagram banning #curvy - CNN.com
- Trending at Instagram
- Instagram Gets Newsy With Trends And Place Search For Exploring Anything, Anywhere
- You Can Now Officially Post Your #Brelfies On Instagram
- Millions of Fake Instagram Users Disappear in Purge - NYTimes.com
- Instagram Relaxes List of Censored Hashtags. Hello #SexualWednesdays | The Data Pack
- Is Instagram Censoring Your #Hashtag? - Spook Magazine
- What you need to know about Facebook and Instagram's war on motherhood
- Revenge Porn and the Purge trend on Instagram and Twitter - Cyberbullying Research Center
- Sadness and outrage and gratitude all in one « Babyccino Kids: Daily tips, Children's products, Craft ideas, Recipes & More
- Instagram still censors your filthy hashtags ... except when it doesn't - NBC News.com
- A List of Blocked and Unsearchable Instagram Hashtags - The Data Pack
- Instaporn: Porn, 'KikSex' Lurk Just Inside Instagram's Photo Eden
- Instagram Has an Anorexia Problem, Too - Technology - The Atlantic Wire
- The Problem With Banning "Thinspo" Content On Instagram

Also worth looking at this two articles, which are about what words Apple’s iPhone refuses to autocorrect.

- The Apple ‘Kill List’: What Your iPhone Doesn’t Want You to Type - The Daily Beast
- Today we published a data story looking at how iOS... - NewsBeast Labs

Tarleton

On 10/2/15, 3:26 AM, "Air-L on behalf of Tama Leaver" <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of tamaleaver at gmail.com> wrote:

>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
>> Senior Lecturer – Media & Digital Media
>> Director of Student Recruitment & Admissions
>> School of Media, Film & Music
>> University of Sussex, UK
>> E: s.j.mowlabocus at sussex.ac.uk
>> T: 01273 (87)6587
>> @creativemess
>> www.sharifmowlabocus.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>> >
>> >Ben Light
>> >PhD MSc BA(Hon)
>> >Professor of Digital Media Studies
>> >
>> >Creative Industries FacultyQueensland University of Technology
>> >Creative Industries Precinct Z1-515
>> >Musk Avenue Kelvin Grove
>> >QLD 4059 Australia
>> >
>> >Phone:    +61 7 3138 8280
>> >Twitter: @doggyb
>> >QUT: http://www.staff.qut.edu.au/staff/lightb
>> >Open Access Publications:
>> >http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Light,_Ben.html
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >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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