Instagram lifts ban on "curvy"

I think fatties are kidding themselves in saying "curvy" refers to them. As far as I can see, the usual polite way of referring to fatties is "big"

A week after it found itself under fire for banning users from tagging their photos with #curvy, Instragram has reinstated the word after backlash from users.

The company outraged plus-size women earlier this month by preventing the word 'curvy' from being used as a search term, while it was still possible to search for the 'skinny', 'thin' and even 'anorexia'.

In a statement a spokesperson from the company said: 'We want people to be able to express themselves, and hashtags are a great way to do that.

'At the same time, we have a responsibility to act when we see hashtags being used to spread inappropriate content to our community.

'In the case of #curvy, we don’t like putting restrictions around a term that many people use in very positive ways, so we have decided to unblock the hashtag while taking steps to ensure that it's not used as a vehicle for bad content.'

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