Instagram introduces new "breast policy": squeezing is not allowed, but holding is!
Instagram has introduced a new nudity policy. The company has done so in response to the wrongfully removing images of British model Nyome Nicholas-Williams, who posed nude in the photo app while covering her breasts. Summary of the new policy: squeezing breasts is not allowed, holding or hugging is allowed.
According to Instagram, the images were removed on the basis of the ban on "squeezing the chest," but it was an incorrect decision. That prohibition is about gripping breasts "in a gripping motion with bent fingers or when there is a marked change in the shape of the breasts."
According to the black model, the removal of the images was due to racism in Instagram's algorithm (the system that automatically approves photos). Similar images of naked and thinner white women were not removed.
The social medium will therefore check more closely the way in which breasts are held. Hugging and holding breasts is now explicitly permitted. It may take a while for those new policies to be properly enforced, but the company is determined to get it right, parent company Facebook reported yesterday.
Instagram has introduced a new nudity policy. The company has done so in response to the wrongfully removing images of British model Nyome Nicholas-Williams, who posed nude in the photo app while covering her breasts. Summary of the new policy: squeezing breasts is not allowed, holding or hugging is allowed.
According to Instagram, the images were removed on the basis of the ban on "squeezing the chest," but it was an incorrect decision. That prohibition is about gripping breasts "in a gripping motion with bent fingers or when there is a marked change in the shape of the breasts."
According to the black model, the removal of the images was due to racism in Instagram's algorithm (the system that automatically approves photos). Similar images of naked and thinner white women were not removed.
The social medium will therefore check more closely the way in which breasts are held. Hugging and holding breasts is now explicitly permitted. It may take a while for those new policies to be properly enforced, but the company is determined to get it right, parent company Facebook reported yesterday.
