Vagina Museum
It's time to tell you about another new, exciting type of digital censorship that we've discovered while existing as a museum of vaginas, vulvas and the gynaecological anatomy. This time: Google Ads.
Dec 10 at 1:37pmWeb
Show threadVagina MuseumDec 10
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Show threadVagina MuseumDec 10
It's taken us a good five years to get a free charity Google Ads account set up. These accounts offer a substantial amount of free advertising. And with "vagina" in our name, it took quite a while to get set up, because, well, digital automated censorship.
Show threadVagina MuseumDec 10
First of all, the good news. Possibly after we and other gynaecological health charities spent years kicking up a fuss, the words "vagina" and "vulva" and derivatives thereof are NOT blacklisted as keywords. That's a tiny bit of progress.
Show threadVagina MuseumDec 10

We were honestly pretty shocked by this. We'd been prepared to make some noise about yet another platform banning the word "vagina", and we didn't have to.

But.

Then we discovered that there is some mischief going on...

Show threadVagina MuseumDec 10
Here are some keywords that Google Ads deems "not appropriate for everyone".
Show threadVagina MuseumDec 10
So there you have it. If you're wondering why so many people can't find the clitoris, blame Google.
Show threadbituur esztreymDec 10
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if there was only Google to blame here alas.. this is only adding insult to injury..
Show threadJonDec 10
@vagina_museum If you're looking for it by tapping clitoris into Google then you're doing it wrong...
Show threadJoris MeysDec 10
@freshstart @vagina_museum I've discovered that looking for it by gently tapping does work though.
Show threadAtomic FoxDec 10
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Show threadMexicanYentaDec 10
@vagina_museum @tsukkitsune please tell me this is AI. Please! 😭
Show threadLaurent CimonDec 10
@tsukkitsune @vagina_museum he must really know how to please a woman
Show threadChucklesDec 10
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Show threadDune (1987), but regular timeDec 10
@vagina_museum I absolutely love how Google block scientific words? like. how are we supposed to talk about anatomy?
Show threadAlexDec 10
@vagina_museum search engines have become really strict. becoming difficult to find good porn. :(((
Show threadIncident Creator ❎Dec 11
@vagina_museum Ironic, because Google are a bunch of C%^&*[^A
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Show threadPaper MoonDec 11
@vagina_museum imagine some pimple spending a fortune on SEO so that every time someone searches for clitoris, Google tells them about the pimple at the top of the search results. And then AI takes over but it's trained by tech bros who are all virgins.
Show threadElricDec 10

@vagina_museum Censorship is so weird and so pointless. Who do they think they are protecting with this nonsense?

That was, of course, a rhetorical question, because we know the answer is "money from advertisers".

Show threadMaxTheFoxDec 26

@vagina_museum This by the way is the reason TvTropes had to purge most articles about NSFW contexts.

Corporate puritanism is a plague.

Show threadBitslingers-R-UsDec 10
@vagina_museum I'm glad you're using them here, and they're not using you. Thanks for your wonderful work!
Show threadKestralDec 10
@vagina_museum I wasn't going to tell you off for it - but I just donated a spare tenner because I hate Google with a passion too yet am forced to use it sometimes.
Show threadVagina MuseumDec 10
@kestral Thank you! <3
Show threadDune (1987), but regular timeDec 10

@vagina_museum as someone who's trying to de-google her life, I tell you whut it's fuckin' everywhere

I would never fault you for using tools at your disposal, when there really are no other alternatives

if we lived in a world of choice, the ethics of using Google would be a lot more simple

Show threadNatDec 10
@vagina_museum "I won't donate money to you until you pass my purity test [that requires spending money]" is the definition of self-defeating politics. One of many reasons we're descending into global fascism rather than building effective coalitions for change 🫠
Show threadWayne WernerDec 10

@vagina_museum I have to say that the ridiculous irony is that Google is happy to serve me "boobtastic" ads, ads that are clearly hyper sexualized ("the dragon princess she fell out of the sky and landed directly on his member") and ads for mob boss with the scantily clad secretary...

But the clitoris is somehow naughty.

Show threadWayne WernerDec 14
@vagina_museum I was just served this YouTube ad, FWIW.
Show threadVagina MuseumDec 16
@ketmorco Clitoris: bad. Terrible AI touched up asscrack: Yay!
Show threadG.I. Robot Dec 10

@vagina_museum

I guess the question is whether or not the penis museum also gets censored? https://www.phallus.is/

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