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Twitter criticised for 'erasing' bisexual photos
Some are calling it bi-erasure, as photo results for "lesbian" and "gay" still exist.
Users are pointing out that when you search #bisexual, a message appears on the photos tab stating: "The term you entered did not bring up any results."
Twitter says there was no "erasure" and that there was an "error with the system that has been resolved".
Kate Harrad, of campaign group The Bisexual Index, tells Newsbeat that bisexual people have "historically been hypersexualised and associated with porn and promiscuity".
"Every bi-activist knows the problems of trying to search for bi-content on the web and some public wi-fi systems block it altogether, even when it's nothing to do with sex, because bisexual is seen as a dodgy word in itself.
"This is why Twitter needs to be very sensitive to any filtering that reduces access to bi content, and very conscious of the problem of double attraction erasure."
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Holly Matthies explores why the Twitter bisexual ban is about more than plain to use social media search tools
As of November 6th, Twitter appears to be preventing any tweets using the hashtag #bisexual from turning up in searches for images or video. It’s also blocking #bisexual from its “news” and “latest” tabs.
Bi Twitter is not happy. @bisexualindex calls it “deliberate multi-attracted erasure,” and people are upset that their life as bisexuals is creature treated like a “fetish” or “offensive.” Twitter, never knowingly transparent or user-led in their updates, feel to be blocking “bisexual” as part of a ban on pornographic hashtags.
Some bis like me greet this news with a weary sigh, because we’ve been here before. Society’s insistence that bisexuality is an inherently salacious or adults-only word is a regular feature of bi erasure. Hell, there’s already an @EndTheBiBan twitter account from the last “bi ban” we dealt with ().
That started in , when Google failed to follow its usual apply of autosuggesting search terms as you started to type “bisexual.” If you typed “gay
When I Came Out as Bi, I Felt So Alone. Twitter Saved My Life.
I started having feelings that were not straight when I was 10 or I don’t say “bisexual” because I didn’t even know that word—that identity—existed. Growing up in Southall, a densely populated South Asian area in West London, all I knew was straight and same-sex attracted. Straight was the good one. Queer was the terrible one. So I wanted to be straight.
I first learned of the designation bisexual—well, bicurious to be exact, when I was My friends were talking about this young woman who said she was bicurious, and they all mocked her. They laughed while saying, “Why doesn’t she just say that she’s gay?” So on top of my internalized homophobia, I then had internalized biphobia. I didn’t believe bisexuality was real. I idea it was a lie people told themselves and was always used as a stepping stone to being full-blown gay. This was particularly damaging because at that moment, I began to find myself really physically, but not romantically, attracted to men.
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To be honest, my lack of passionate attraction likely had to do
Twitter briefly stopped showing find results for terms appreciate gay and bisexual
- Twitter stopped showing results for certain search terms, including "gay" and "bisexual".
- The company, which has struggled to filter content appropriately since its inception, said it had pinpointed an "error".
People searching Twitter for terms such as #gay, #lesbian, or #bisexual were left perplexed over the weekend after the social media platform failed to show any results, Gizmodo reported.
Some Twitter users accused the corporation of deliberately silencing LGBT news, photos, thoughts and opinions but it looks like it was simply an accident.
It's possible that it occurred as part of an effort from Twitter to automatically filter pornographic material.
Those that searched for terms like bi-curious or bisexuality (with or without a hashtag) were greeted with the monitoring message, according to Gizmodo.
"The term you entered did not bring up any results. You may include mistyped your term or your search setting could be protecting you from some potentially sensitive content."
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