Instagram has been building a series of anti-harassment tools and plans to roll them out to all users in the coming weeks. According to The Washington Post, Instagram will let each user create their own banned words list, which will stop unwanted comments from being posted on their photos. Users will also be able to turn comments off on a photo-by-photo basis, so someone could disable comments entirely if they wanted to.
While harassment on Instagram hasn't been as much of a story as harassment on other social networks, like Twitter, the development of these tools is still a big deal. Online harassment is a serious issue that any network needs to deal with, period. And flexible tools like a custom banned word list can let individual...
