{"id":116396,"date":"2021-02-03T09:38:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T14:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=116396"},"modified":"2021-02-03T10:12:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:12:58","slug":"sex-workers-claim-twitter-deleting-their-accounts-twitter-denies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sex-workers-claim-twitter-deleting-their-accounts-twitter-denies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex Workers Claim Twitter Deleting Their Accounts; Twitter Denies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsex-workers-claim-twitter-deleting-their-accounts-twitter-denies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=116396&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1228994906.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Sex workers are claiming that Twitter, where they have had access to advertising their industry, is cracking down on them and making it far more difficult to ply their trade.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of an industry trade show had her account suspended in December and stated that she contacted Twitter with an appeal but never heard back. She told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-features\/sex-worker-twitter-deplatform-1118826\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a>, \u201cI wrote that we\u2019ve been a small business for 20 years and losing this account is devastating to my business and my ability to connect with my customers. I was crying. I was so upset.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her trade show \u201cisn\u2019t the only adult business that\u2019s been deplatformed by Twitter within the past two months,\u201d Rolling Stone wrote, citing Twitter\u2019s alleged suspension without notice of two other adult content platforms last week \u2014 a move that \u201cshocked many in the industry\u201d and prompted \u201csex workers on social media to panic about losing the one social platform that has openly allowed them for years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Corey Silverstein, an attorney who represents various adult industry clients, said, \u201cThe phone hasn\u2019t stopped ringing. It\u2019s just been ongoing messages of people being terrified they\u2019re going to lose everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kat Revenga, the head of marketing and events at one adult content company, said that within the last few days multiple accounts for their companies have been shut down, including Arabic and Russian accounts.&nbsp;\u201cThese accounts were used to communicate with models, and to promote their work,\u201d said Revenga. \u201cThe people most affected by this are those who use our platforms to build businesses and communicate with fans \u2026 this should frighten everyone in [the adult industry].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Twitter spokesperson told Rolling Stone that no purge of sex workers had been implemented, asserting, \u201cThere have not been changes to our sensitive media policy&nbsp;this year. Per this policy, \u2018You can share graphic violence and consensually produced adult content within your Tweets, provided that you mark this media as sensitive.\u2019 We don\u2019t have plans to change our sensitive media policy as it pertains to adult content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amberly Rothfield, an adult-industry consultant, claimed that since the current year began, Twitter has deleted 704 out of 5,000 sex workers\u2019 accounts that she monitors. Since the start of the year, Rothfield found, the deletion of sex workers\u2019 accounts has increased 82%. She found that 34 accounts are removed per day on average.<\/p>\n<p>Silverstein concluded, \u201cI don\u2019t think people really understand that there\u2019s been a massive shift where adult performers are all in business for themselves. They are their own breadwinners. They feed their families and pay their bills based on the followers they have on social media. Now they\u2019re seeing services bumped off the platform, and they\u2019re scared.\u201d He posited that if Twitter makes its restrictions on sexual content harsher, \u201cit is going to cripple these people. They can\u2019t go to Instagram. They can\u2019t go to Facebook. They can\u2019t go to Skype. You\u2019re not leaving them with many alternatives here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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