The recent abrupt ban of a popular pole dancing teacher and blogger has reignited fury about Instagram and other social media’s enforcement of questionable “sexual solicitation” policies. Many activists and sex workers are saying that the company’s new terms of use further restricting sexually explicit content has gone too far. As a pole dancing teacher and blogger who has been using her Instagram account to network and spread her work for almost a decade, she has long been dealing with what many call “shadow bans.”
The pole-dancer tweeted that she believes she was unfairly targeted after posting a petition, titled “Instagram, stop unfairly censoring nudity and sexuality,” which collected 120,000 signatures. Activists claim the sex polices have alienated sex workers, but also those who publish content on sex education, or those with content that are deemed too sexually explicit, such as pole dancing or strip teasing. “This policy disproportionately affects sex workers, who are working online during the pandemic, but also creators posting nudity and sexuality, which may be mistaken for soliciting,” she wrote in a post speaking out about the unfair ban of her account.
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