Nah, music doesn't need to be consigned to that kind of hierarchy. Maybe you don't like punk, but it wasn't derived from metal and requires a lot of rhythmic skill to do well. It was a reaction to all the 15 minute guitar masturbation 70s—a crisp, political, fuck you. Some metal has more harmonic complexity, but lots…

Maybe this is a generational thing? I'm in my 40s and have been a bridesmaid a few times but was never asked to pay for any of the things mentioned in the article except a dress and a small bridal shower (15 ladies in the living room eating homemade sandwiches with the crusts cut off). It seems this is more a matter…

I know I'm gonna get creamed for this but I find it charming Portugal beat the US. Go little tiny country with a tiny little GDP!

Nah...maybe this corporation but not all corporations. I work for a large company that wouldn't put up with this kind of nonsense for a moment. I know its easy to imagine all corporations are evil but, as with any kind of reductive conclusion, its just not that simple. There are good companies and bad.

Actually what you outline is how corporations get brand protection not why. Corporations get brand protection because their identity is valuable. An individual's identity is likewise valuable and deserves protection. People should be able to exist on the internet without being exploited.

Nope. Totally disagree. Stealing someone's images for hate speech has to come with consequences. Corporations have brand protections—why can't people have similar protections? Everyone who doesn't want to be exploited just has to stay off the internet?

Banning this person from Instagram is a great step the company could take. Another step we could take is to criminalize unauthorized appropriation of images. And actually internet death threats and rape threats are rarely prosecuted as crimes primarily because people throw up their hands and chock it up to the wild…

But by that logic, women who receive death threats and rape threats (which happens with alarming frequency) should just get off the internet because you can never guarantee that a pervert or assholes might target you. My point is, hey, let's make this a safe space for folks as best we can. Let's institute policies and…

We're in violent agreement about the need to change privacy settings. My point (and I'll grant you that it is unclear whether or not the mom mentioned in the above article agrees) is that it doesn't have to be this way. Instagram could establish protections so that images, particularly of children, can't be…

Actually she did indeed contact Instagram for help and changed her settings. The two are not mutually exclusive.

Doesn't have to be that way. I think that is why this woman is raising an objection...to get Instagram to change its policy.

Oh please. There are many of us who really enjoyed The Color Purple while we were busy being white.