The censorship of algorithms has struck again on Instagram and Facebook. This time, it is the Parisian activist and DJ Leslie Barbara Butch and the magazine Télérama who are concerned.
The cultural weekly published its new issue on Wednesday. On the front page, a file entitled "Why we reject the fat", dedicated to grossophobia, that is to say discrimination and forms of oppression against fat people. The cover photo, signed Jérôme Bonnet, poses Leslie Barbara Butch, DJ, model and activist committed to LGBT + rights and against grossophobia.
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Leslie Barbara Butch by Jérôme Bonnet. Grossophobia: but why do we reject the fat? France has around six and a half million obese and nearly two million people who are overweight. Nothing is done for them. Subways, buses, trams: most of the time, not equipped with ad hoc seats. Schools, with standard furniture, and too bad for children who bang their legs against the tables every day. Hospitals, whose beds are rarely capable of accommodating people over 120 kilos, and where gowns are assigned automatically to patients, even if they cannot close them. Besides that in Paris only two public hospitals offer MRI XXL version! Added to this is what cannot be measured: the social rejection assumed by colleagues, waiters, salespeople, or even doctors. "Society does not want me, and it proves it to me," denounces activist Gabrielle Deydier. With others, she attacks grossophobia, an insidious discrimination that one does not want to see. Thanks to these women, things seem to be moving… Leslie Barbara Butch, model and fat activist, is also committed to the exclusion of all minorities. @barbaraxbutch @barbarabutch #lesliebarbarabutch #barbarabutch Find in Télérama and on telerama.fr the survey of Valérie Lehoux. 📷 @jjjbonnet @gabrielle_deydier @dariamarx @queenmafalda @gaelleprudencio #GabrielleDeydier #grossophobie #fatphobia #fatacceptance #fatactivist #allbodiesarevalid #bodypositive #stopgrossophobie Hair Makeup @kevinjacotot @dynadagger Post Prod @processusphoto @loranstosskopf Design Capture @neoncaptureofficiel ✍️ @valerie_lehoux
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"No sex, no nipple, but lots of skin. Too much, apparently "
“The photo of Leslie Barbara Butch shows neither sex nor nipple, obviously, but a lot of skin. Too much, apparently, for social networks, "wrote Télérama journalist Thomas Bécard in a post on Thursday.
Indeed, if the magazine's publications on social networks could be posted without problem, several Internet users, including Leslie Barbara Butch herself, suffered censorship from Instagram by sharing this front page. "When [Leslie Barbara Butch] wanted to" cover "the cover of our magazine, her Instagram account was suddenly closed, writes Thomas Bécard. Before being restored, 24 hours later ... Only because she had an acquaintance at Instagram France. "
"I am invisible"
An Instagram spokesperson said in a statement to the weekly: "We want Instagram to be an inclusive place where everyone feels comfortable enough to be themselves. The content was removed in error and we are sorry. He has since been restored. But, according to the magazine, other Internet users are still prevented from posting this cover. A reader also testifies, in a letter, to have received a threat of censorship for having tried to share the One of Télérama .
"I am invisible , " said Leslie Barbara Butch to Telerama , you can no longer comment on my stories, you no longer find my account in the network's search engine, you can no longer mention me ... This kind of censorship is serious, it only happens for fat people. Because it is not the first time that the activist has seen his account or his publications deleted. On several occasions in recent weeks, she has testified about the deletion of some of her publications, and has received threats of account deletion from Instagram.
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Again Instagram censors and wants to shut up the accounts of people who don't meet their criteria. ME BIG PROUD AND DYE I WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR THE VISIBILITY OF ALL BODIES ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND IN THE MEDIA! This censorship must stop. Let us show that we exist. I do not take all these photos to show off or what, I do it because it gives me strength to face my everyday life in an unsuitable public space. Because when I take these photos it allows me to find myself beautiful. Because when I post these photos I tell myself that it can help at least one of you to accept yourself, to love yourself a little more, to gain a little confidence. So insta please let me continue to spread my love and my fat. I have so much struggle to arrive there And if the media want to help me to fight against censorship dm me.
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#Niquelagrossecensure
In response, Leslie Barbara Butch launched the hashtags #barbarabutchchallenge and #niquelagrossecensure, and encouraged her subscribers and Internet users to continue sharing this photo. Many Instagram users answered the call, sharing the front page in story or in publications in recent days. The writer Virginie Despentes posed herself with the Télérama number in hand, in a photo posted by Leslie Barbara Butch.
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Barbara Butch Challenge! Virginie Despentes fucks the Big censorship !!! Thank you my @zouzoukitty For this gift Join the game! Take a picture with the mag and post them ❤️❤️❤️❤️🤜 ♥ ️🤛 #barbarabutchchallenge #niquelagrossecensure
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@barbarabutch censored on Instagram? We #niquelagrossecensure by participating in #barbarabutchchallenge 🤜🤜🤜🤜🖤🖤🖤🖤🤛🤛🤛🤛 #fucklagrossophobie
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☕️🍿 Our coffee machine is back for good !! 🎉 Those who followed the adventure know that it was a hell of an epic 😂💖 But that's it, she is indeed back so that we can cook you super latte macchiato vegan 😍☕️🍿 And tasting your soft drink you can obviously browse the books of our artists 🖼, but also admire this fabulous cover of @telerama 🗞 representing @barbarabutch! 💖🎉 Take the opportunity to go support her on her account, victim of grossophobic censorship on the part of @instagram 😤 Very soon 🌈💫 - - - - - - #veganbordeaux #bordeauxvegan #veggie #vegandrinks #lattemacchiato #bordeauxmaville #stopgrossophobie #barbarabutchchallenge #salondethe #tattooshop
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Télérama's coverage is not an isolated case. Like Leslie Barbara Butch, fat people frequently see Instagram remove some from their publication, when social network algorithms judge that there is too much "nudity" or that the photos are "sexual" - and even when no nipple or genital area is visible. For example, a year ago, the Huffington Post reported the story of a photo with a tall model (56) in underwear who had been deleted by the social network.
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