With controversy inside, adjusts the Instagram search censorship. The Photos app has released a new policy where you are allowed to delete those hashtags or tags that generate results that violate their content standards, as may be be nude pictures.
This occurred with a last case with the word «curvy«, used in English to refer to voluptuous women and/or with curves in their body. The Instagram team discovered that some users were using this word to upload sexually explicit images, something that their community guidelines do not allow (this policy itself comes from the policies of Facebook, which owns Instagram). By deciding to delete this content, many users who used the hashtag «#curvy» began a protest using another phonetically similar label in their content, «#curvee«.
Hashtaging is an integral part of Instagram, as it is the way in which many users make their photos gain popularity by appearing in other users’ searches, and thus gaining new followers.
Although it is true that this type of response by the social network can be effective in extreme cases where the content violates someone’s honor and dignity, in many other situations the content is usually harmless and even artistic; This is where the controversy starts about whether Instagram remains only as a platform or as a direct “judge” of what should or should not appear on it.
Either way, Instagram is not the only social network facing these dilemmas. The same has happened to Facebook, a network that has been criticized for a long time for also censoring artistic nudes or images of mothers breastfeeding their children.
A side fit
This seems to be collateral to the adjustments in the search systems that Instagram is providing to restrict this type of content that now would not only be trackable from mobile but also from desktop. Since a few days ago Instagram is adding the
Users will now be able to search for hashtags, profiles or places on Instagram.com, in an experience that is growing outside of the mobile app – without leaving it aside, since that’s where the content is being created from. In addition to adding the web search option on Instagram, the app has also created landing pages for tags with geolocation (geotags) and hashtags, and you can also see some of the most prominent posts.
Although Instagram definitely started as a mobile app, the content generated continues to evolve for brands, being an integral part of the strategy for some of them and allowing them to drive traffic to different websites.
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