Instagram, which is part of Facebook, is a social network for photos and videos and its usage policies are very strict, nudity and “a lot of skin” in an image are prohibited elements and the profiles that own the content can be deleted without any notice. prior.
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In the United States, where pornography is more organized compared to Brazil, the Association of Adult Actors (APAG) and members of the Union of Erotic Services Providers raised flags to be the voices of a strike against Instagram.
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The strike known as #instastrike has actors, actresses , dancers, camgirls and all other types of sex workers together to demand a meeting with Instagram to discuss the unfair and discriminatory treatment happening on the social network. There were about 800 accounts deleted for “violating the Terms of Service agreement” and they intend for Instagram to reinstate the accounts. According to AVN, it is speculated that there are recent reports that Instagram has reinstated some deleted accounts when artists paid money to a third party.
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In Brazil, the accounts of professionals in the adult entertainment industry “do not last”, there is no clarity on what can and cannot be published, it is possible to see actresses like Mia Linz, internationally known, losing her profile of millions of followers overnight to the day.
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In 2018 Mia Linz made a dossier about “violating the Terms of Service contract” comparing its contents with those of other personalities around the world in a persecution complaint. The fight was so bad that Mia sued Facebook – which claimed that her profile violated the terms due to a link that led to pornographic and nudity scenes, her Twitter – on the issue of “persecution” the dossier of the Brazilian porn actress pointed to other dozens of actresses who contained links and kept their profiles intact, growing the number of followers without any problem:
In December 2018, the Testosterona website surveyed how many accounts actresses and camgirls had lost so far:
- Bruninha Fitness, actress and model, lost 10 accounts and quit the social network
- Alessandra Maia, actress and model, lost 7 accounts
- Amanda Souza, actress, lost 5 accounts
- Bruna Tuuyty, camgirl and model, lost 2 accounts
- Angel Lima, actress, lost an account with more than a million followers
- Dread Hot, actress and camgirl, lost multiple accounts
- Emme White, actress and camgirl, lost multiple accounts
Instagram needs to listen to the adult entertainment segment so that there is no conflicting information and that everyone can grow their profiles within the rules, knowing the terms of use. Each side needs to know the game they are playing so as not to have a negative balance, banned accounts for actresses and inappropriate content for Instagram.
