Pro-anorexia ‘thinspiration’ photos shouldn’t be banned from social media


First, they came for the thinspiration pictures. Internet censors are always agitating to ban one thing or another, and it’s rarely the same thing twice. Instead, there’s a revolving carousel of images that are deemed in succession to be beyond even the online pale. Each one seems to present a plausible occasion for, this once, curtailing free speech. The king wearing a pig snout. A swastika. Naked children. Right now it’s semi-naked women that the distressed classes want to cover up—the very images on which the entirety of Western visual culture is founded. …
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