Instagram Apologizes For Censoring Pedro Almodóvar’s Nipple Film Poster

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Instagram’s algorithm certainly errs on the side of banning first, reversing decisions later — and art suffers the consequences

with Almodóvar, shared the poster on Instagram. It was designed by graphic artist Javier Jaén, and he initially posted the photo to his personal Instagram account, where it was banned. As you can see below, the design is centered on a black-and-white image of a lactating nipple, and the framing suggests that it is intended to look like a crying eye.

Jaén explained that the censorship didn’t come as a surprise to himself and Almodóvar. “He told me that he had made films with posters his whole life,” Jaén told the AP, “long before Instagram, and he would keep doing so after Instagram, too.” True to form, Almodóvar doesn’t give a single“This is probably the first image I saw when I was born,” Jaén continued. “A company like Instagram tells me my work is dangerous, that people shouldn’t see it, that it’s pornographic.

Instagram routinely censors images that, by its own terms of service, should be allowable on the feed. As an all-ages app, it’s absolutely understandable that the company aggressively bans sexual imagery. But as the #FreeTheNipple movement, a cottage hashtag that has sprung up to protest its policies, perceived male nipples aren’t subject to censorship because they aren’t sexualized like female breasts, even though they are literally the exact same anatomical body part. .

 

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