Social Media Porn Wars

Online porn is a global phenomenon. If we count online porn as a whole, after the first social media in the world and the first video sharing website in the world, there is porn.

What’s happening now? We have problems with porn and social media. Too many nipples around the mainstream platforms. What then? the answer is easy: porn has to respect terms and conditions.

Fine. Everybody would agree with this.

But that would be too simple. What is happening is that terms and conditions are respected, but the accounts closed, without explanations, thousands of times.

Imagine having a good twitter account and imagine being Melody Kush

Having a twitter account closed, when you think you’re not doing anything wrong, can be annoying. Now think if you opened it 4 years ago and you had 114,000 followers. And you work with twitter.

That is what is happened to Melody Kush. According to VICE, Melody “experienced a permanent Twitter suspension in May 2017 just before she was supposed to give a talk about social media at an industry convention. Kush was known for her online presence and had attained nearly 114,000 followers in the seven years her Twitter account was up.

“It was the absolute worst time in my career to be suspended,” she told VICE.

To this day, Kush can’t be sure what exactly caused her permanent suspension since Twitter never officially told her. She said she’d been temporarily suspended for using a photo with visible nipple in her header once in the past. At the time of her suspension in May, though, she didn’t have nudity present in her avatar nor header. Kush started using a backup account in the wake of her suspension she said she believes is currently under a shadowban—a term used to describe the way some platforms can make users’ accounts and content less visible on a given site.”

Melody Kush has now a twitter account that now counts 19,000 followers.

Apparently, someone is not happy about all this porn. I don’t know why. But fine. The problem is that some big boss of the internet, probably after 5 beers, took some big virtual guns and started firing (the five beer is just a metaphor, so are the guns). A lot of porn workers have been banned. Melody Kush is only one of the stories.

The Incomplete List of Legal Discrimination against Sex Workers

The girls in Melody situation are a lot. Liara Roux and Ashley Lake are doing a massive job editing a living document where all discrimination against sex workers are reported, and a big chapter is about social media porn ban. It’s called the Incomplete List of Legal Discrimination against Sex Workers, and we want to thank them for the huge effort. We’ve found the List thanks to our friends of Sharesome.com, which  is working on  a campaign to raise awareness on how social-media is slowly choking the sex workers industry, and to give a voice to those who’s accounts were deleted by mainstream social media, because remember: most of the canceled accounts wasn’t violating terms and conditions. The Adult Performers Actors Guild says Instagram has removed the accounts of more than 1,000 adult performers so far in 2019, most without explanation. If you’re one of those, get help from APAG Union, they’ve been able to help many performers till now.

This it’s not an obscure conspiracy against porn. This is an official statement by Instagram: “We have begun reducing the spread of posts that are inappropriate but do not go against Instagram’s Community Guidelines.” 

The statement doesn’t mention porn, because nobody does. The word porn doesn’t exist on the public agenda. Even if there are billion of porn consumers in the world. The rule is clear: please jerk off silently.