Instagram’s Sex Censorship is Inconsistent and Hilarious

Instagram updated its list of banned hashtags, keeping #sex but allowing #faketits. Not only is its policy nonsensical and inconsistent—it’s hilariously absurd.

Published Oct. 30 2013 6:15PM EDT

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Instagram has a hashtag problem, but it has nothing to do with the flood of #swag, #follow4follow, #instagood or #YOLO spam that’s clogging your photo stream.

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Instagram has censored more than 100 hashtags, apparently to keep you from searching for pornographic pics.

Nick Drewe

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Instagram’s Sex Censorship is Inconsistent and Hilarious

Instagram updated its list of banned hashtags, keeping #sex but allowing #faketits. Not only is its policy nonsensical and inconsistent—it’s hilariously absurd.

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Nick Drewe