Instagram bans Pornhub account permanently – Evening Standard

Instagram has now removed Pornhub’s account from its platform, according to a Vice report, three weeks after temporarily disabling it following pressure from “anti-porn crusaders”.On Tuesday, a spokesperson for Meta, which owns Instagram, told Vice they had permanently disabled Pornhub’s Instagram account for “repeatedly violating our policies”.Instagram said it had repeatedly warned Pornhub over the past few years of posts that violated its terms of use, but did not specify the exact reason for this ban.Pornhub responded by posting a letter on Twitter noting that its account was “fully PG”, and pointing out what it saw as the uneven treatment it was receiving compared to celebrities posting nudity on Instagram.The company referred to a photo of Kim Kardashian’s “fully exposed ass” posted on her Instagram account, taken as part of a photoshoot for Interview Magazine.“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 reads.The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), a US organisation, claimed it was behind the first ban in a press release sent to journalists at the time. But Pornhub said, “Anti-porn crusaders…
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