Pornhub Accuses Meta of ‘Discriminatory and Hypocritical’ Restrictions on Instagram

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in an open letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, head of Instagram Adam Mosseri, chief legal officer Jennifer Newstead and global affairs president Nick Clegg. “Sex workers and performers have been unfairly targeted in the form of bans, shadow bans, suspensions, loss of Live privileges and content removal, despite taking extra care not to violate Instagram’s Community Guidelines,” said the letter, which was endorsed by the Free Speech Coalition, the Adult Performance Artists Guild and a list of more than 60 adult performers.Pornhub’s official account was permanently removed from Instagram Wednesday after a weeks-long suspension.

Instagram argued that Pornhub had “repeatedly violated community guidelines,” TechCrunch reported.Instagram’s terms state: “Branded content must not promote the sale or use of adult products or services, except for posts for family planning and contraception.”Pornhub’s letter accuses Meta and Instagram of applying different rules to adult content and celebrities.“While mainstream brands and celebrity accounts frequently feature nudity and overt sexuality with no repercussions, our fully PG accounts are regularly banned without adequate explanation,” the letter states. “Pornhub’s safe-for-work account has been disabled for three weeks.

In the interim, Kim Kardashian has posted her fully exposed a– to her 330 million followers without any restrictive action from Instagram.“We are happy to see that Kim and the artistic team behind the image are free to share their work on the platform, but question why we are denied the same treatment,” the letter continues. “While Kim’s photo continues accumulating likes and making headlines, members of the adult community run the risk of deplatforming if Instagram.