This Is Not Allowed

This Is Not Allowed

A gallery of banned content from our favorite social apps ⛔

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This is Not Allowed showcases "unacceptable" photos and videos. Our mission is to create a space that celebrates sex positivity, enables social activism, recognizes legitimate adult businesses, and reclassifies LGBTQ+ content as regular content.
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Instagram•Social Media•Photography
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What do you think? …

Lucy Mort
Maker
Hey everyone! Content moderation on our favorite social media apps is important, within moderation. But this moderation often goes too far and has subtle consequences for society. It threatens sex positivity. It disables social activists for counter speech. It financially harms and misattributes legitimate enterprises as objectionable. It misclassifies LGBTQ+ as adult content. Many have experienced the questionable removal of photos and videos most of us would deem beautiful, artistic, and expressive. In some cases content is reported when the subject’s bodies don’t fit within the conventional definitions of beauty. In some cases women’s nipples aren’t covered or distorted enough. In some cases a dialogue around sexuality is enough to have posts dismantled. The avenues for appeal are limited. We’re forced to express ourselves within the bounds of the puritanical policies of tech giants, or risk having our accounts frozen, and sometimes removed altogether. We built This Is Not Allowed (aka Tina) as a repository for all the reported, removed, and banned content from our favorite social media platforms. For the artists, dissenters, visionaries, provocateurs, listeners & storytellers who’ve been creating well before the “creator economy”. This site is for you. Ellie, Lucy, and Julia
smallder
@lucy_mort whos labeling LGBTQ as "adult content" when it has no nudity? Twitter allows full on nudity. of course they'll mark them, remember Instagram, twitter, fb, yt are 13yo+ sites.
Liz Klinger
@smallder Facebook has classified content such as women kissing (and clothed) as explicit/pornographic content before, and rejects/removes it when you try to do paid advertising. For a long time Google's search algorithm brought up lesbian porn when looking up the term "lesbian" (just lesbian), whether the person was searching for education, resources, or pornography. It changed just over a year ago. https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/... It's not just LGBTQ+ content either. Companies like Hims and Roman can advertise their ED pills on all mainstream platforms while women-centric sexual function products — heck, even ones that are more for straight up *health*, face multiple hurdles just existing on the internet. Here's one such instance where Joylux ultimately got the rare outcome of Facebook reversing their decision, but it's pretty inefficient to have to turn to the press to pressure Facebook just to run a single ad campaign. https://www.mobihealthnews.com/n... Finally as a cherry on top, just the other day YouTube randomly removed the instructional video my company Lioness made to show users on our own site how the Lioness Vibrator works (SFW just showing how to sync the vibe to the app), so now I can't embed a YouTube video on my own website like the normal people. I guess pelvic floor data and charts are a little too explicit for Google. 😬 Or maybe I should have used an Android phone to sync. 😉 @lucy_mort great idea, would love to be in touch!
Liz Klinger
@smallder @lucy_mort @thisisklinger Speaking of, why was my comment above marked as hidden?
Ellie Day
Maker
@smallder @lucy_mort @thisisklinger ironically, it seems like PH hides comments with certain keywords 🤦‍♀️
Liz Klinger
@smallder @lucy_mort @thisisklinger @heyellieday Welp, all the more reason why your work is important!!
Chris Messina
Hunter
Love this initiative. Really need to both destigmatize material that is self-expressive or through its suppression, results in body-shaming... in order to elevate the vapid conversation surrounding social media content moderation.
Edin Vejzovic
@chrismessina You know that there are kids on these platforms? Kids that would not rather see some edgy body 'art' with some chains and nipple piercings and stuff?
Sophie Mona Pagès
@chrismessina @edinvejzovic accounts can choose to show their content to 18+. Why would the content still be censored in that case? Why do you get to show your nipples and I don't? This makes no sense.
Edin Vejzovic
@chrismessina @edinvejzovic @sophspages You should @theworld for that. Why do you think everyone is on instagram - just so see your and mine nipples? Nope. We can show our nipples at many sites, behance, twitter. But instagram is a social network.
Corey Ward
@edinvejzovic There were no female presenting nipples anywhere on the site. Kids see more on the beach, in movies, and in TV commercials, but let’s stop using children as a smokescreen—what offends YOU about the specific photos shown on TINA?
Edin Vejzovic
@edinvejzovic @coreyward It offends me that I don't want to be desensitised to said nipples because I'm exposed to porn all the time, in other words, I don't want to develop a skewed view and a porn addiction. I want my feed to be porn free.
Nate Watkin
Interesting. Does it show all banned content? Or is it curated by your team?
Ellie Day
Maker
@assembletv when you upload a photo, you get a sharable link that is live right away. To start, while we don’t claim to be experts on moderation ourselves, we are going to do a quick check of submissions before listing them on the main. It is an interesting question though. How does a site like this moderate it’s content? Presumably we need our own content policy too!
Nate Watkin
@heyellieday so then where does the content that gets banned from your app go ;) Just joking, I love the idea and branding. Great work!