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These people have found my email address and are sending similar hate-filled emails as well,” they said. “When I block these accounts, new accounts are being created to attack me. “I am now receiving vitriolic comments and messages including death threats and videos of the rainbow flag being burned and replaced with a Nazi swastika every day. Since launching the campaign, Ridwan says they have received increased levels of abuse on the platform. #BanTheHateEmoji involves several demands for Instagram, including filtering out the ‘hate emoji’ from comments, better diversity and inclusion training for comment and account moderators, and making “continued abuse towards LGBTQIA+ accounts more clearly stated” as being against the app’s rules. “Even if it is not possible to prevent users from making this symbol … Instagram has a responsibility to overhaul their Community Guidelines to protect LGBTQIA+ creators,” Ridwan said. Speaking to Indy100, Ridwan added that they have been trying to get the attention of Instagram to make a statement on the icon and why it is not against the platform’s guidelines.
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“A $100 billion tech company *must* be tech-savvy enough to automatically remove the symbol and ban users seen utilising it to abuse us.” In an Instagram post detailing their campaign, Ridwan writes: “These guidelines are protecting bullies and bigots, leaving LGBTQIA+ people to face this abuse without the tools to stop it.