Hypocrisy on Instagram, say it ain't so.....

[gr82bart]

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN17S285

"Social media company Instagram pulled photos by U.S. photographer Imogen Cunningham promoting an exhibit at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, saying they violated decency standards, even as parent company Facebook Inc faces criticism for users' live videos of murder."

Go see the exhibition:
http://www.mfa.org

Regards, Art

 

[pdeeh]

I shall be disappointed if this thread doesn't run to at least three pages and include at least one expression of outrage about 'political correctness'

 

[MartinCrabtree]

Ah just replace them with a couple guys making out at McDonalds. Let's see how that plays out.

 

[Sirius Glass]

What is Instagram?

 

[faberryman]

"Instagram's online guidelines say the service does not allow photos depicting nudity, even if they are "artistic or creative in nature," and that it prohibits "some photos of female nipples." The site says it does allow photos of post-mastectomy scarring and women breastfeeding, as well as of paintings and sculptures depicting nudity."

Paintings and sculptures okay; photographs not so much.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

What is Instagram?

Instant Like!

 

[MattKing]

I was at a meeting on Saturday of the Northwest Alternative Photography group (more accurately the "Pacifica Chapter of the Center for Photographic History and Technology"). One of the attendees was Meg Partridge, who is Imogen Cunningham's grand-daughter, a director of the Imogen Cunningham Trust, an Oscar nominated director, and actively involved in sharing the work of her grandmother with the world.
I wish I had seen this before Saturday, because I would love to know what she thought of it.

 

[TheRook]

I can understand Instagram's decision on this matter. They have strict guidelines in place to ensure a child-friendly environment by prohibiting all depictions of nudity, graphic violence, etc. If they start making exceptions to the rules, they would essentially be muddying these very guidelines.

 

[winger]

And yet I keep getting "followed" by people whose own photos are WAY outside those guidelines. Mine are mostly rocks, trees, and streams, of course. What bugs me is that paintings are considered "Art" and photography isn't as they're making it follow different rules. And I hope that doesn't derail Art's thread into the usual photography is/isn't art.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Much ado about nothing

 

[pdeeh]

photography is/isn't art.

I agree.
Photography definitely is/isn't art

 

[Agulliver]

I fail to see the hypocrisy on the part of the Facebook/Instagram organisation.

One arm of the organisation is being criticised for swiftly applying it's own rules.
Another arm of the organisation is being criticised for not swiftly enough applying it's own rules.

Also worth a mention that Instagram is designed specifically as a child friendly environment and Facebook is not - one is supposed to be 13 to have a Facebook account.

 

[Luckless]

And yet I keep getting "followed" by people whose own photos are WAY outside those guidelines. Mine are mostly rocks, trees, and streams, of course. What bugs me is that paintings are considered "Art" and photography isn't as they're making it follow different rules. And I hope that doesn't derail Art's thread into the usual photography is/isn't art.

Have you reported any of the users you see who have stepped over the line of the guidelines?
- Developers cannot address issues they are not aware of. We cannot fix bugs we haven't found yet that no one tells us about, and we cannot address users we haven't yet noticed breaking ToS. (We being developers in general, I have no direct connection with Facebook or Instagram.)

 

[removed account4]

Its like anything. Some people and things slip through the cracks and others, because they are a "large draw"
or done about / made by a famous person, do not.

I am on a business networking site that ONLY allows mugshots of people as their "avatar" if you go to customer service
with a question/problem and THEY see you don't have a mugshot they lock down your account, and they do nothing about the 80% of
people who have non-mug shot avatars. they seem to have better things to do/worry about.

while that site is not instagram, it might be the same thing. my guess is if someone complains / "flags" non compliant photography on instagram
eventually they will be taken down, but with 1 billlion users and 20 billion photographs its probably hard to deal with. one would thnk they would
need a whole island nation to deal with non-compliant users,

 

[winger]

Have you reported any of the users you see who have stepped over the line of the guidelines?

They usually disappear in the time it takes me to click to see who's following me. I'll click the name, see that their little blurb about themselves is all links to porn sites or such and all their photos are skin, and when I click the ... to report, it says the user doesn't exist. Since I rarely hashtag my photos, I don't get a ton of clicks anyway.

 

[Luckless]

Ah, in that case it sounds like spambots that are being filtered by the system, as designed. Sadly dealing with spammers is not a trivial task on an open and accessible social media platform.

The world is weird.