Pornhub and a group of sex workers are upset that Kim Kardashian gets a pass when it comes to posting nudes and racy photos on social media while the porn industry is forced to adhere to censorship restrictions.
Kardashian is known to bare it all for the camera and attracts millions of ‘likes’ with risque images such as a recent photo of her bare butt. Pornhub argues that the rules they have to abide by are more stringent, and have written a letter accusing Instagram of doing “violent and profoundly damaging” harm to their industry. They allege hypocrisy is at play, when it comes to enforcing content regulations and are pushing for change, according to The New York Post.
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Kardashian’s image of her bare butt was featured on the cover of Interview, and she blasted it all over Instagram, sparking immediate backlash. She was permitted to freely share this image without penalty, mere days after Pornhub was booted off the platform, according to The New York Post.
“Kim Kardashian has posted her fully exposed ass to her 330 million followers without any restrictive action from Instagram,” Pornhub said, according to The New York Post.
“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 sex workers and Pornhub representatives drove the message home by identifying the hypocrisy Instagram displayed by permitting this photo to remain on theirii platform.
Pornhub and disgruntled sex workers wrote a letter of complaint to a number of Meta executives, inclusive of Mark Zuckerberg and head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri. (RELATED: Kim Kardashian’s Butt Distracts From Her Utterly Disastrous Eyebrows In New Magazine)
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“While Kim’s photo continues accumulating likes and making headlines, members of the adult community run the risk of deplatforming if Instagram decides our pants look a bit too tight to meet its arbitrary and selectively-enforced ‘standards,’” they said, according to The New York Post.
“We demand an explanation and guidance as to why our accounts are continuously deleted, and why content we spend money creating in order to engage with our audience is removed, even when we do not breach any of Instagram’s rules,” Pornhub and a group of sex workers collaboratively wrote, according to The New York Post.
The powers-that-be at Instagram have pushed back against Pornhub’s claims, citing that they were forced to warn Pornhub a number of times after they broke community guidelines and regulations. They claim Pornhub repeatedly violated Instagram’s “sexual solicitation” rule, which is in place to prohibit users from leaving Instagram to visit a porn site, according to The New York Post.
Pornhub remains permanently banned from Instagram.
“We’ve permanently disabled this Instagram account for repeatedly violating our policies,” a spokesperson for Instagram said.