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<\/p>\nThe talk of the town today in Amman was how the recent video by Ayman Aballi was taken down\u2014repeatedly\u2014by Instagram. The video basically shows him making a satirical joke about taking down the Israeli government with a slipper. The video was taken down ostensibly because the portrayal of the flip flop\u2014a callback to a leaked video by the IDF that showed Hamas fighters wearing flip flops in a tunnel\u2014contains content that supports a terrorist group and therefore violates Instagram\u2019s terms of service.<\/p>\n
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Early on the morning of May 26th, Ayman Aballi attempted to upload his satirical slipper video. Shortly after refreshing, he found that the video had been erased. After attempting to re-upload the video and continuing to receive “Video upload failed” messages, he edited the video to see what the issue was. For the next 24 hours, Instagram\u2014either through manual oversight or through a detection bot’s actions\u2014failed to allow him to upload the video.<\/p>\n
This did not stop the video from picking up steam elsewhere! Twitter and TikTok went viral with the video, reaching 100K views in under 5 hours, all the while Ayman was making comedic stories about how scared they were of some slippers.<\/p>\n
Maybe he was right…<\/p>\n
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