• Controversy Instagram apologizes to Pedro Almodóvar

  • Censorship Instagram censors the poster of Parallel Mothers, the new film by Pedro Almodóvar

Almodovar's

'

nipple

', with forgiveness, has ended up in a vindication of the cinema, with all that that means, in the face of the all-embracing power of the algorithm, with all that that ceases to mean. Everything arose two days ago when before the image of what is known as a '

teaser

' poster for '

Parallel Mothers

, the next film by Pedro Almodóvar, the

work of designer Javier Jaen,

Instagram decided to apply the blind criterion that vetoes any image of a nipple feminine.

The brilliant vindication of motherhood through the slight suggestion of a drop of spilled milk became the most obtuse of interpretations on the part of the social network in an obscene image. No more. Shakespeare wrote that every time man acts a liquid spills. Be it blood, semen or milk. Well, what the Bard did not have is that they can also run not

liters of ink but of stupidity.

He didn't have the algorithm.

After the more than foreseeable global and online reaction, Instagram could not help but rectify and apologize. "The context of a work of art was not taken into account,"

Instagram apologized lamely

on Wednesday. Well, now Almodóvar, who on more than one occasion has spoken out against precisely the algorithm, but platforms, celebrates the triumph of cinema and art, and laments the inhumanity of the censoring mechanism with these words:

"Many thanks to all of you who have supported the" Parallel Mothers "poster, to those who have posted it more than once, to those who have debated about the need for a bit of sanity in the face of the sight of a female nipple, to those of you who have talked about it in the media.

You have managed to get the minds behind the algorithm that decides what is or is not obscene and offensive to back down and allow the poster to circulate freely.

It is your victory, a great victory You have to be alert before the machines decide what we can do and what we cannot do I have always relied on the kindness of strangers, but as long as they are human and

an algorithm is not human.

No matter how much information the algorithm has, it will never have a heart or common sense.

Thank you all, again.

Hopefully the movie lives up to your expectations "

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